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| US election: Trump and Clinton in tight race on campaign's final day – live | US election: Trump and Clinton in tight race on campaign's final day – live |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 1.53am GMT | |
| 01:53 | |
| President Obama campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia | |
| Watch it live here: | |
| 1.52am GMT | |
| 01:52 | |
| Speaking at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, first lady Michelle Obama launches a patented tearjerker of a speech, addressing her husband’s unlikely path to the White House and exhorting the assembled thousands to vote for Hillary Clinton as his successor. | |
| “Our actions are a reflection of what behavior we hope our children will emulate,” Michelle Obama said. “That’s why Barack and I have been working so hard in this election.” | |
| Obama lauded Hillary Clinton as “a leader who takes this job seriously, someone who is truly ready to be commander in chief on day one.” | |
| “We deserve a leader who will ensure that our daughters are safe and respected, and that our sons understand that truly strong men are compassionate and kind. We deserve a leader who sees the dignity and humanity in all of us, and who will encourage us to see the better angels in one another.” | |
| “I am here tonight because I believe with all my heart and soul that Hillary Clinton is that leader!” Obama continued, to a roaring crowd. “And we need to do everything we can to get her elected president of the United States!” | |
| “If we get out and vote tomorrow, Hillary Clinton will win - but if we stay home, or if we play around with a protest vote, then Hillary’s opponent will win. period, end of story,” Obama said. | |
| “Presidential elections are breathtakingly close,” Obama continued. “Each of you has the power to swing an entire precinct for Hillary, and if we swing enough precincts, we will win this state, we will win this election, and we will continue this progress... that is the power that you have.” | |
| “You can stand up to those who seek to divide us and make us afraid. You can declare with one voice that we are always stronger together. Tomorrow, with your vote, you can say that this country has always been great - that it is the greatest country on earth,” Obama continued. “A country where the biracial son of a single mother from Hawaii and the son of a single mother from Hope, Arkansas, can both make it to the White House!” | |
| “A country where a passion,the outspoken young women determined to do all the good she can, can go on to break the highest, hardest glass ceiling and become our president! That is the power you have. And the history you can make tomorrow.” | |
| “But only if we get out and vote for Hillary Clinton.” | |
| 1.46am GMT | |
| 01:46 | |
| Calling Hillary Clinton “an inspiration to me,” first lady Michelle Obama exhorted the tens of thousands assembled in Philadelphia to vote for Hillary Clinton as her husband’s successor. | |
| “This is truly an emotional day for me, for so many reasons,” Obama said. “Tomorrow we have the chance to elect someone who is singularly qualified to be our president - our friend, Hillary Clinton!” | |
| “She is a phenomenal woman who has devoted her life to helping others - kids in crumbling schools, families struggling to get by, women who need a voice,” Obama continued. “Hillary is the woman we want on our side because she never gives up, she never quits, she refuses to ever be knocked down, pushed around or counted out.” | |
| “And in just a few hours, we have the chance to make her our next president.” | |
| “Speaking here tonight is perhaps the last and most important thing that I can do for my country as first lady.” | |
| 1.43am GMT | |
| 01:43 | |
| First lady Michelle Obama speaks in Philadelphia | |
| Watch it live here: | |
| 1.43am GMT | |
| 01:43 | |
| Former president Bill Clinton, speaking to a massive rally on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, | |
| “This country began here. Right here! With people who pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor to form a more perfect union. In other words, we’re stronger together,” Clinton said, referring to wife Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan. | |
| “Tomorrow the American people are gonna be given a chance, one more time, to form a more perfect union,” Clinton continued. “I think you know what the answer’s gonna be, and I think that all of us owe a great debt of gratitude to the president, the first lady, the administration of Barack Obama!” | |
| 1.39am GMT | |
| 01:39 | |
| Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, speaking to a massive pro-Hillary Clinton rally on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, called the assembled crowd “extraordinary.” | |
| “I am so fiercely, ridiculously proud of my mom, and I am unapologetically biased towards her,” Clinton said, “and I hope that many of you now understand why, after this campaign, this is true for me.” | |
| “I cannot wait to cast my vote for her tomorrow, and I like to think I’m the most excited person here - but my dad might be even a little bit more excited than I am.” | |
