HENDERSON, Nevada — Donald Trump pledged that his appeal to working-class whites would put new states in play, opening an electoral path to 270 votes that ran through the Rust Belt. But with five weeks to go and new polling showing Pennsylvania and Michigan out of reach and Hillary Clinton eating into his lead in Ohio, the Republican nominee is blazing a trail across the West. 
 
 Indeed, for all his talk of being a different kind of Republican, Trump’s hopes for victory are not much different from Mitt Romney’s four years ago, or what Jeb Bush’s or Marco Rubio’s might have been: a narrow path that relies on success out West, a new national bellwether marked by a growing Hispanic population. 
 
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 In recognition of the region’s electoral importance, the GOP establishment in 2013 pushed for an embrace of immigration reform. Of course, that failed and prompted a backlash from an angry conservative base that has propelled Trump, who launched his campaign by declaring Mexicans to be “rapists” and continues to punctuate his rallies with the exclamation that he will build a wall along the border. 
 
 “The path to 270 goes through all the same states as it did in 2012 and 2008,” said Katie Packer, who was Romney’s deputy campaign manager four years ago. “Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania aren't really even swing states. The math still comes down to suburban women and Latino voters.” 
 
 Trump on Wednesday finished a three-day swing through Colorado, Arizona and Nevada, drawing large crowds of mostly white voters. On Monday, Trump rallied up and down Colorado’s Front Range. Before a raucous crowd of 7,000 people inside an arena in Loveland, he drew loud cheers when he promised he would win the state — as he did before 2,000 people in Pueblo, a rundown, post-industrial town and longtime Democratic stronghold where economic anxieties are pushing voters toward Trump. 
 
 But the bluster doesn’t erase what’s an increasingly dim political reality in Colorado. And indeed, when this week’s three-day Western swing was planned late last month, the West seemed far more winnable for Trump than it does after a bad first debate and subsequent days of self-destructive behavior. 
 
 Two post-debate polls of likely Colorado voters this week showed Clinton leading Trump by 11 points overall — and by 17 points with voters in the state’s two traditional swing counties, Arapahoe and Jefferson, which include the bulk of the population-heavy Denver suburbs. “This is her high-water mark right now,” said a GOP operative whose private polling showed Clinton at her highest point all year. 
 
 In Arizona, which has voted for one Democratic presidential nominee since 1952, Trump’s lead is down to less than 2 points, according to the RealClearPolitics average. Trump’s decision to sandwich a rally in Prescott — the reddest part of the state — between longer swings through Nevada and Colorado served as an indisputable sign that the GOP nominee is on the defensive in what’s normally not considered to be a swing state, and fighting uphill battles in those that are. 
 
 And in Nevada, where Trump held two rallies Wednesday, the three polls taken following last week’s first debate all showed Clinton ahead — one, by as much as 6 points. At his evening rally in Reno, Trump mocked politicians for mispronouncing "Nevada" while he was botching the pronunciation himself. 
 
 “Evidence is beginning to pile up to indicate that her ground game is hitting its goals, so Trump isn't going to have any margin for error,” said Packer, who ran an anti-Trump super PAC during the primaries in an effort to derail the eventual nominee. “Unfortunately, his campaign is a constant stream of errors. We knew from Day One that his record and rhetoric with Latinos was going to make him toxic with that voting group. That's why we sent up the warning signs back in the spring.” 
 
 Barring a bad debate or major mistake by Clinton, Trump at this point may no longer control his own electoral destiny, which is more likely to be determined in these Western states — and other battlegrounds beyond — by Clinton’s ability to motivate and turn out the Obama coalition and whether the Libertarian nominee, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, can play spoiler in his home state and Colorado. 
 
 Clinton’s decisive debate performance last week appears to have solidified her base and brought a good chunk of previously undecided Colorado voters into her camp. But Johnson is continuing to poll close to the 10 percent mark, which concerns Clinton operatives in the state. 
 
 “There has been almost an edge of panic in the voice of longtime Democratic operatives in the state recognizing that Hillary Clinton is not drawing the kid of enthusiastic support from millennials, Hispanics, African-Americans and even women. If these folks stay home, they're in real trouble,” said Ryan Call, a former Colorado GOP chairman. 
 
 Clinton’s campaign pulled its ads off Colorado’s television airwaves in late August, confident that Trump couldn’t compete in a state that has been trending blue thanks to its growing Hispanic population — roughly 15 percent of the voters in 2012 — and an influx of educated, urbane millennials. But in mid-September, Trump and Clinton appeared to be in a virtual tie as younger voters lukewarm on both candidates flocked to the pro-marijuana Libertarian candidate, Johnson. 
 
 Based on public and private polling, Trump is consistently about 10 points below where Romney was with millennials at the same point in 2012, but Clinton is consistently polling about 25 points lower than President Barack Obama was with the same group. 
 
 “Millennial voters are rejecting both major parties at an unprecedented rate in Colorado, and it's hurting Hillary Clinton more than Donald Trump,” said Kelly Maher, a GOP operative in the state. 
 
 Although Clinton’s debate performance has eased some concerns, her Colorado-based campaign staffers are privately frustrated that Brooklyn sees the state as a lower priority for resources. But a high-ranking Clinton campaign official did concede privately that New Mexico — specifically, Johnson’s high levels of support there — is a growing concern. 
 
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 Advisers in Denver have requested top surrogates to help turn out the base, but so far, only vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine — not Sens. Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders or either of the Obamas — has a Colorado trip on his schedule. “Millennials are the target, and we could use a little more help than Kaine, who doesn’t exactly thrill the younger voters,” one said. 
 
 More than anything else, antipathy to Trump is what’s driving Clinton’s vote in Colorado. In a recent survey of likely voters there, 40 percent of her supporters said they were backing Clinton “mainly to oppose Donald Trump,” while 36 percent said they were doing so “mainly because I like Hillary Clinton.” 
 
 That same enthusiasm gap between Clinton’s supporters and Trump’s, 6,000 of whom turned out here Wednesday afternoon for another raucous rally, is making Nevada one of the closer contests on the board, a surprise considering Obama’s double-digit win here four years ago and Trump’s toxicity with Hispanic voters, who account for almost 30 percent of the state’s population. 
 
 Operatives on the ground here believe that’s because of Trump’s potential crossover appeal with white males and the union members who abound here — and a function of Clinton’s struggles to motivate the so-called Obama coalition. 
 
 “I expect Trump being helped in Nevada by the fact he’s an employer there,” said Stuart Stevens, the GOP strategist who guided Romney’s 2012 campaign and recalled their news conference in Las Vegas to highlight Trump’s endorsement. “We always saw Trump as a business guy with a local business who was going to help Romney.” 
 
