FALL RIVER — Roughly 80 days remain until November’s presidential election, and there’s a general consensus amongst the Spindle City: people are fed up.

They’re worn out by the mudslinging Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are perpetually engaged in, perturbed by speeches that seldom address certain issues and tired of scandals emerging on a weekly basis.

Linger around Government Center or the Justice Center long enough, and a woman tells you, ‘Trust me, you don’t want to hear my thoughts.’ A man effuses a passionate opinion on foreign policy, only to withhold his name. A different woman even says, ‘I stopped tuning in a long time ago.’ Those who talk on record, though, are unanimously against the Trump campaign’s tone.

“The Republicans have been hijacked by Trump who has capitalized on their biggest worry: fear,” said Michael Suneson, a 64-year-old from Taunton who’s a lifelong Democrat. “It’s, ‘You have to be afraid, and I’m the only one who can help you.’ The only people that really buy it are people along the Mississippi River, and any working class guys who votes for Trump has to be completely out of his mind.”

The fear Suneson alluded to often centers around rhetoric related to radical Islamic terrorism and gun control, two issues on which the candidates are polarized. The general sentiment, however, is Trump spends too much time on virulent topics and hasn’t laid out sufficient enough plans for change.

People, too, concede that Clinton has her own baggage, especially when it comes to trust. They reference the Benghazi and email server scandals, and express that Clinton might just end up being the lesser of two evils. Stephen Chilson, a 53-year-old from Cape Cod, said such a political climate reflects a sad state of affairs.

“You don’t hear enough about the issues, you just hear about the jabs going back and forth between Hillary and Donald,” Chilson, who is an undecided voter, said. “What about the issues of our world, of our nation, of our economy and homelessness and welfare? All you hear about is fighting terrorism and that’s all well and good, but they should be focusing elsewhere.”

As campaigns wear on and set their strategies, the fact remains that Massachusetts, home to 11 electoral college votes, historically leans towards Democratic candidates. The tendency is so extreme that the commonwealth last voted for a Republican in the 1984 election when GOP candidate Ronald Reagan ultimately won the White House. Nonetheless, following the Super Tuesday primaries back in March, a New York Times article labeled Fall River as part of “Trump Country,” with 66.2 percent of Republicans voting in favor of the business mogul.

While there’s certainly a pro-Trump camp along the SouthCoast, early projections from FiveThirtyEight.com have Clinton’s chance at victory in Massachusetts as 99.4 certain. That dichotomy is reflected in Steve Joseph, a 39-year-old from Swansea who agrees with some of Trump’s policies, but is second guessing himself now.

“I just think Donald Trump is making it like a reality show where people are leaning far closer to Clinton each and every day,” Joseph said. “Anytime Trump goes and debates, he just character assassinates everyone without any logical thoughts or assertions.”

Such distaste for the political establishment only naturally raises the question of if not Trump or Clinton, then who? Third party candidates, possibly. Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party will be on the ballot, and some polls forecast the latter as receiving upwards of 15 percent of the vote.

Their mere presence should influence the election’s outcome, but Suneson hoped people think twice before casting outside what’s traditionally a two-party system. After all, he said, Ralph Nader ran on the Green Party ticket in 2000 and arguably led to George W. Bush being elected over Al Gore.

“What are people going to do? Are they really going to go vote for Bill Weld and Gary Johnson who don’t have a shot at winning?,” Suneson posed. “When those votes are siphoned off, maybe it hurts Hillary and helps Trump, but does that really make America great again?”

References to slogans aside, there is little doubt that the 2016 presidential election has been one of derision and fervid stances. Over the next three months, though, the American people will settle on who they believe is right to lead their country into the next decade.

And if history has any say, local voting booths likely will turn blue in favor of Clinton. Perhaps most bluntly, Lynn a 64-year-old Fall River woman who didn’t want her last name published, said “something just needs to be done.”

“This country isn’t in a good place, and if we don’t start taking action we’re going to have a serious problem here,” she added.