| Chelsea Clinton then introduces her father, former president Bill Clinton. | |
| 1.37am GMT | |
| 01:37 | |
| Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton campaign at massive rally in Philadelphia | |
| Watch it live here: | |
| 1.31am GMT | |
| 01:31 | |
| A poll commissioned by the conservative Breitbart News website shows Hillary Clinton leading in every swing state: | |
| Final Gravis/Breitbart (R) PollNMClinton +8Virginia/MichiganClinton +5NevadaClinton +2Florida/NCHRC +1https://t.co/FiFODbUAla | |
| 1.26am GMT | |
| 01:26 | |
| Donald Trump ally swears vigilante poll watchers will not target voters by race | |
| Lois Beckett | |
| After local Democratic parties in six battleground states filed lawsuits against Trump adviser Roger Stone’s voter fraud monitoring project, the Republican operative released new rules for volunteer monitors and pledged to a Nevada judge that he “will not target voters based on their race”. | |
| Roger Stone, an informal Trump adviser, also told the Guardian on Monday that he was concerned that the Republican party in Ohio would try to manipulate votes to undermine Trump, and said that the Stop the Steal fraud prevention project was a “neutral process”. | |
| Stone had announced the Stop the Steal voter fraud prevention project to the Guardian in late October. He said the effort was recruiting volunteers to conduct exit polls in nine Democrat-leaning cities in swing states in order to check for “election theft” via hacked or compromised voting machines. The cities he listed then – Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Fort Lauderdale, Charlotte, Richmond and Fayetteville – had large minority voting populations. | |
| In response, local Democratic parties in six battleground states filed lawsuits against Stone, Stop the Steal, and Republican parties, alleging broad efforts to intimidate minority voters. | |
| The new guidelines for the Stop the Steal volunteers nationwide come as another federal judge expressed skepticism that Democrats had any proof that the Trump campaign, local Republican parties, Stone and Stop the Steal were “conspiring to threaten, intimidate, and thereby prevent minority voters in urban neighborhoods from voting”, as Democrats had alleged in multiple lawsuits. | |
| In Philadelphia, US district judge Paul Diamond denied Democrats’ request for a temporary restraining order on voter fraud prevention activities on Monday, ruling that Democrats had failed to make “any credible showing” that voters’ rights were in jeopardy. The judge slammed the local Democratic party for “belated, inflammatory allegations that appear intended to generate only heat, not light”. | |
| The supreme court on Monday also denied a request to restore a sweeping temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Ohio last week, which had briefly enjoined the Trump campaign, Stone, and Stop the Steal, as well as the Clinton campaign, from engaging in a variety of voter intimidation behaviors. A panel of sixth circuit judges had quickly stayed the order, which a leading election law expert had dubbed “likely unconstitutionally vague”. | |
| 1.18am GMT | 1.18am GMT |
| 01:18 | 01:18 |
| Donald Trump campaign creates 'voter assistance hotline' | Donald Trump campaign creates 'voter assistance hotline' |
| From an email sent to supporters this evening: | From an email sent to supporters this evening: |
| Thank you again for supporting Donald Trump for President. Just a reminder that if you encounter any problems casting a ballot or if you witness any disruptions at a polling location please call our Voter Assistance Hotline at (844) 332-2016. You can also report any of these incidents on-line at: | Thank you again for supporting Donald Trump for President. Just a reminder that if you encounter any problems casting a ballot or if you witness any disruptions at a polling location please call our Voter Assistance Hotline at (844) 332-2016. You can also report any of these incidents on-line at: |
| https://www.donaldjtrump.com/landing/election-issue | https://www.donaldjtrump.com/landing/election-issue |
| Team Trump-Pence | Team Trump-Pence |
| 1.16am GMT | 1.16am GMT |
| 01:16 | 01:16 |
| The crowd in Philadelphia is unlike anything we’ve ever seen at a Clinton event during this campaign. | The crowd in Philadelphia is unlike anything we’ve ever seen at a Clinton event during this campaign. |
| 1.08am GMT | 1.08am GMT |
| 01:08 | 01:08 |
| Madonna sang Imagine in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park in a pop-up concert on Hillary Clinton’s behalf: | Madonna sang Imagine in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park in a pop-up concert on Hillary Clinton’s behalf: |
| Guys Madonna just sang Imagine and I was HERE for it pic.twitter.com/8Wr3fw2kzO | Guys Madonna just sang Imagine and I was HERE for it pic.twitter.com/8Wr3fw2kzO |
| 12.54am GMT | 12.54am GMT |
| 00:54 | 00:54 |
| Curt Schilling, who plans to run for the US Senate in 2018: | Curt Schilling, who plans to run for the US Senate in 2018: |
| Ok, so much awesome here... pic.twitter.com/qx5rbW2cop | Ok, so much awesome here... pic.twitter.com/qx5rbW2cop |