 In a state that’s been affected by rising health care premiums due to Obamacare and by a prolonged housing crisis often blamed on whoever is in the White House, “Trump has a larger growth opportunity with white Democratic men than she does with any group,” according to a prominent GOP strategist here who spoke on background. “Of course, his propensity to blow it is also larger than Clinton’s. But the math is there if he can run a competent campaign.” 
 
 Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster who has long worked with Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, attributes Trump’s competitiveness to the state's less-educated population and the hardships many have endured. But looking at the most recent polling, he’s predicting a Clinton win here. 
 
 “Nevada’s white population makes it more like Ohio than, say, Colorado,” he said. “That college education seems to be a huge dividing line. It always has been, but it’s grown to huge proportions in this election.” 
 
 Public and private polls of likely Nevada voters taken after last week's first Trump-Clinton debate mirror other national and swing state surveys, showing Clinton opening up a lead of 1 to 6 points. 
 
 “Trump certainly can win Nevada,” said Adam Jones, the state director for Americans For Prosperity, whose impressive ground operation is doing much of the voter registration work that Trump’s campaign has not. “It’s one of those things where everything has to go right and he has to get a little lucky, too. It’s not easy for a Republican to win statewide in Nevada, the way voter registration has been trending over the last 16 years. A lot of things have to go right.” 
 
 Most important, Trump has to turn in a stronger performance in Sunday’s debate and in the final showdown, which will take place Oct. 19 in Las Vegas, if he hopes to change the trajectory of the race — especially given Clinton’s organizational advantage. ||||| Hispanic voters could be poised to deliver a historic rebuke to Donald Trump and the Republican Party. 
 
 Early-vote statistics from battleground states with large Hispanic populations show record turnout among a bloc that has voted at a lower rate than whites or blacks in past elections. If, as some polls suggest, Hispanic voters are supporting Hillary Clinton by blowout margins, these numbers could sink Trump in a handful of states that are essential to his path to 270 electoral votes. 
 
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 In Nevada, Latino turnout propelled Democrats in Clark County — the population center that's home to Las Vegas — to a record-breaking close on Friday, driving up the Democratic lead in early ballots cast to 72,000. That's enough, according to veteran Nevada political analyst Jon Ralston, to essentially tie a bow on the state for Clinton. 
 
 Four years earlier, when President Barack Obama won the state by 7 points, Democrats led Clark County in ballots cast by 71,000 at the end of early voting in 2012. 
 
 State GOP Chairman Michael McDonald responded to the sudden electoral tremors Saturday by suggesting there were shady dealings behind the surge, referring to “a certain group.” 
 
 “Last night, in Clark County, they kept a poll open till 10 o’clock at night so a certain group could vote,” said McDonald at a Trump rally in Reno. “It wasn’t in an area that normally has high transition. The polls are supposed to close at 7. This was kept open till 10. Yeah, you feel free right now? Think this is a free or easy election?” 
 
 In his speech following those remarks, Trump suggested there might be wrongdoing at "certain key Democratic polling locations in Clark County." 
 
 "Folks, it's a rigged system. It's a rigged system. And we're going to beat it," he said. 
 
 In Florida, which tracks turnout by race and ethnicity, Hispanics have so far cast about 14 percent of the 5.7 million early and absentee ballots cast. That puts Hispanics far ahead of where they were in casting early ballots relative to 2012. 
 
 That follows Florida Democratic strategist Steve Schale's analysis, which notes that, through Wednesday alone, Hispanic turnout in 2016 had already exceeded — by 170,000 ballots — Hispanic early voting in the entire 2012 cycle. And Schale noted that many of them are first-time voters, who Democrats see as crucial targets in the early-voting period. 
 
 Similar signs suggest Democrats are seeing robust Hispanic turnout in Arizona as well. And even Texas, considered out of reach for Democrats, is seeing a surge across the state's most populous counties. 
 
 Latino turnout has historically lagged that of most other races and ethnicities — even among those eligible to cast ballots. In 2012, 62 percent of all U.S. citizens voted in the presidential election — but only 48 percent of Hispanic citizens did. Meanwhile, higher percentages of white citizens (62 percent) and black citizens (66 percent) participated. 
 
 Those numbers varied by state. In Florida, Hispanic turnout was actually a point higher than turnout overall. But in Nevada, Latino turnout lagged the overall turnout rate by 6 points, and in Colorado, Hispanic turnout was about 18 points lower than overall turnout. 
 
 These turnout rates are why the Hispanic vote is frequently described as a “sleeping giant” — a giant that Clinton’s campaign and the Democrats are trying to awaken by highlighting Trump’s immigration policies and inflammatory statements about Mexicans in the hopes of driving higher turnout than in past election years. 
 
 For Republicans, a landslide defeat among Hispanics would serve as a repudiation of the party’s efforts to improve its performance among those voters in the wake of Mitt Romney’s resounding defeat among this growing cohort four years ago. 
 
 Still, there are meaningful reasons to believe many public polls aren’t capturing the Hispanic vote accurately. The national polling of Hispanics is erratic, with some polls suggesting that Trump is holding his own among Latino voters, and others portending a wave of Hispanics looming to defeat Trump and haunt the GOP for elections to come. 
 
 Latinos are much harder to reach than any other racial or ethnic group that makes up a significant share of the electorate, which makes them a challenge for pollsters. And with the landscape flooded by cheaper, lower-quality polls, the risk that pollsters are missing large numbers of Hispanic voters — or that the Latinos they are reaching are not fully representative — is substantial. 
 
 And if Trump’s candidacy leads to a spike in Latino turnout, will the polls capture it? How accurately are they portraying Hispanics and their voting intentions going into Election Day? 
 
 The current range of the Hispanic vote breakdown in national polls underscores the difficulty in capturing the right mix of Latino voters. 
 
 Clinton’s leads in national polls among Hispanics range from just 15 points — which would represent a dramatic decline from 2012, when exit polls suggested Obama won Hispanics 71 percent to 27 percent — to a 55-point lead in one poll that would represent a historic margin. 
 
 Variances between polls among such a small subgroup are common; Hispanics are expected to make up, at most, 1 in 10 voters nationally. But the wide disparity in these polls also reflects particular challenges in polling Latinos. 
 
 Hispanics are far more likely not to have landline phones than whites and blacks. According to the most recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics — the branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that tracks this data — more than 60 percent of Hispanic adults in the U.S. live in households with only a wireless phone, compared to 44 percent of whites and 48.5 percent of blacks. 
 
