Nail biting finish to US prez poll in store

Nail biting finish to US prez poll in store
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The countdown began for the most bitter and divisive presidential election in the US history, Clinton, and her running mate Tim Kaine\'s campaign received a last-minute boost by news that the FBI had found no new troublesome emails in a review of the former secretary of state\'s private server and she will not face criminal charges. 

Washington: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday scrambled to make their final pitch to voters in the closely-contested US Presidential race dogged by controversies like the Democratic nominee's email scandal and sexual assault allegations against her Republican rival.

As the countdown began for the most bitter and divisive presidential election in the US history, Clinton, and her running mate Tim Kaine's campaign received a last-minute boost by news that the FBI had found no new troublesome emails in a review of the former secretary of state's private server and she will not face criminal charges.

"Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton," FBI Director James B Comey told Congress leaders in a letter after a renewed probe into her use of private email server as secretary of state following a cache of recently discovered emails.

Seeking to become the first female president of America, Clinton relieved by the latest development will end her campaign with a rally in the battleground state of North Carolina at midnight local time.

Republican candidate Trump will close his campaign with an event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a state where he is hoping to pull off a huge surprise.

Trump called the vote on Tuesday a final chance to turn back foreign forces menacing American identity, while Clinton said the country's long journey toward equality for women and minorities was at risk of being reversed in a day's balloting.

Trump claimed that he is leading in battleground States and is headed to win the White House race, much to the surprise of the pollsters and the media. "You have to get everyone you know to the polls.

We are going to win. We are going to have one of the greatest victories of all time. This is going to be Brexit times 50," Trump told cheering supporters in Leesburg, a suburb of Washington DC in Virginia.

"I think, we are up in Colorado. We are doing very well in Nevada. Doing really well in North Carolina. I hear, we are going to do very well in the State of Virginia," he said.

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