You heard Tim kaine talk about those checkmate states for Hillary Clinton.
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Trump capped his incendiary campaign with a breakneck tour of battlegrounds, including some Rust Belt states where he has made a late push in recent days, eyeing traditionally Democratic strongholds like MI and Wisconsin.
However, the complicated electoral system means that winning the popular vote will not necessarily lead to victory.
Though the quintessential NY hotel has hosted many high-profile events, as well as past presidents, the intimate ballroom setting diverges from Trump’s usually large rallies.
Polls close in California, a Democrat state with 55 electoral college votes, more than any other state, as well as Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. More than 42 million ballots have already been cast.
U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton attend campaign rallies in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, October 10, 2016 and Manchester, New Hampshire U.S., October 24, 2016. It’s awesome that that’s possible, but it is because of how demography has changed the map.
President Barack Obama fired up a crowd in Ann Arbor as he campaigned for Clinton. They were encouraged by the strong Latino turnout in Florida and felt they took a strong lead in MI and Pennsylvania into Election Day, when the bulk of votes are cast in those states.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, right, greets supporters outside Douglas G. Grafflin School in Chappaqua, N.Y., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, after voting.
The key question for Clinton is whether her “blue wall” of Democratic-leaning states on the Great Lakes – Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – will hold.
“And I will do the very best I can if I’m fortunate enough to win today”. Even in Nevada there is a high proportion of early voting, seen to favour Clinton.
Trump has targeted all three, but Clinton has consistently led polls in all three states. After the 2012 race, the RNC warned that the party needed to do more to court Latino voters.
He also slammed rapper Jay Z, saying “the language he used” was awful during Clinton’s concert in OH last Friday.
Trump seemed sensitive to the fact that his final 48 hours on the campaign trail lacked the celebrity star power drawn to Clinton, who was accompanied by musicians like Jay Z and Beyonce and campaigned in Philadelphia on Monday night with the rock legend Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. The Obama campaign put even more emphasis on data science in 2008, and in many ways it was that campaign that wrote the book on modern data-driven campaigning.
Virginia polls also close at 7 p.m., with OH and North Carolina following half an hour later and Pennsylvania at 8 p.m. Everything starts for him in Florida.
At the same time, Trump must hold onto the traditionally Republican state of Arizona, where the race has drawn close, and hope that independent candidate Evan McMullin does not claim another Republican bastion, Utah.
For Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, this is a ghost of elections past. You need to have that something extra to win toughly contested primaries to then battle it out for the White House residency for the next four years.
“Trump has zero path if he loses both North Carolina and Florida”. So he’d need to win a different state leaning Democratic. The most likely area ripe to his anti-trade message where he could turn out disaffected blue-collar white voters is in the Industrial North. If he wins Florida, Trump still must win both OH and MI or hope for an upset in Pennsylvania.
“The choice in this election could not be clearer”, Clinton said to a capacity crowd of 4,600 near Grand Rapids, Michigan. With that one vote, Romney tied with Johnson in Dixville Notch.
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The GOP nominee says at a Manchester, New Hampshire, rally that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady called him today to say he’d voted for him. First of all, if you look at the ABC rate ratings he has to go through and win every single one of the states that we have as toss-up states.