 Higher-quality polls make efforts to reach cellphone respondents, but many of the state polls this year have been mostly or entirely conducted via landline phone. 
 
 And, pollsters say, the Hispanics with landlines are different than those without. They are more likely to be lower-income and less assimilated. So polling mostly Hispanics with landlines misses those voters. 
 
 “You have to be doing cellphones, and a lot of them, because that’s a different group,” said Marist College pollster Lee Miringoff. 
 
 Similarly, online polls reflect only a segment of the Hispanic population: the 84 percent that have internet access, a lower percentage than whites. 
 
 Perhaps the most significant challenge for phone polling is language. Most of the high-quality polls employ bilingual interviews, but few others take on that extra expense — and there’s evidence that those that do not are overestimating Trump’s vote share among Latinos. 
 
 A Pew Research Center poll back in June showed that English-dominant Latinos were split relatively evenly: 48 percent for Clinton, and 41 percent for Trump. But Latino registered voters who are more proficient in Spanish or proficient in both Spanish and English were overwhelmingly for Clinton: 80 percent to 11 percent. 
 
 Nolan McCaskill in Reno, Nev., Marc Caputo in Miami and Kyle Cheney contributed to this report. ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201610/1729/1155968404_5173549748001_5087413504001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true 2016 Fears mount on Trump's 'rigged election' rhetoric Top Republicans are coming under pressure to defend the legitimacy of the electoral system. 
 
 No one knows how to handle what might be about to hit on Nov. 9. 
 
 Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to lose on Nov. 8, refuse to concede the election, and teeter the country into an unprecedented crisis of faith in government. Republicans and Democrats, in Washington and beyond, fear that the aftermath of the 2016 election will create a festering infection in the already deep and lasting wound that the campaign is leaving on America. 
 
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 And, they say, only Republican leaders who speak up will have any chance of stopping it. 
 
 "Polls close, but can you believe I lost large numbers of women voters based on made up events THAT NEVER HAPPENED. Media rigging election!" Trump tweeted Sunday morning in response to the latest round of numbers showing him behind. 
 
 President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and their top aides, along with leaders on Capitol Hill, worry about the preview Trump is providing in this final month, part kamikaze mission to take down Clinton, part temper tantrum by a man who has never been embarrassed on either this scale or spotlight. 
 
 They worry about how his egged-on followers might respond, and the violence — perhaps against Muslims, Latinos or any of the many other groups he has targeted in his campaign rhetoric — that might follow. 
 
 “People do dangerous things when dangerous leaders foment deep resentment,” said Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). 
 
 Even after the election, many Democrats and Republicans fear, Trump could keep showing up at rallies. He’s all but certain to keep up his near-constant claim of a “rigged election” on Twitter and in friendly news interviews, casting doubts and stoking a toxicity that, at least as of now, relatively few in his party have explicitly rejected. 
 
 A measure of where things stand already: Asked Saturday whether there could be an armed rebellion if Clinton wins, South Carolina Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster at first pegged the chances of it only at “highly unlikely.” 
 
 “There's going to be a rebellion, yeah. Everybody's tired of the system,” said Fred Steadman, a 57-year-old semi-retired man who was at Trump’s Saturday night rally in New Jersey, sure already that the election is rigged. 
 
 If Clinton does win, most agree that the immediate burden will likely fall on Republican leaders — particularly House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — to quickly and vocally insist on the legitimacy of her election. 
 
 “What this would be is an assault on the foundations of the long-established traditions of the country, an assault on democracy, vandalizing it,” said Steve Schmidt, the Republican strategist who led John McCain’s 2008 campaign. “It would be incumbent finally on national leaders in the Republican Party to speak clearly, unequivocally about not just the situation, but the totality of it.” 
 
 Ari Fleischer, who worked for George W. Bush on the 2000 campaign and later as his White House press secretary, contrasted how “Al Gore graciously accepted the outcome” to Trump’s rhetoric that has him “disgusted.” 
 
 “If he never calls to concede, he’ll go down as one of the sorest of sore losers,” Fleischer said, but “if Donald Trump loses and fights the outcome, it will make many of his followers, which means millions of people, question the legitimacy of our American government. That’s destructive and corrosive.” 
 
 Tony Fratto, a former aide to George W. Bush, said, “You hate to have to fight something like this, but it is very corrosive, so you do have to fight it. You don’t want it to even pick up with a small segment of the population. Reince [Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman] and Ryan and McConnell will have to concede for him, for the party. They just have to take things out of his hands.” 
 
 Only Republicans — and maybe leaders from the right who aren’t going to be suspected to be part of the “establishment” — will be able to move the country forward if Trump won’t, many agree. 
 
 "This is on them. They've created this. They need to defuse,” said a senior Democrat on Saturday evening. 
 
 But that probably won't be near enough to prevent Trump’s most determined supporters, some of whom are as suspicious of Republicans as Democrats, from challenging the results. 
 
 Trump’s refusing to concede “totally fits into his strategy of exploiting voters’ historic breakdown in faith in institutions across the board,” Israel said. “The problem is he'll make democracy itself collateral damage to his ego.” 
 
 It all sounds like ridiculous hypotheticals, the stuff of novels — except to the people who’ve been closely watching the race so far and Trump’s endgame in recent days, for whom it sounds frighteningly, dangerously real. 
 
 The slope has already been slipped down: Trump has threatened to throw Clinton in jail, asserted that her campaign is working with the media to fabricate the stories of his sexual assaults and claiming she stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders. 
 
 Little of that has drawn condemnation from his fellow Republicans. 
 
 On the contrary, when he was asked about WikiLeaks in late August, Priebus said he wasn’t “cheering for folks to be stealing private information,” but he’s spent the past week triumphantly tweeting about revelations from the WikiLeaks hack into Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s email, though the government has officially linked the actions to Russia. 
 
 “Imagine if North Korea or Iran had hacked the RNC and Democrats were publicly using the materials to their benefit,” complained a senior Democratic official Saturday morning. 
 
 So far, there have been many hacks into Democratic political groups, but notably none into Republican groups or the Trump campaign, which has Trump’s unofficial adviser Roger Stone proudly in touch with WikiLeaks and the candidate himself citing the discoveries constantly on the stump. 
 
 Former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis predicted that Republican leaders and voters alike will quickly accept the results and move past the election, blaming the loss on Trump and washing their hands of him — unless it’s another close result where the winner is decided by hanging chads and court cases. 
 
 “It’s a lot different from 2000,” said Davis, a Republican, noting that Gore conceded after the Supreme Court ruling and that Democratic leaders did too. “The media is more polarized today. Everybody’s got their own access to information.” 
 
