CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign rallies have turned into eruptions of barely contained emotions from his impassioned followers, who urge him to fight on despite a series of gut punches that have put his chances of winning in doubt. 
 
 Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump stands with female supporters on stage at a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar 
 
 With the Nov. 8 election now only weeks away and polls turning against him, Trump is spending precious time in campaign speeches defending himself from accusations from several women who say he made unwanted sexual advances toward them. 
 
 What he would do if elected is covered, but much of his speeches are spent belittling his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. He also accuses the U.S. news media of a plot to bring him down, and charges that the women who have made the accusations against him might be doing it for a taste of fame. 
 
 Opinion polls show a gloomy picture for Trump. A week after a video surfaced of him bragging in lewd terms about groping women, the latest Reuters-Ipsos poll on Friday showed Clinton up, with 44 percent to Trump’s 37 percent. 
 
 And the crowds have gotten more protective of their hero. One woman at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday wore a homemade T-shirt that said “Trump Can Grab My,” with an arrow pointing to her crotch. 
 
 On Friday in Greensboro, North Carolina, a man wearing a “Gays for Trump” shirt punched a protester who held up an upside down American flag. Both were ejected. 
 
 Trump’s message has gotten through to his supporters in a big way about Clinton, who Trump calls a criminal for her handling of classified information as secretary of state. “She would be the most dishonest and corrupt ever elected to high office,” he said. 
 
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 A crowd of young voters had a ready response when he brought up Clinton at an event in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday. 
 
 “Lock her up!” they chanted, mimicking the lines voiced by older voters at other events. 
 
 Trump could only smile and shake his head. 
 
 “So young and so jaded already,” he said. 
 
 The New York businessman feeds off the energy generated by crowds that pack his rallies by the thousands. But he is easily distracted, lurching from topic to topic based on whatever happens to sprint to mind. 
 
 On Wednesday in Lakeland, Florida, Trump jumped from bashing the news media as “the most dishonest people you’ll ever see,” to tout his performance at a debate in St. Louis on Sunday - “which I won big league” - to Clinton’s stroll across the stage in front of him at that event. 
 
 “And the papers said I invaded her space,” he said. “Believe me, the last space I want to invade is hers.” 
 
 There are moments of levity. A woman who recovered from a brief fainting spell in the heat of Lakeland was pointed out by Trump. 
 
 “That woman was out cold and now she is recovered — a little ding to the head,” he said, approvingly. 
 
 Trump can form an attack line against Clinton out of pretty much anything that springs to mind. 
 
 Venting about Chinese trade practices before a raucous crowd of perhaps 20,000 in Cincinnati on Thursday night, Trump suddenly imagined how China might treat Clinton given her bout of pneumonia a month ago, which had caused her to nearly collapse at an event in New York. 
 
 “If she goes down in Tiananmen Square, they’ll just leave her,” he said. “They’re tough people.” 
 
 Trump’s crowds sometimes get agitated. 
 
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 Many of his supporters are upset at the news media, whipped into a frenzy by both Trump and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who in Cincinnati introduced Trump by condemning “the insanity of the media, the insanity of the way they cover him.” 
 
 Upon entering the arena, Trump’s traveling press corps was booed by thousands of people who chanted “tell the truth.” Trump boosters near the media work area repeatedly cursed and taunted reporters. 
 
 “When are you all going to be ashamed of yourselves?” one man shouted. “Lower than Congress — that’s what your approval rating is.” ||||| McKenna Silver, left,14, and Riley Lingerfelt, 15, chant a cheer and hold up a sign, “We’re Gonna Trump Hilliary,” as they wait in line to see Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at... (Associated Press) 
 
 McKenna Silver, left,14, and Riley Lingerfelt, 15, chant a cheer and hold up a sign, “We’re Gonna Trump Hilliary,” as they wait in line to see Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C. (Laura Greene/The Enterprise via AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Battered by sordid new accusations of sexual misbehavior, Donald Trump fought back in ever-more-remarkable fashion Friday, acting out one woman's allegation onstage and suggesting another was not attractive enough to merit his attention. He defiantly denied a week's worth of accusations that have all but consumed his presidential bid just over three weeks before the election. 
 
