Clinton has 90 percent chance of winning: Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation

Wall Street stocks jumped more than 2 per cent on Monday as global markets rallied after the Federal Bureau of Investigation cleared United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in an email probe.

Trump will inherit an anxious nation, deeply divided by economic and educational opportunities, race and culture. They’ll preside over an economy that is improving but still leaving many behind, and a military less extended overseas than eight years ago, but grappling with new terror threats. The hyperventilating from Republican nominee Donald J. Trump aside, it could not be clearer that Clinton’s e-mail practices do not disqualify her for the presidency, then or now.

In a posting on Twitter, Clinton acknowledged a battle that was unexpectedly tight given her edge in opinion polls going into Election Day.

During the campaign’s final days, candidates embarked on one their last tours of battleground states, presenting their closing arguments to tired voters deeply divided along racial, economic and gender lines.

Quinnipiac University released polls in Florida and North Carolina – two states where Clinton and Trump have been locked in tight races that could help decide the victor – show Clinton ahead by 1 point in Florida and 2 points in North Carolina. The New York businessman says the government has betrayed American workers with “open borders” immigration policies and trade deals he claims have shipped US industrial jobs overseas.

Voters on Tuesday are also electing candidates for 34 seats in the 100-member Senate and the entire 435-member House of Representatives, as well as deciding on state ballot initiatives around the country. Clinton was expected to greet one more crowd in the early hours of Tuesday morning when her campaign plane lands in suburban NY.

The GOP nominee entered the final full day of campaigning amid news Sunday that the FBI, even after reviewing new material, has closed its investigation into Clinton’s use of private email during her years in the State Department, a decision the Republican candidate blasted.

Trump told voters at an evening rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, they had one question facing them at the ballot box on Tuesday.

Clinton, whose running mate is U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, was joined in Philadelphia on Monday by Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, along with singers Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen.

There is already considerable evidence, based on futures movement observed during the presidential debates, that investors are more comfortable with Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office than they are with Trump.

“I think I have some work to do to bring the country together”, she acknowledged as she boarded her plane for her last battleground tour.

The bureau has been further roiled by leaks that hint at discord over the handling of a separate inquiry involving the Clinton Foundation and agents from the NY field office, the FBI’s largest. In his rallies, Trump was sounding bitter and all but defeated. As he surveyed a crowd in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he declared: “It’s been a long journey”.

So-called safe haven assets, which had been rallying in recent days as Trump briefly narrowed the gap in the polls, were selling off as investors moved back into stocks and other assets that will benefit from a Clinton win.

“Or honestly, we’ve all wasted our time”. “We have to win”.

In the end, though, this was not much about Mrs Clinton at all.

“He talks about the rigged corrupt system not working for the common man”, she said. That number represents more than half of the roughly 42.5 million people who had cast votes by Monday afternoon, according to Associated Press data.

But this election shouldn’t be close – and probably wouldn’t be, in my view, if Comey had not so egregiously mishandled the email affair.

Clinton was bolstered on the campaign trail by President Barack Obama, who spoke at the University of MI in Ann Arbor, urging young people who supported him in 2008 and 2012 to do the same for Clinton.

In Florida alone, Hispanic participation is up by more than 453,000 votes, almost doubling the 2012 level.

Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie downplayed the impact of increased Hispanic participation, telling reporters on a conference call, “We feel that we’re going to get a good share of those votes”.

“Our secret weapon is the American people who are saying, ‘Enough is enough, ‘” vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said on Fox News Sunday’. She planned to campaign with Cavaliers star LeBron James in Cleveland, and rally voters in Manchester with Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father whose indictment of Trump delivered emotional high point for Democrats.