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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) | |
| 6.31am GMT | |
| 06:31 | |
| You didn’t even have to hang around for hours waiting for a rally to start to catch a celebrity endorsement performance in the closing stretch of the campaign. | |
| THIS IS LIKE AN ACTUAL PRAYER pic.twitter.com/jKVFQzNZTv | |
| Madonna pitched up in Washington Square Park, NYC, to urge support for Clinton (“Save this country, vote for Hillary Clinton!”) and express herself – sorry – about Trump (“No way, motherfucker”). | |
| The set list: | |
| 6.21am GMT | |
| 06:21 | |
| Tom Phillips | |
| China’s official news agency has just put out its verdict on the “mud-slinging, insult-driven and scandal-ridden” US election – and it isn’t pretty. | |
| The election, it says, shows “the darkest side of the political system [that] Washington intends to impose on the rest of the globe”. | |
| Neither of the “very unscrupulous and incoherent” candidates comes out well from Xinhua’s take on the race for the White House. It describes them as “two of the least desirable candidates in perhaps the whole history of the US electoral politics”. | |
| Xinhua says Trump is unlikely to deliver change while Clinton “has to hide or twist a long list of inconvenient facts she does not want the public to know”. | |
| “The ballots are now being cast, and whatever the results might be, only troubles seem to be guaranteed, both for the United States and for the world,” it concludes. | |
| Many people say it’s time to “pick your own poison.” Do you think the U.S. voters really have to choose between the lesser of the two evils? | |
| 6.15am GMT | |
| 06:15 | |
| A very good point from a reader below the line: | |
| (Don’t vote tomorrow! Vote today. Trust me on this.) | |
| Those on the West coast should not trust you on this! | |
| Lets not have another national US election solely in EST, eh? | |
| Vote at whatever point your part of the US reaches Tuesday 8 November! | |
| 6.11am GMT | |
| 06:11 | |
| Clinton wraps up with a “let’s go vote”. | |
| It’s 1.10am ET. And – probably, because this election campaign has not been a great one for safe predictions – that’s the last rallying cry we’ll hear from either candidate this side of the results. | |
| 6.09am GMT | |
| 06:09 | |
| Trump is done. “Go to bed!” he tells his crowd. | |
| Clinton is still going and so gets the last word. Some of them are about Lady Gaga again. | |
| 6.05am GMT | |
| 06:05 | |
| Trump: | |
| You have one magnificent chance to beat this corrupt, rigged system. | |
| Clinton: | |
| It’s not just my name or Donald Trump’s name on the ballot – it’s the kind of country we want. | |
| 6.03am GMT | |
| 06:03 | |
| Back to Clinton, who is talking about democracy, women’s rights, workers’ rights. | |
| And tomorrow we face a test, she says. (Technically, Secretary Clinton, it’s today. But who’s counting.) | |
| You have to vote tomorrow! | |
| (Don’t vote tomorrow! Vote today. Trust me on this.) | |
| *Edit: yes, I had only the Clinton crowd in North Carolina in mind and not, say, the huge part of America that hadn’t passed midnight yet. Apologies. Vote tomorrow! | |
| Updated | |
| at 6.18am GMT | |
| 6.01am GMT | |
| 06:01 | |
| Trump: | |
| And yes, we will build a great, great wall … Who is going to pay for the wall? | |
| Mexico. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to pay for it. | |
| (What do you think are the chances that Mexico has not yet heard of this plan?) | |
| 5.58am GMT | 5.58am GMT |
| 05:58 | 05:58 |
| Trump is back on a familiar theme: inner cities. | Trump is back on a familiar theme: inner cities. |
| You walk to the store for a loaf of bread, you get shot. | You walk to the store for a loaf of bread, you get shot. |
| And then segues straight into another favourite of his: Syrian refugees. (Boos from the crowd.) | And then segues straight into another favourite of his: Syrian refugees. (Boos from the crowd.) |
| Her plan will import generations of terrorism … into your schools and throughout your communities. | Her plan will import generations of terrorism … into your schools and throughout your communities. |
| 5.54am GMT | 5.54am GMT |
| 05:54 | 05:54 |