 Fratto argued that journalists and cable networks will shape what happens next: “People in the media made choices about covering Trump early on. I think they regret those choices, and we’ll see whether they truly regret those choices,” he said. “Because on Nov. 9, there aren’t good reasons to give him the kind of attention that he’s going to want.” 
 
 Trump’s not the only factor. Hacks now seem like a new way of life, with months and years ahead of email and document dumps from campaigns and government offices, but also politically prominent individuals, news organizations and anyone else who can be targeted as part of an agenda to create chaos and distrust. 
 
 “Trump is now attacking our democracy. Any elected R who doesn't condemn this anti-American thug will carry a moral stain forever,” tweeted Republican strategist Mike Murphy on Saturday, adding the hashtag “#cowards.” 
 
 “Democracies rely on some modicum of trust between people & their institutions. Destroy that thru conspiracy mongering & there's no going back,” tweeted Neera Tanden, a former Clinton aide who’s remained in touch with the campaign in Brooklyn. 
 
 Ryan, who’s attempted to define his career through optimism and spent the past year pushing himself as a different kind of Republican than Trump, on Friday latched onto Trump-style apocalyptic distrust, warning that Democrats “rig the system” and promise a future of “gloom and grayness.” 
 
 Saturday afternoon, though, Ryan’s spokeswoman Ashlee Strong released a statement pushing back on the "rigged" talk, hours after Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared at a Trump rally that “they are attempting to rig this election.” 
 
 "Our democracy relies on confidence in election results, and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity,” Strong said. 
 
 Try telling that to the Trump supporters. 
 
 “Pitchforks and torches time,” Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. tweeted on Saturday. 
 
 Or Douglas Wells, who said Saturday at a Trump rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that if Clinton wins, he’d “probably go buy another gun before she stops selling them." 
 
 But, Wells added, "everyone I know is supporting Trump and saying it’s going to be a landslide, so there's no reason to worry right now." 
 
 Ben Schreckinger contributed reporting from Portsmouth, N.H., and Edison, N.J. ||||| Anger trumped hope. 
 
 Donald Trump’s astonishing victory over a heavily favored Hillary Clinton on Tuesday is the greatest upset in the modern history of American elections – convulsing the nation’s political order in ways so profound and disruptive its impact can’t even be guessed at. 
 
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 Trump was too crass, too much of a brazen sexist, too much a blustery orange-maned joke, too ill-informed about the operations of a country he wanted to run, too much of a threat to markets and the security establishment – too pessimistic -- to ever win the White House. Underestimated at every turn, spurned by his own party, the former reality-show star was able to defeat a better-funded better-organized Clinton by surfing a tsunami of working-class white rage that her army of numbers crunchers somehow missed. 
 
 Clinton had fully expected to make history when her motorcade sped from Chappaqua to Manhattan, had planned fireworks to celebrate her being elected the first female president in the 240-year history of the republic. Instead her legacy is one of tragedy, futility and squandered opportunities – proof that a conventional candidate can do practically everything by the numbers (win debates, raise the most cash, assemble the greatest data and voter outreach effort in history) and still fall to a movement impelled by raw emotion, not calculation. 
 
 When you wake up on Wednesday morning the United States will be a different place. 
 
 The markets will tank, but they will recover. World leaders will shudder, but they will adjust as they always do. Half of the country that viewed him as a dangerous demagogue, even a neo-fascist, before the election will wonder, probably for the first time in their lives, if their country is the same one they were born in. 
 
 His tens of millions of inspired supporters will awake to a hopeful new dawn, content in having finally torn the rotten establishment they had long loathed, and wondering how he plans to make their America great again. 
 
 And in about two months Donald John Trump – the man who has said he’s smarter than any of the men who will now be his generals – will be wrapping his fingers around the nation’s nuclear football. 
 
 As a French diplomat said Tuesday, reflecting on Trump, the stunning Brexit vote and the rise of right-wing parties in Western Europe: “This is a world we do not know anymore.” 
 
 Can he do anything to bring a divided, terrified country together? Will he try? There is real fear in many parts of the country tonight. Trump’s remarkable victory was gained by waging total war on his enemies, lukewarm allies, the “dishonest” media and the very idea that he had to be civil or respect the norms of American politics. 
 
 Trump himself had trouble believing he could actually pull the thing off (an aide told CNN early Tuesday that he would need a “miracle” to win). So his final rallies had a screw-it quality, returning to a provocative pattern of his underdog days – calling out the “rigged game” he seemed certain to lose and goading his supporters into a state of fury that made dissenters and reporters feel endangered. 
 
 There was a time, earlier in the campaign, when he refused to join his backers in chanting “Lock her up!” Toward the end, he was joining them in that chant. 
 
 Democratic consultant Stephanie Cutter, who worked on President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, described how many Clinton supporters feel: “He’s about rejecting immigrants, he’s about keeping your foot down on people, women.” 
 
 Clinton, in her upbeat closing message had emphasized that she would be a president for all Americans, and would try to reach out to Trump’s voters; he never reciprocated and the demographic groups that backed her overwhelmingly rejected him with fewer than 7 percent of blacks backing his candidacy, under 25 percent of Latinos earning his vote and a gender gap that led women to support Clinton in 10 to 20 percent greater numbers. 
 
 The question now is whether he will do anything meaningful to reach out to them – to assure Democrats, women, blacks and Hispanics that he views them as co-equal members of the American family. And will they believe him? 
 
 Hillary Clinton is a footnote in history. As Tuesday night dragged into Wednesday morning, as the thousands of would-be revelers turned into marble-eyed mourners, some of the younger women in the crowd looked up at the roof of the joyless Javits Center, its glass ceiling very much intact. 
 
 The shocking result ended a lot of dreams, and one of the most extraordinary and extraordinarily polarizing careers in American politics. 
 
 At 69 – having suffered the most humbling upset imaginable to a deeply, nearly fatally flawed opponent believed to be the only Republican contender she could actually defeat – is spent as a political force. Clinton will forever be known as one of the worst closers in political history, a woman who was never capable of selling a wary public on herself, on account of her own shortcomings and paranoia or perhaps as a result of a sexism so ingrained in American culture that women as well as men suffered from it. 
 
 The good news for Democrats: Clinton is now out of the way, clearing the road for a new generation of leadership with far less baggage. Despite her loss, the Democratic Party’s ideas remain more popular than the Republican platform on global warming, social issues, infrastructure spending, taxes and even immigration, Trump’s signature issue. 
 
 The bad news: What would have happened if the party had nominated Bernie Sanders – the 74-year-old socialist who Clinton dismissed as unelectable? 
 
