Clinton, Trump in Final Sprint to Finish Line

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by the slimmest of margins nationally and in several key battleground states in the 2016 presidential race, according to a series of new polls Monday on the eve of Election Day.

She will also return to the state for two rallies on the Monday, a sign that the state is among the battlegrounds where her lead over Trump has dwindled in recent days. If you win a state, you take all of its electoral college votes (except in ME and Nebraska). In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for Obama.

Embarking on the final day of a furious campaign, Hillary Clinton tried Monday to at last emerge from the cloud of suspicion that has followed her campaign and close her historic bid with a call for elusive unity and hope. “The real question for us is what kind of country we want to be”. If you look closely, the only difference between this map and the Narrow Clinton map is Nevada, where Trump has somehow been leading for more than a week.

In addition to Republican-leaning states, Trump probably needs to win a few that have gone Democratic in recent elections: Hence the trips to Pennsylvania and MI (as well as Minnesota on Sunday). Winning these states – particularly Florida – can offset any potential loss in the Rust Belt in the dash towards 270 Electoral College votes that will determine the victor.

On the eve of the vote, Clinton held a widening but still close 3.2 percentage point lead over Trump in a four-way race including two fringe candidates, according to a RealClearPolitics average of national polls.

USA stock index futures rose more than 1 percent after the Federal Bureau of Investigation announcement and the US dollar also strengthened in Asian trading against major currencies.

Trump has repeatedly condemned Clinton’s “criminal scheme” and argued that she’s unfit to be president. Online political stock market PredictIt put her chances on Tuesday of capturing the White House at 80 percent, down 2 percentage points from Monday. Never, ever allow media gloom and doom scenarios to convince you your vote is unimportant. Predicting he would win, he told supporters in Sarasota that Clinton “is such a phony” and, “We’re exhausted of being led by stupid people”.

After a stop there, the 70-year-old is due to fly to rallies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, before ending with a late event in MI. Though if Trump clawed back Pennsylvania or MI from the Democrats, who have won both electoral-rich states six times in a row, North Carolina would be more expendable. Both Barack and Michelle Obama will join Clinton, with her husband and daughter, for a rally on Independence Mall in Philadelphia.

As she boarded her campaign plane in White Plains, New York for the flight to Pennsylvania, Clinton acknowledged the deep divisions in the country, and admitted that bringing it together again will require “some work”.

FBI Director James Comey notified Congress Sunday that a review of new emails connected to Clinton’s servers did not produce evidence that would warrant charges.

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He said he had received a call from Clinton to congratulate him on the win and praised her for her service and for a hard-fought campaign.

If Clinton wins, she will seek to build on Obama’s cautious but progressive legacy, including his controversial health insurance reforms.

“We choose to believe in a hopeful, inclusive, big-hearted America”, Clinton told a crowd of 33,000, the largest of her campaign.

Mr Trump joked that the travelling press were exhausted after following him to five rallies in five states and said even the cameras were sagging.

In October, his campaign was rocked by the circulation of a 2005 video in which he boasted about groping women.

While such controversies have given Clinton the edge among women and minorities, Trump enjoys solid support among non-college educated whites. Obama won the state in both 2008 and 2012.

Television networks projected Republicans would retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives, where all 435 seats were up for grabs.

Nearly every poll suggests that Hillary Clinton will win the USA presidency tomorrow.