A Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation poll gave Clinton a 90 percent chance of defeating Trump and said she was on track to win 303 Electoral College votes out of 270 needed, to Trump’s 235. Alaska, where polls close at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, brings up the rear.
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Any combination of two losses in the three states of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania would nearly assuredly result in a Clinton victory.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rallied several thousands of supporters during a blitz of locations in five states Monday, including at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, where he made a final pitch to battleground North Carolina the day before the election.
Trump told the audience he would not be pleased with anything less than a victory on Tuesday and urged the audience to consider the possibilities of his presidency. He has to not only hold all the GOP-leaning states, but also virtually sweep the close races.
“America, I’m betting on you one more time, ” Obama said. “It would help if he could grab a state not thought to be close”.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice has stated that she will cast her vote for Trump on the election day. Let’s look at the Iowa caucus. All times are Pacific Standard Time.
Trump has been full of surprises since he began his campaign a year ago. Tim Kaine as her running mate.
It is true that enthusiasm among key Democratic voting groups is down.
Trump’s final event at a local convention center was surprisingly staid, with none of the theatrics of an earlier rally in a packed arena in New Hampshire that featured laser lights and smoke machines. “Because for almost eight years they lead us with grace, strength, brilliance and whole lot of cool”, Clinton said.
She agreed that Latino voters would play a decisively important role to determine the fate of two candidates. Trump also added a stopover visit in New Hampshire, a state that the Associated Press on November 7 said had moved from “leaning Democratic to a toss-up”. Each made clear what a despicable, untrustworthy human being the target was, and how much we need to fear the frightful prospect of their election. She was closing out her campaigning with a midnight rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. Richard Burr and Democrat Deborah Ross could show which way the state is swinging. He will hold five rallies in a day, jetting from Florida to North Carolina to Pennsylvania to New Hampshire and then to MI.
“We know enough about my opponent, we know who he is”, Clinton said as she addressed the crowd of 33,000, her largest of the campaign.
Roughly 45 percent of the electorate are non-college educated white, the core of Trump’s base, noted Brookings Institution demographer William Frey.
Trump and Clinton fought fiercely over Florida, a big prize.
Political junkies also will be watching ME, which along with Nebraska awards some of its electoral votes by congressional district. For Trump to win, he will have to take most of those states.
At the same time, Trump’ s wife Melania, an immigrant from Slovenia, has hit the campaign trail to make the argument that Trump is only against illegal immigration but supports legal immigrants, as Trump has made many comments perceived by the public to be anti-immigrant. “Republicans won this state easily”. Pat Toomey locked in a tight contest with Democrat Katie McGinty.
That electoral math gives the Democrats a head start.
MI is also one to watch.
Clinton has been forced to shore up sliding support in Colorado, Michigan and even New Mexico. After all, if one candidate or the other wins this country is doomed. “I’m not sure how much more data we’re really expecting”, Silver notes, observing that “most of it will probably just be state and national tracking polls that run one last update”.
If Trump is in a position to win after Arizona, he could still be tripped up by Utah, where McMullin has remained a contender to the end.
Trump’s win relies on an unlikely combination of results.
10 p.m.: The last state to report will be Alaska.
Earlier, Mrs Clinton was upbeat as she boarded her jet to Pittsburgh – but she admitted she would have her work cut out to fix the damage done by a bitterly-fought campaign if she can convert her slender poll lead into a win.
She asks, “What will we vote for, not just against?”
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If there ever was a race where every vote is going to count – this is it-and nobody skipped a beat this weekend.