| Switching to Hillary Clinton for a moment now, as she steps up to the podium for what is also her final campaign rally. In Raleigh. | Switching to Hillary Clinton for a moment now, as she steps up to the podium for what is also her final campaign rally. In Raleigh. |
| It’s 12.52am. “This is sure worth staying up for,” she says. | It’s 12.52am. “This is sure worth staying up for,” she says. |
| She can’t imagine a better way to end the campaign than seeing this crowd and watching Lady Gaga, “whose range goes from A-Z and beyond”, she says. | She can’t imagine a better way to end the campaign than seeing this crowd and watching Lady Gaga, “whose range goes from A-Z and beyond”, she says. |
| That’s what I want for the people of America: the joy, the passion! | That’s what I want for the people of America: the joy, the passion! |
| 5.52am GMT | 5.52am GMT |
| 05:52 | 05:52 |
| More Trump on Mexico. It’s car plants, this time, rather than walls. | More Trump on Mexico. It’s car plants, this time, rather than walls. |
| They take our money, they take our jobs, they build their plants, they build their factories. We end up with unemployment and drugs. | They take our money, they take our jobs, they build their plants, they build their factories. We end up with unemployment and drugs. |
| “It’s so easy” to fix, he says. He will “pick up the phone myself … I love it” to tell company executives they’ll have to pay a 35% tax to sell their products back to US consumers. | “It’s so easy” to fix, he says. He will “pick up the phone myself … I love it” to tell company executives they’ll have to pay a 35% tax to sell their products back to US consumers. |
| 5.48am GMT | 5.48am GMT |
| 05:48 | 05:48 |
| Hillary Clinton is on stage in Raleigh now, alongside Bill and Chelsea, who takes the podium first. | Hillary Clinton is on stage in Raleigh now, alongside Bill and Chelsea, who takes the podium first. |
| Meanwhile Trump is telling his crowd, multiple times: “She’s not going to be able to do the job.” This speech has focused very heavily on factories, car plants and jobs. And Mexico. There are going to be consequences, he says. “It’s so simple to solve.” | Meanwhile Trump is telling his crowd, multiple times: “She’s not going to be able to do the job.” This speech has focused very heavily on factories, car plants and jobs. And Mexico. There are going to be consequences, he says. “It’s so simple to solve.” |
| 5.43am GMT | 5.43am GMT |
| 05:43 | 05:43 |
| Flipping back to Trump: he’s telling the crowd to go to sleep “for a couple of hours” then vote and go to work: | Flipping back to Trump: he’s telling the crowd to go to sleep “for a couple of hours” then vote and go to work: |
| I know my Michigan people. I have so many friends here. They work! | I know my Michigan people. I have so many friends here. They work! |
| 5.42am GMT | 5.42am GMT |
| 05:42 | 05:42 |
| Gaga is singing again and this time Jon Bon Jovi is too. They are Living on a Prayer. | Gaga is singing again and this time Jon Bon Jovi is too. They are Living on a Prayer. |
| 5.38am GMT | 5.38am GMT |
| 05:38 | 05:38 |
| It’s hard to believe we started a year and a half ago, Trump tells the crowd. | It’s hard to believe we started a year and a half ago, Trump tells the crowd. |
| (It is indeed.) | (It is indeed.) |
| Now we have one flawed candidate left to beat. | Now we have one flawed candidate left to beat. |
| He promises to return to Michigan “a lot” if he wins. | He promises to return to Michigan “a lot” if he wins. |
| (Meanwhile, in Raleigh, Lady Gaga has stopped singing but has donned a hat.) | (Meanwhile, in Raleigh, Lady Gaga has stopped singing but has donned a hat.) |
| 5.34am GMT | 5.34am GMT |
| 05:34 | 05:34 |
| We don’t need Jay-Z or Beyoncé or Jon Bon Jovi or Lady Gaga, Trump says. (He doesn’t mention Springsteen. Perhaps he’d have liked to have had Springsteen.) | We don’t need Jay-Z or Beyoncé or Jon Bon Jovi or Lady Gaga, Trump says. (He doesn’t mention Springsteen. Perhaps he’d have liked to have had Springsteen.) |
| “We’re up in Florida,” he says. “Today we’re going to win back the great state of Michigan and we are going to take back the White House.” | “We’re up in Florida,” he says. “Today we’re going to win back the great state of Michigan and we are going to take back the White House.” |