 "She would not be my first choice, that I can tell you," Trump said of one woman in a rambling attack on his female accusers as he campaigned in battleground North Carolina. 
 
 The New York businessman said his staff wanted him to avoid the topic altogether but that he couldn't resist defending himself. He blamed the growing story on his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and an international media conspiracy, describing his female accusers as "sick" people seeking fame or money. 
 
 "The only thing I can say is hopefully, hopefully, our patriotic movement will overcome this terrible deception," he declared. 
 
 Trump assailed The New York Times in particular, noting its connection to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, who is a major shareholder in the media company. 
 
 Spokesman Arturo Elias Ayub later said Slim doesn't know Trump at all "and is not the least bit interested in his personal life." 
 
 Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, promised the campaign would soon release evidence against the women that would show Trump's innocence. 
 
 "It's coming in, frankly, probably in a matter of hours," Pence said Friday morning on NBC's "Today" Show." He added, "It's astonishing to see the enormous coverage of these, of these really unfounded allegations, unestablished allegations, compared to an avalanche of emails coming out of Hillary Clinton's years as secretary of state." 
 
 Indeed, Friday marked another day on which WikiLeaks released thousands of emails that had been stolen from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's personal account. 
 
 The new batch showed that Hillary Clinton's campaign asked former President Bill Clinton to cancel a speech to an investment firm last year because of concerns that the Clintons might appear to be too cozy with Wall Street just as she was about to announce her candidacy. 
 
 Clinton aides say in the emails that Hillary Clinton did not want her husband to cancel the speech but was eventually convinced. The Clintons' paid speeches have been an issue throughout the campaign, particularly lucrative speeches to Wall Street. 
 
 The Clinton campaign, citing information it says is from the FBI, says the hacks are being investigated as part of a broader attack on Democratic Party leaders that may involve Russia. 
 
 Clinton herself spoke Friday of a need for national healing. 
 
 "I take no satisfaction in seeing what Trump does and says because it hurts — it hurts me and it hurts our country," she said in a speech at a fundraiser. 
 
 Polls suggest Trump has fallen further behind Clinton nationally and in most battleground states. Early in-person voting is underway in 20 states, including Ohio, where President Barack Obama railed against Trump a day after first lady Michelle Obama declared in a passionate speech, "Enough is enough." 
 
 The Obamas both seized on Trump's words, captured in a video released last week, bragging about kissing and groping women without their permission. The 70-year-old billionaire has apologized, but also repeatedly dismissed his comments as "locker room talk." 
 
 "You don't have to be a husband or a father to know that that kind of language, those kinds of thoughts, those kinds of actions are unacceptable. They're not right. You just have to be a decent human being," President Obama charged in Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Two more women, meanwhile, come forward Friday with allegations against Trump. 
 
 A former contestant from NBC's "The Apprentice," said Friday that the former reality television star became sexually aggressive at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007. Summer Zervos, appearing at a Friday news conference with attorney Gloria Allred, said Trump kissed her open-mouthed and touched her breasts in a private room. 
 
 And in a story published online Friday, Kristin Anderson told The Washington Post that she was sitting on a couch with friends at a New York nightclub in the early 1990s when a hand reached up her skirt and touched her through her underwear. 
 
 Anderson, then in her early 20s, said she pushed the hand away, turned around and recognized Trump as the man who had groped her. 
 
 Trump mocked Anderson's claim onstage as he campaigned in North Carolina, pausing to reach out his hand to touch an imaginary woman as his accuser described. "I just heard this one. It's like, it's like unbelievable," he said. 
 
 Even before the mounting allegations, there was evidence that Trump's troubles were hurting the Republican Party's ability to raise money. 
 
 The Republican National Committee has raised about 25 percent less over the past three months than it did over the same period four years ago, when Mitt Romney was atop the ticket. 
 
 The RNC said Friday that it raised $39.4 million last month, compared to $48.4 million in September 2012. It says it has raised $262.3 million since January 2015, about $20 million more than it had by this time in 2012. 
 
 Friday's accusations against Trump are in line with similar allegations by women in articles by The New York Times and the Palm Beach Post. Separately, a People magazine reporter offered a first-person account accusing Trump of attacking her in 2005 while she was in Florida to interview him and his pregnant wife. 
 