 White voters finally found someone who spoke their language. The most telling comment of the entire election came when a pollster buttonholed an early Trump supporter, and asked her how she could possibly believe in a novice rabble-rouser with no distinct plans other than a slogan on a red hat. “We know his goal is to make America great again,” she said. “It’s on his hat.” 
 
 That wasn’t a small thing. Clinton had the whiff of Ivy League arrogance and spoke with the technocratic complexity of the Federal Register, coming across as a liberal given to lecturing Americans not inspiring them. For all his flaws, Trump speaks with gut-punch directness and an earthy, sledgehammer humor that succinctly channeled their anger. 
 
 Trump made his fame as a reality TV star but, in reality, he speaks the language of right-wing talk radio, which reflects the raw rage of working-class whites (who still make up about a third of the country’s population) who feel squeezed by globalization, left out of the Starbucks-and-Snapchat prosperity of the coastal elites and really, truly need to have America be great again. It’s noteworthy that Clinton and her staff circulated academic studies documenting the life-span decline of poorer whites – and Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri, pointing to a map of the country in her office, ran a sympathetic finger over Appalachia and promised that Clinton would work hard on behalf of them after the election. 
 
 But Clinton, opting for the Obama strategy of focusing on maximizing turnout among her core constituencies, never made a serious pitch to working-class white men (who backed Trump by a record 48 percent margin) and she paid a terrible, terrible price. 
 
 The Clinton campaign got its numbers wrong. Forget the public polling of the election – which was all over the map, but backed an aggregated surmise that Clinton had a 70 to 85 percent chance of winning the presidency on the eve of the election. 
 
 When I emailed a senior Clinton strategist for their internal polling data on Tuesday morning, I was told her lead was in the 4-to-5 percent range and that the campaign was feeling “very good” about its prospects. There were, I was told, internal tensions within the campaign over the dissemination of polling data and voter-file analytics, but there appears to have been some major miscalculation that blinded her team to the massive turnout of white voters in exurbs and rural areas in the Midwest and Florida. 
 
 Clinton’s vaunted ground game was supposed to give her a one-to-two point advantage, and while it helped boost turnout in Hispanic areas (and brought some underperforming African American neighborhoods up to a respectable level), Brooklyn failed to account for the wave of Trump-stoked anger that rendered its painstakingly created model of the electorate so off-base. 
 
 James Comey is Public Enemy No. 1 (To Democrats). The evidence is mixed, but Clinton staffers and many Democrats blame the FBI director’s unprecedented announcement, 11 days before the election, for throwing the race to a man they deem unfit to serve in the nation’s highest office. Clinton’s internal numbers tanked in the days after the director announced he would examine thousands of new emails found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the husband of Clinton’s aide-de-camp Huma Abedin. “He f---d us, and he f----ed the country,” a senior Clinton campaign official told me late Tuesday. 
 
 The incident – to Trump’s delight – rekindled doubts about Clinton's character and trustworthiness. And even Comey's announcement, on the Sunday before Election Day, that the emails were deemed innocuous, couldn’t save her. ||||| NEW YORK (Reuters) - The raucous, passionate and unpredictable 2016 U.S. presidential election is on track to notch another distinction: the most wagered-upon political event ever. 
 
 U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump (R) speak at campaign rallies in Westbury, New York, U.S., September 26, 2016 and Toledo, Ohio, U.S. September 21, 2016 in a combination of file photos. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Jonathan Ernst/Files 
 
 With many opinion polls showing a tight race just one day before Tuesday’s election, record numbers of bettors are pouring millions into online platforms from Ireland to Iowa in the hope of capturing a financial windfall from a victory by Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump. 
 
 UK-based internet betting exchange Betfair said on Sunday its “Next President” market was set to become the most traded it had ever seen and expected to surpass even Brexit, the contentious UK referendum to leave the European Union. 
 
 By Sunday, roughly $130 million had been traded on who will become the next U.S. president, compared with $159 million on the Brexit referendum, Betfair spokeswoman Naomi Totten said. The amount bet so far on the 2016 contest dwarfs the roughly $50 million laid on the 2012 race. 
 
 “We think it is because (of) how raw the Brexit (vote) is in people’s minds - they’re not convinced yet that it’s a done deal,” Totten said. 
 
 Most polls leading into Britain’s June 23 referendum predicted Britons would choose to remain in the EU. Instead, they voted to leave by a 52 percent to 48 percent margin. 
 
 Betfair’s “Next President” market was by far the largest of more than 70 markets on the site related to the U.S. election. As of Friday, some $140 million has been put into play on markets ranging from who will win the popular vote to how many states each party will carry. 
 
 On Ireland’s Paddy Power, which merged with Betfair earlier this year, the U.S. presidential election “is definitely on course to be the biggest political event,” said spokesman Féilim Mac An Iomaire. The site has had about $4.38 million bet on the race so far. 
 
 For Paddy Power, sporting events remain the site’s “bread and butter,” with politics more of a “niche market,” Mac An Iomaire said. Nonetheless, he expects the 2016 race to be among the top 10-most-traded events on the site. 
 
 Even people with no knowledge of politics know who Trump is, said Mac An Iomaire said, explaining the runaway popularity of the U.S. election in betting markets. “Trump is such a huge celebrity.” 
 
 Ladbrokes, a UK-based gambling company, said about 5 million pounds, or a little over $6 million, had been bet on the 2016 presidential election since its markets on the race opened four years ago. A Ladbrokes spokesman said that amount was “at least double” the amount wagered on the 2012 election. 
 
 The three sites all reported an 83 percent probability of a Clinton victory on Tuesday. Her probability shot up a few percentage points on Sunday after the FBI stood by its earlier recommendation that no criminal charges were warranted against Clinton in her use of a private email server. 
 
 BACK IN THE USA 
 
 The vast majority of big-dollar political betting occurs outside America. Wagering on elections in the United States is limited by law to relatively small trading platforms connected to universities, which use data from the markets for academic research. 
 
 Still, the sites are abuzz with activity as the election nears, albeit in small amounts. 
 
 On PredictIt, launched in 2014 and jointly run by Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm Aristotle International Inc, the five most-active markets all related to the presidential election. 
 
 PredictIt is not legally permitted to disclose the amount of money traded, but its top three markets have all reached the maximum number of participants. 
 
 Trading on the older Iowa Electronic Markets, launched by the University of Iowa in 1988, has also been brisk, although a spokeswoman said she could not say if 2016 was seeing substantially more volume than in 2012, when President Barack Obama won re-election against Republican Mitt Romney. 
 
