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Trump's last campaign speech ahead of election
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Clinton's last campaign speech ahead of election
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by Hillary Clinton via twitter 11/8/2016 12:11:33 PM -
Myla Gibson, 3, waits as her father fills out a ballot at the James Weldon Johnson school in East Harlem
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A woman arrives at a polling station at the James Weldon Johnson school in East Harlem
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First time voter Kaeli Askea poses for a selfie with her mother Erin Collins-Askea after voting at the James Weldon Johnson school in East Harlem
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Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine arrives to cast his ballot accompanied by his wife Anne Holton at the Hermitage Methodist Home polling station in Richmond, Virginia
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Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine gets an 'I voted' sticker after casting his ballot at the Hermitage Methodist Home polling station in Richmond, Virginia
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A voter casts his ballot in the U.S. election at Su Nueva Lavanderia in Chicago
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Ballot clerks Cheryl Bourassa (L) and Judy Taylor verify the ballot count before the polls open for the 2016 presidential election in Woodstock, New Hampshire. REUTERS/Mary Schwalm
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Republican Donald Trump began Election Day with a ritual call to the "Fox & Friends" morning news show. "I'm a little bit superstitious," he said. "I've won many primaries speaking to you first in the morning."Trump also waxed nostalgic about the campaign: "It's been a beautiful process. The people of this country are incredible," Trump said. However, he said later, “If I don't win, I will consider it a tremendous waste of time, energy and money.” -
Hillary Clinton arrives to vote in the presidential election at Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, New York. REUTERS/Mike Segar
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton votes in Chappaqua, New York, in hopes of becoming the country's first woman president. -
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Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in the last Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll before Election Day. The Nov. 2-6 opinion poll showed that 44 percent of likely voters supported Clinton while 39 percent supported Trump. The Reuters/Ipsos poll is conducted online in English in all 50 states. It included 2,195 people who were considered likely voters from their voting history, registration status and stated intention to vote. It has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 2 percentage points.(Reporting by Chris Kahn)
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Hillary Clinton fills out her ballot at the Douglas Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, New York. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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Vice President Joe Biden cast his ballot at a high school in Wilmington, Delaware, declaring it “a beautiful day to vote,” according to a White House pool media report.Biden, who has once weighed his own presidential bid, appeared jovial, posing for selfies and thanking poll volunteers, the pool reporter said.
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I think this is the election where the Latino community understand that they make a big difference, that they don't view themselves as a minor part of the electorate anymore. In states like Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Nevada, Colorado, all over the country Latino vote now sees that they could be a difference maker. And that is an empowering thing.
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This is how America looks right now in search
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Morning voters head to the polls. This feed will show polls in Arlington, Virginia; New York, New York; Youngstown, Ohio; Davie, Florida; and Los Angeles, California. -
A voter fills out his ballot in a living room polling place during the presidential election in Dover, Oklahoma. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
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At long last, Americans decide between Clinton and Trump
ReutersDemocrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump face the judgment of the voters on Tuesday as millions of Americans turn out on Election Day to pick the next U.S. president and end a bruising campaign that polls said favored Clinton. -
JUST IN: Polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight's final forecast of the election season gives Hillary Clinton a 71 percent chance of beating Donald Trump in the White House race.Clinton's probability of winning has gotten a 6-percentage point boost since Sunday, when the FBI said it stood by its earlier finding that no criminal charges were warranted against the candidate for her use of a private email server for government work. The issue had clouded Clinton's campaign for the past week.Our final forecast of the year just published! Clinton is a 71% favorite in polls-only, 72% in polls-plus.… https://t.co/nhyKSwbc4V9:45 AM - 08 Nov 2016
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FiveThirtyEight also said on Tuesday that Clinton has an 81 percent chance at winning the popular vote, illustrating a gap between that and the Electoral College vote. -
The day of decision: Clinton or Trump? - Reuters TV
Reuters TVVoting started as early as midnight Tuesday in New Hampshire as Americans finally get to choose the next president after a rancorous campaign: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. -
People visit the grave of women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony on election day at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. REUTERS/Adam Fenster
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Long line to vote at a polling station in Jackson Heights, Queens, in New York City.
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People wait in line to cast their ballot at one of many polling stations along 37th Avenue, Queens, one of NYC's most culturally and ethnically diverse neighborhoods.
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INSIGHT: Hillary Clinton casts her vote - Reuters TV
Reuters TVDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton casts her vote in Chappaqua, New York. -
Banks, brokers gird for Brexit-style tumult following Tuesday's election
"When the markets move, it can be difficult to put emotion at bay and stick to your plan," said Kim Hillyer, spokeswoman for TD Ameritrade.
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Did Eric Trump just break the law with a ballot photo?Donald Trump's son Eric posted a photo of his ballot this morning to show his enthusiasm. Instead, the tweet prompted questions of whether he violated New York state rules prohibiting the sharing of ballot photos.
Sigh. Eric Trump starts the day by violating NY election law by posting a photo of his filled-out ballot. https://t.co/rY6qKoaE9t10:24 AM - 08 Nov 2016- Reply
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More than a dozen states have laws on the books that bar voters from photographing their ballots or even showing their ballot to another person. A federal judge recently heard a challenge to the law, but kept the ban in place. Eric Trump deleted his tweet. -
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump casts his ballot in New York City. -
News 8 WROC Rochester is Facebook Live from Susan B. Anthony's gravestone, where locals are taking photos, leaving flowers and pasting stickers indicating that they'd voted:
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No line at this other polling station on 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, but a steady flow of voters.
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Virginia voters cast their ballots in the U.S. presidential election. -
From today's morning briefing: Election Day: You made it!:
Digit of the day: 60 percent
Reuters/Ipsos expects turnout to be 60 percent. If they're right, that would be the highest turnout since the 1968 election between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey.
Putin says Russia will follow up fast after Ukraine call with Biden
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would send ideas to Washington within a week to follow up his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on the Ukraine crisis.
