Race narrowing as Clinton, Trump push into final weekend

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Race narrowing as Clinton, Trump push into final weekend
As the candidates jostle for supremacy, two of the biggest prizes on the electoral map, Florida and North Carolina, are now dead heats, according to RealClearPolitics poll aggregates

RALEIGH, USA – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump geared up Friday, November 4, for one final weekend to sway undecided voters and cajole supporters into turning out at the polls, slogging their way to the end of a divisive presidential campaign as the race continues to tighten.

As the candidates jostle for supremacy in the handful of battleground states that will decide Tuesday’s election, two of the biggest prizes on the electoral map, Florida and North Carolina, are now dead heats, according to RealClearPolitics poll aggregates.

Democrat Clinton has unleashed top surrogates including President Barack Obama to bolster her case, while billionaire Republican Trump deployed wife Melania to soften his image.  (READ: The first 100 days of a Trump White House: Sea change)

North Carolina was suddenly in the eye of the political storm, with the candidates frantically criss-crossing the southeastern state where they are locked at 46.4% apiece.

The candidates’ motorcades even passed one another Thursday on the tarmac at the Raleigh-Durham airport ahead of their rival rallies.

“You’ve got to get everyone you know to come out and vote,” Clinton implored supporters in Raleigh, where she was joined by her onetime primary adversary Senator Bernie Sanders and “Happy” singer Pharrell Williams. (READ: What would 100 days of a Clinton White House look like?)

“The best way to repudiate the bigotry and the bluster and the bullying and the hateful rhetoric and discrimination is to show up with the biggest turnout in American history.”

Williams, dressed in a hoodie, sought to pump up black voter turnout – crucial to Clinton’s White House aspirations – which is down in early voting in several states.

“We’re black! Beautiful! So if you’ve ever been called a minority ever in your life… go out and vote and show everybody that you’re actually really the majority,” he said.

Obama shuttled into Florida for fiery rallies aimed at turning out the Democratic base for Clinton in a must-win state for Trump, who is under pressure to snatch battleground states and even poach one or two Democratic strongholds if he is to prevail.

On Friday, Trump heads to New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania, while Clinton stumps in Ohio and Michigan. – Rappler.com

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