 The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton with a 5 percentage point lead over Trump in the national survey - 44 percent to 39 percent - while races in the swing states of Florida, North Carolina had shifted from Clinton’s control to being too close to call. 
 
 The PredictIt market gave Clinton an 81 percent probability of winning the White House. IEM’s “Winner Takes All” market showed her with a 71 percent chance . 
 
 ‘SHE WILL WIN IN A LANDSLIDE’ 
 
 Betfair said on Friday that Trump was emerging as the clear favorite among one group of players in particular - Brexit backers. Two-thirds of its customers who had supported a Brexit outcome were also backing Trump on Betfair. 
 
 Paul Krishnamurty, a professional gambler for 15 years who works as an analyst at Betfair and a columnist at Politico, is not one of them. He told Reuters he stood to lose $28,000 if Trump wins on Tuesday. 
 
 Krishnamurty, who said he had earned roughly half a million dollars during his betting career, has laid money on several election-related markets this year. He took a winning position on Trump’s selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate and bet against Jeb Bush during the Republican nominating contests. 
 
 He said he believed Clinton would likely to win both North Carolina and Florida and that a Trump victory was unlikely. 
 
 “I personally believe she will win in a landslide,” Krishnamurty said. ||||| Supporters watch the election results on a larger television monitor during Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's election night rally in the Jacob Javits Center glass enclosed lobby in New... (Associated Press) 
 
 Supporters watch the election results on a larger television monitor during Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's election night rally in the Jacob Javits Center glass enclosed lobby in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Election Day 2016 (all times EST): 
 
 2:05 a.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman says it has nothing more to say even as votes turn against her. 
 
 John Podesta told a crowd in New York early Wednesday that with states still uncalled "we're not going to have anything else to say tonight." 
 
 Clinton trails in the Electoral College count and Donald Trump is close to breaking the 270-vote threshold to become president. 
 
 Podesta told the crowd Clinton "has done an amazing job" and "is not done yet." 
 
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 1:56 a.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton has won the statewide vote in Maine. 
 
 Clinton has won one of the state's congressional districts, giving her three electoral votes. Trump has won one district in the state and wins one electoral vote. 
 
 Trump also won the remaining congressional district in Nebraska, which gives him another electoral vote. 
 
 Clinton now has 218 electoral votes. Her Republican opponent has 266, just four shy of the threshold needed to be elected president. 
 
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 1:36 a.m. 
 
 Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania and its prize of 20 electoral votes. 
 
 Trump's stunning victory in the key battleground state gives him 264 electoral votes. 
 
 It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, has 215. 
 
 Pennsylvania last voted for a Republican for president in 1988. Trump repeatedly campaigned there, believing his populist message would resonate with the state's working-class voters. 
 
 Clinton long viewed the state as a key part of her "firewall" and rallied in Philadelphia with President Barack Obama on Monday night. The Democrats also held their nominating convention in the city. 
 
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 1:30 a.m. 
 
 House Speaker Paul Ryan has congratulated Donald Trump on "his big night." 
 
 A Ryan spokeswoman confirms that the Republican speaker called the Republican presidential nominee Tuesday evening. The spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, says they had "a very good conversation." 
 
 She says, "The speaker congratulated Trump on his big night and also spoke with his good friend Gov. Mike Pence." 
 
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 12:42 a.m. 
 
 The mood is dark at Hillary Clinton's election night party. 
 
 Stony-faced supporters were crying and anxiously staring at the big screens showing election results. Some began leaving as the race wore on into the early hours of Wednesday morning. 
 
 Thousands had gathered at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City for Clinton's election night party. The glass-ceilinged building was picked as a nod to what aides expected would be the historic election of the first female U.S. president. 
 
 Clinton, her family and close aides have spent hours ensconced in a suite at the Peninsula New York, a luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan. 
 
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 12:30 a.m. 
 
 Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is describing the mood inside Trump Tower as "buoyant." 
 
 She tells The Associated Press that the team is hopeful as results continue to roll in. 
 
 A Trump victory would represent a stunning upset against his rival Hillary Clinton. 
 
 Thousands of his supporters are gathered in a midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom watching the results on Fox. 
 
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 12:25 a.m. 
 
 Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens has won the Missouri governor's race, beating Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster. The contest offered voters a vivid choice between experience and a fresh start. 
 
 Greitens, a first-time Republican candidate, has touted himself as an outsider and pledged to tackle corruption in the state Capitol. Koster took the opposite approach, emphasizing that his nearly 22 years in elected office make him qualified to run state government. 
 
 Without a voting record, Greitens was running on his time as a Navy SEAL officer and founder of a charity for veterans, The Mission Continues. Greitens' lengthy resume also includes stints as a Rhodes scholar and White House fellow, champion boxer and martial artist, a best-selling author and motivational speaker. 
 
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 12:23 a.m. 
 
 Republicans have clinched continued House control for the new Congress. They'll likely lose seats from their current historic high, but they won enough seats to extend their six-year streak of commanding the chamber. 
 
 With voting results still being counted early Wednesday, Republicans have won at least 218 House seats. That exceeds the number needed to control the chamber. 
 
 Democrats started the year hoping Donald Trump's divisive presidential candidacy would cost Republicans bushels of House seats. His impact on down-ballot candidates proved spotty. 
 
 Republicans now control 247 seats in the House. With a smaller GOP majority, dissident hard-right conservatives could have added leverage to press House Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders on the budget and other issues. 
 
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 12:21 a.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton has won Nevada and its six electoral votes. 
 
 Her victory there in the presidential election brings Clinton's Electoral College total to 215. Republican Donald Trump has 244 votes. 
 
 It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. 
 
 Clinton's win in Nevada is the first time since the 1940s that the Democrats have carried the state in three consecutive elections. 
 
 The winner of the U.S. presidential election has failed to carry Nevada only once since 1908. 
 
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 12:05 a.m. 
 
 Democrat Jay Inslee has been re-elected governor of Washington, beating challenger Bill Bryant. 
 
 Inslee, a former congressman, touted his environmental record throughout the campaign. He said the state is requiring the biggest polluters to reduce emissions and is promoting alternative energy. 
 
 Bryant, a former Seattle Port commissioner, sharply criticized Inslee in the months leading up to the November election. He said Inslee had mismanaged state departments, especially the state's mental health system. He also said Inslee had failed to come up with a plan to fund K-12 education, as mandated by the state Supreme Court. 
 
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 12:02 a.m. 
 
 Donald Trump has won the battleground state of Iowa. 
 
 He was awarded the state's six Electoral College votes early Wednesday. 
 
