Election Day cannot come too soon.

Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald Trump, and even her detractors predict victory.

Trump will behave badly when he loses.

Neither Clinton’s email controversies nor Trump’s alleged groping of women and professed “locker room talk” tipped the scales definitively toward the next president.

And on the day after millions of votes are tallied Nov. 8, many couples, their relatives and friends will have to patch up deep divisions, often under the same roof, prompted by a presidential contest that frustrates, worries and embarrasses them.

Those were among findings from two voter focus groups Tuesday, one in Las Vegas and another in Charlotte, N.C., in which mothers ages 54 and younger were asked about the presidential election. The swing voters were participants in the final sessions convened as part of a series sponsored by Wal-Mart and conducted by polling firms Public Opinion Strategies and Penn Schoen Berland.

“Wal-Mart Mom” focus groups of undecided and leaning voters last met in August.

The mothers in North Carolina joined their husbands or male partners Tuesday during a discussion focused on a 2016 gender chasm: couples who disagree about who would be a better president and expect to effectively checkmate one another with their ballots.

“I hate her,” Kyler, a 46-year-old white male Trump supporter from Charlotte, said of Clinton. “I’m voting against her.”

His wife, Tasha, 45, said her strong support for the former secretary of state has made her marriage feel like “the worst it’s ever been” in terms of friction and disagreements. “I don’t want to discuss it with him. I don’t want to hear anything,” she said dismally.

Tasha feels as if she has not been able to escape the conflict: The presidential candidates and their surrogates dip into North Carolina every few days, and campaign ads on radio and television are constant. The RealClearPolitics polling average shows Clinton two percentage points ahead of Trump (Libertarian candidate Gov. Gary Johnson is included in the North Carolina average, pulling in 5 percent).

The focus group of 10 Las Vegas women appeared similarly anxious Tuesday about the direction of the election and their choices. Scary, angry, worried, frustrated, and “a mess” were words they used to describe how the presidential campaign made them feel. Some said they were unsure if they would vote, or found themselves weighing whether a vote for Johnson was a wasted effort.

“The commercials, we mute it,” Blanca, a 33-year-old Trump supporter originally from El Salvador, told the group. Clinton is “a liar and our country is not safe,” the mother of four added emphatically.

In contrast, Veronica, 34, Hispanic and married and also the mother of four children, believes she will vote for Clinton. There are many things about Trump she finds objectionable, but perhaps none more than the New York businessman’s assertions that the election will be rigged against him.

“How do you say you’re going to make America great again, but you have no faith in the Democratic process?” Veronica wondered. When all the ballots are counted, “I think he’ll demand a recount,” she predicted. “He can never accept defeat at any level.”

In Nevada, Clinton has stretched out a lead since early October to nearly four points in a close race, according to the RCP average.

In both focus groups, participants were well informed about the major party nominees, but they bemoaned the name-calling and mudslinging. They said it had been difficult to sort out details about what Clinton and Trump each proposed to accomplish, if elected, and how they would do it.

Trump’s behavior and rhetoric during the campaign – positive and negative -- were simple for focus group participants to recall without prompting. But Clinton, even among her admirers in the two states, appeared to be something of a cipher. What was her message to voters? Her experience … children … families, they ventured after some thought.

A number of the Wal-Mart Moms said Trump had helped create such a personality-driven contest. If he loses, as they think he will, they wondered if the damage might be localized to him rather than have wider repercussions. But Coretta, a 45-year-old Las Vegas mother of five children who said she is uncertain how she’ll vote, believes Trump has been toxic.

“I think he’s helped guarantee that the Republican Party is finished,” she said.

As majorities of participants in the two focus groups predicted Trump would fall short, they also wondered if he could have defeated Clinton had he been less absorbed with himself.

“I hope he’s humbled by the whole thing,” said 29-year-old China, an African-American mother of three children in Las Vegas.

“We need to be encouraged to be our best, not for him to be his best,” said Nevada mom Phelicia, 40, referring to all Americans.

Some focus group couples in Charlotte said they’d arrived at their preferences for Clinton or Trump as protest votes, or as second choices (after Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders lost, and GOP Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas dropped out).

Torry, 48, an African-American who said he voted early in North Carolina for Trump, noted he had been a Sanders admirer during the primaries. His significant other, Dontressa, 43, backs Clinton with enthusiasm. The couple watched the presidential debates, but on separate TVs in different rooms of their house.

Allison, 34, the mother of three children, is white and a Trump supporter in Charlotte who also said she began the presidential contest as a Sanders backer. Her husband, Jose, who was born in Mexico and became a U.S. citizen, said he plans to vote for Clinton. Allison joked that the former secretary of state should be in jail, while her husband said Clinton should be in the White House.

“I think she’s the best candidate,” Jose explained, noting that Trump’s disparagement of Mexicans as rapists and criminals slammed a door for him.

Asked how he and his wife would resolve their different views going forward, he replied, “We’re adults. We don’t cross a line.”