U.S. elections: Clinton casts vote, Trump confident of winning ‘lots of states’

In an Election Day interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Donald Trump’s son said that “all we want is a fair fight, not just for this election but for all elections”. Additional states leaning Democratic this year are: Colorado (9 electoral votes), New Mexico (5), Nevada (6) and Virginia (13).

MI and its 16 electoral votes were seen as safe for Clinton until a few days ago.

In Nevada, where more than three-fourths of expected ballots have been cast, Democrats led 42 percent to 36 percent.

That year Obama and Romney each won five votes. It’s fantastic that that’s possible, but it is because of how demography has changed the map. Trump insists his outsider campaign represents America’s last chance to drive out a corrupt political establishment that has turned its back on hard-working Americans. Meanwhile, looking at other toss-ups, states that President Obama carried which will likely turn red are Iowa and Ohio.

Hillary Clinton has cast her ballot in NY as her rival for the presidency Donald Trump said he would see a defeat as a “tremendous waste of time”.

In the campaign’s final hours, the Democrat was buoyed by FBI Director James Comey’s weekend announcement that he would not recommend criminal charges against her following a new email review.

Clinton plans to end her campaign by greeting supporters at the Westchester airport, in NY, where she was expected to land after 3 a.m. EST. It’s very possible she wins all three. But it’s still a 50-50 state in public polling. Will it be the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton? It’s been within the polling margin of error, though Trump seems to have a slight edge.

A state which Obama narrowly won twice, Florida, looks to be once again be a state where it will be a nail-biter. Trump calls his opponent “Crooked Hillary” for her use of a private email server as secretary of state and for her complicated ties to the Clinton Foundation run by her husband. Overnight, Clinton’s campaign plane landed around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in White Plains after a whirlwind final day of campaigning. The Clinton campaign refers to it as its “Roadblock State”.

North Carolina, one of the first states to report results on Tuesday night, might provide clues to the outcome.

In Florida alone, Hispanic participation was up by more than 453,000 votes, almost doubling the 2012 level. It is also a state where higher Hispanic turnout could tip the result in Clinton’s favour. Everything starts for him in Florida. He’d need to win all of the toss-ups, and he’d still be 10 electoral votes short. Clinton held a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday, and Trump did so on Monday.

Early voting has already thrown up a number of interesting trends that vary from state to state. If he wins Florida, Trump still must win both OH and MI or hope for an upset in Pennsylvania.

An early indicator of the strength of each candidate could come in North Carolina and Florida, two must-win states for Trump that have been the subject of frantic last-minute efforts by both the Republican and Democratic campaigns. In 2008 and 2012, major networks and news organizations projected a victory for President Barack Obama on the early side – at around 11:00 p.m. or shortly thereafter, once polls had closed on the West Coast and blue states like California could be added to Mr. Obama’s electoral vote totals.