 Trump now has 244 electoral votes. His Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has 209. 
 
 Iowa had voted for a Republican only once since 1984 but polls remained tight throughout the campaign. Trump proved popular with the state's sizable evangelical population while Clinton and her allies campaigned frequently in its college towns. 
 
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 11:53 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump has won Utah. 
 
 The Republican nominee was awarded its six electoral college votes. 
 
 He now has 238 electoral votes. His Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has 209. 
 
 Utah is normally one of the safest states on the map for Republicans. But the presence of independent Evan McMullin changed the calculation this year as polls consistently reflected a tight three-way race. Trump also had struggled with Mormons, who are normally reliably Republican voters. 
 
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 11:44 p.m. 
 
 Kate Brown has been re-elected governor of Oregon over Republican newcomer Bud Pierce. 
 
 Brown became governor in February 2015 after the resignation of John Kitzhaber over an influence-peddling scandal. Brown was then secretary of state and next in line to succeed him. 
 
 Tuesday's gubernatorial vote was a special election to fill the remainder of Kitzhaber's four-year term. 
 
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 11:43 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump's victory in Ohio demonstrates the Republican nominee's ability to energize working-class voters outside of America's largest cities. 
 
 Mahoning County stands out as a working-class county where organized labor still maintains political clout. Trump didn't win the county that surrounds Youngstown. But he might as well have. 
 
 Hillary Clinton won by just 3 percentage points and less than 3,500 votes. Four years ago, President Barack Obama outpaced Mitt Romney by almost 25,000 votes on his way to a 28-point margin in the county. Clinton fell more than 20,000 votes shy of Obama's total. 
 
 Youngstown is represented in Congress by a Democrat who offers some of the same populist appeal to labor as Trump. But those loyalties to Rep. Tim Ryan apparently didn't transfer to Clinton. 
 
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 11:37 p.m. 
 
 Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott has won election as governor of Vermont. 
 
 He defeated Democrat Sue Minter. 
 
 The popular construction company executive and part-time race-car driver had served three two-year terms as Vermont's part-time lieutenant governor. He was previously in the state Senate. 
 
 Scott takes over in January from Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, who decided not to seek a fourth two-year term. 
 
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 11:36 p.m. 
 
 The crowd at Donald Trump's election watch party is jubilant as returns continue to roll in putting him closer to 270 Electoral College votes. 
 
 Supporters packed into a hotel ballroom in midtown Manhattan are breaking into chants of "USA!" and embracing each other in groups. 
 
 Others are breaking into song, bellowing "God Bless America" at the top of their lungs. 
 
 The screens in the ballroom are turned to Fox News. When the station shows images of Clinton's election headquarters, the room breaks into boos and chants of one of Trump's slogans: "Drain the swamp!" 
 
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 11:33 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump has won Georgia. 
 
 The Republican nominee on Tuesday was awarded its 16 electoral votes. 
 
 Trump now has 232 electoral votes while his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has 209. 
 
 The Democrats had some hopes that changing demographics in Georgia could allow then to flip the reliably Republican state but their efforts fell short. 
 
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 11:29 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton has won Washington state and its 12 electoral votes. 
 
 The victory in Tuesday's elections brings the former secretary of state's electoral vote total to 209. Republican Donald Trump has 216. 
 
 It takes 270 votes to win the presidency. 
 
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 11:15 p.m. 
 
 California voters passed a ballot measure to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, giving a big boost to the campaign to end the drug's national prohibition. 
 
 Adults older than 21 can legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana and grow six plants. 
 
 California was one of five states where votes were considering the legalization of recreational marijuana Tuesday. Four other states were considering measures to legalize medicinal marijuana. 
 
 So far, voters in Florida and North Dakota have also passed marijuana measures Tuesday. 
 
 Collectively, it's the closest the U.S. has ever come to national referendum on marijuana. ||||| It is a rare celestial crossing that has both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump spending election night not only in the same city, but barely more than a mile apart in midtown Manhattan — and it is creating unprecedented security headaches for New York City. 
 
 Not since they sparred with each other on the debate stage have the Clinton and Trump orbits overlapped in this way. 
 
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 Clinton is planning a big bash in a symbolically significant glass-roofed atrium that is part of the Javits convention center. Trump will be ensconced in a Hilton a mere 15 blocks away. 
 
 “Tomorrow, election day, brings with it a unique set of challenges. For the first time in modern memory, both major party candidates will monitor the results here in New York and will have election night parties in midtown Manhattan,’’ New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said Monday. 
 
 More philosophical about the election was New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat. “It has been in many ways a challenging and painful year,” he told reporters. “It stained our democracy. Tomorrow is the day when we get to make it right, when democratic process comes alive and people choose.’’ 
 
 The last time two presidential candidates were from New York was 1944, when Franklin D. Roosevelt won his fourth term, prevailing over New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, but celebrations were subdued because of World War II. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, live in the suburb of Chappaqua, where they moved in 1999 so that she could run for U.S. Senate. The Queens-born Trump lives in a penthouse condominium atop the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. 
 
 The election night jitters come in the midst of a heightened terrorism alert. A bomb that exploded in the Chelsea neighborhood in mid-September injured 29 people. Federal officials have said they have received intelligence warnings of a terrorist threat from the Al Qaeda militant group. Islamic State has also called on its supporters to attack election targets. 
 
 “Currently the credibility and the sourcing of that information is under investigation and ongoing with no new information since last week,” said James Waters, head of the Police Department’s counter-terrorism bureau. 
 
 Since last year, New York City has tripled the size of what it calls its Critical Response Command, a counter-terrorism unit that grew out of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Police officials said they would have more than 5,000 police officers out on election night, uniformed and plain-clothed, as well as bomb-sniffing dogs, and what they called “long gun trained” special forces. 
 
 Up until now, the largest deployment of security in New York City was during Pope Francis’ visit last year, which coincided with the U.N. General Assembly, attended by President Obama and 170 other world leaders. 
 
 It is not just the threat of terrorism that is causing a headache. The polarizing presidential election has elicited strong, occasionally destructive passions. High-rise buildings in Manhattan bearing the Trump name have been pelted with eggs repeatedly. In Staten Island, the borough where Trump is most popular, a gigantic sign erected on the lawn of a supporter was set on fire in August. 
 
 “You have two things going on at once,’’ De Blasio said. Besides the competing election night parties, he said, “this campaign has generated particular passion and concern. NYPD has taken into account the historic nature of this night … and has really prepared with tremendous force levels at the right locations.’’ 
 
 Huge crowds are expected at Times Square, where people often watch election results in much the same way that they gather on New Year’s Eve. Another key location is the 58-story Trump Tower, which has become the epicenter for protests for and against Trump’s candidacy. 
 
 On Sunday, competing crowds tried to drown each other out under the gold marquee of the building as police struggled to keep the sidewalks clear. A man wearing nothing but bikini underwear with the word “Trump” written on it strummed a guitar. A Filipino American nurse yelled, “God bless America. Vote for Trump,’’ and a man walking by yelled back at the Trump supporters, “You drank the Kool-Aid!” 
 
 Clinton appears to be planning the larger, more lavish party at the sprawling Javits Center, which occupies a city block along the Hudson River and can accommodate as many as 85,000 people. Her campaign also received a permit for a fireworks display over the river, but the plan has been called off, according to a police official, who said he did not know the reason. 
 
 According to the New York Post, if Clinton wins there will be an after-party at the Peninsula Hotel, just one block away from Trump Tower. 
 
 Heavy security was already in place over the weekend at the Javits Center and television vans with satellite dishes were parked out front. On Sunday, the scene was quieter in front of the Hilton, where the only evidence of an impending election event was a sign that read “No Parking on Tuesday.” 
 
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 A complete list of the L.A. Times' 2016 endorsements ||||| Donald Trump tried to distract voters from a weeklong controversy over his insults toward a former Miss Universe on Friday night by asking Barack Obama to pledge not to “pardon Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators for their many crimes against our country and against society itself”. 
 
 
 
 Clinton calls Trump 'temperamentally unfit' to lead after Alicia Machado spat Read more 
 
 Only hours earlier, the Republican nominee had gone on a predawn Twitter rampage about Alicia Machado, tweeting false accusations that she had a sex tape and that Clinton had somehow helped Machado become an American citizen. He later tried to justify the tweets, writing: “For those few people knocking me for tweeting at 3 o’clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!” 
 
 The Clinton campaign quickly responded. “His latest Twitter meltdown is unhinged, even for him,” the Democratic nominee told a rally in Florida. She also responded on Trump’s medium of choice, Twitter: “What kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?” 
 
 The former secretary of state spoke in Coral Springs, where she unveiled a plan to expand national service opportunities for young Americans. But Clinton also scorned Trump at length there, asking: “Who gets up at three o’clock in the morning to engage in a Twitter attack against a former Miss Universe?” 
 
 Late Friday, BuzzFeed found that Trump had had a cameo in an explicit Playboy video made in 2000, prompting a response from Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill. “There’s been a lot of talk about sex tapes today, and in a strange turn of events only one adult film has emerged today and its star is Donald Trump,” Merrill told reporters. 
 
 On Friday evening, Trump attempted to change the subject by amplifying his attacks on Clinton, citing the Clinton Foundation’s international donors and her handling of emails as secretary of state. Republicans often criticize Clinton along these lines, but Trump has recently escalated the rhetoric. He called Clinton a “globalist” and a “vessel for special interests … who want to strip [the US] of its status as a sovereign nation” and accused her of “many crimes against our country and against society itself”. 
 
 The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to questions about what crimes the nominee meant. 
 
 The Republican nominee also stirred concerns about voter fraud, returning to the unsubstantiated claims of a “rigged election” and “cheating” that he made for several weeks this summer. On Friday, Trump claimed voter fraud “is a big, big problem in this country” and that “nobody has the guts to talk about it”. 
 
 He then urged attendees at this rally to “go and watch the polling places and make sure it is on the up and up”, even though an exhaustive investigation in 2014 found only 31 potential incidents of in-person voter fraud in all US elections over 14 years. 
 
 The complaints about a “rigged” system follow days of negative revelations about the nominee. A report in Newsweek showed evidence that Trump’s company had violated the embargo on doing business in Cuba, and a report in the Washington Post showed Trump’s charitable foundation lacks a license to solicit money, though it has appeared to do so for years. 
 
 Several conservative or apolitical newspapers also refused to endorse Trump this week. On Friday, the San Diego Union-Tribune, which has endorsed every Republican presidential candidate since 1868, announced that it would back Hillary Clinton. In doing so, its editorial board wrote: “Trump could be our Chávez, our Kirchner. We cannot take that risk.” 
 
 It was joined by USA Today, which issued its first-ever presidential endorsement to write that Trump was “unfit for the presidency”. The national paper did not endorse Clinton but merely urged readers to vote for anyone but Trump. Other papers, including the Arizona Republic and the Cincinnati Enquirer, have broken their conservative record to back Clinton. A number of other traditionally conservative papers, such as the Chicago Tribune and the Detroit News, have endorsed Libertarian Gary Johnson instead of Trump. 
 
 One newspaper has broken its apolitical history to endorse Trump. In March, he became the first candidate endorsed by the National Enquirer in the tabloid’s history.
– Donald Trump may have woken up what pollsters call a "sleeping giant"—and it's not planning on voting for him. As the campaigns enter their final day, the Washington Post reports that there are signs that the Latino voter turnout is set to break records, and much of the turnout, especially among first-time voters, is motivated by dislike of Trump. The turnout boost could be enough to swing the vote for Hillary Clinton in states including Nevada and Florida, and Democrats are closely tracking increased turnout in states like Arizona and Texas, Politico reports. In other developments: The New York Times, in a look inside the Trump campaign during its final weeks, reports that after the FBI announced it was investigating new Clinton emails, Trump's advisers finally managed to get him to stop tweeting without their approval. They warned him that he "risked becoming like a wild animal chasing its prey so zealously that it raced over a cliff," insiders say. He now apparently has to dictate his tweets instead of sending them himself. CNET reports that at a rally in Florida Sunday, President Obama mocked Trump for having control of his Twitter account taken away. "Now, if somebody can't handle a Twitter account, they can't handle the nuclear codes," Obama quipped. Reuters reports that this election is on course to attract more gambling dollars than any other political event in history, with most of the betting taking place outside the US. British betting firms say people who bet on Brexit are now betting on a Trump win. The Miami Herald reports that early voting records were shattered in the state Sunday, especially in its two most populous counties. According to the Hill, Clinton supporters smell victory after the FBI's announcement Sunday that its latest review of Clinton emails uncovered no cause for criminal charges. "She's got it," a close friend of Clinton's says, predicting an electoral college victory with 310 to 320 votes, well over the 270 needed. Politico forecasts that the Democrats have a better-than-even chance of gaining a slender majority in the Senate, though the Republicans appear likely to retain control of the House. The AP looks ahead to election night and singles out 10 counties in battleground states where early results will say a lot about whether certain Clinton and Trump strategies worked.