 He specifically rejected the People magazine accuser's claim at the North Carolina rally. "She is a liar. She is a liar," Trump said. "These people are sick." 
 
 Meanwhile, House Speaker Paul Ryan delivered a high-profile speech on Friday criticizing Clinton and promoting Republicans in next month's elections. 
 
 The nation's top elected Republican did not, however, say the words "Donald Trump." 
 
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 Peoples reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Josh Lederman in Columbus, Ohio, Julie Bykowicz and Hope Yen in Washington and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this report. ||||| 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. ||||| Trump addressed thousands of supporters at an outdoor rally in Johnston County on Thursday night, seeking to build excitement in a crucial swing state just days before the election. 
 
 Trump was joined onstage at The Farm by a couple dozen retired military officers sporting “Make America Great Again” hats. The officers have endorsed his campaign. Trump’s speech focused heavily on military and national security issues – likely because the rally site was just down the road from Fort Bragg and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. 
 
 “I stand here tonight among true heroes,” Trump said. “I will never, ever let you down, I will tell you that, and you’ve been let down plenty over the years.” 
 
 Trump promised that if he’s elected, he’ll ensure “full and proper funding for all branches of the American armed forces.” 
 
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 He called for drastic changes to the American military mission abroad. “We will stop trying to build foreign democracies, topple regimes, and race recklessly to intervene in situations where we have no right to be there, folks,” he said. “Instead, our focus must be on keeping America safe and destroying ISIS.” 
 
 Trump spoke from a teleprompter and stayed on message, avoiding any mention of recent sexual assault allegations against him or other controversies that have rocked his campaign. He criticized Democrat Hillary Clinton but focused on the FBI investigation into her use of a private email server, calling her “the most dishonest person ever to run for office.” 
 
 “We know Hillary Clinton can’t be trusted with America’s security,” Trump said. “She was more interested in keeping her emails a secret than in keeping our classified intelligence a secret. Ending this criminal government corruption is one of the most important reasons you have to go out on Nov. 8 and vote.” 
 
 Clinton has said she’s confident the latest review of her emails will have the same result as the FBI investigation that ended in July when director James Comey said her handling of classified information was “extremely careless” but didn’t recommend criminal charges. 
 
 Trump also slammed President Barack Obama, who campaigned for Clinton in Chapel Hill on Wednesday and will return to the state Friday for rallies in Fayetteville and Charlotte. “This guy does nothing but campaign,” Trump said, suggesting Obama is neglecting his duties. “Instead he’s campaigning with somebody who’s under FBI investigation.” 
 
 Obama’s Chapel Hill speech included strong words about Trump, who the president said is is “unfit to be commander-in-chief” and “brags about how being famous allows him to get away with sexual assault.” 
 
 Trump promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, noting that 95 of 100 North Carolina counties will now have only one insurance company selling policies under the health care law. 
 
 “It’s horrible health care – you don’t even get to use it,” Trump said. “It doesn’t matter, because if I win, we’re terminating it and you’re going to have great insurance.” 
 
 Before Trump took the stage, traffic in the rural area was gridlocked for more than two hours. People rode in the beds of pickup trucks and hung out their windows on Interstate 95 waving signs of every color and size emblazoned with candidate names and campaign slogans. 
 
 Two men hopped out of their car in the midst of traffic to sell hats with the slogan “Make America Great Again.” Nearby, Springhill Outfitters advertised the event on its electronic sign along with “hot specials on guns.” 
 
 Supporters said their candidate’s name stands for “This Republican Understands My Problems.” 
 
 Lisa and Patrick Smelik of Raleigh said they support Trump because they believe he’ll increase the number of jobs and because he’s “a true American.” 
 
 “We need jobs and we need lower taxes,” Lisa Smelik said. “He’s the right person for everyone ... He’s going to bring people together because there’s been such a divide.” 
 
 “He’s more of an independent,” Patrick Smelik said. “The Republicans have been in too much of a groove.” 
 
 Several women at the rally said they weren’t bothered by Trump’s boasts about sexual assault on a leaked “Access Hollywood” tape. 
 
 “Any man you meet, that’s how they talk,” said Talia Sutton of Lucama. “My husband talks the same way Donald Trump does. I’m not going to get mad. It’s his politics, it’s what he plans on doing for this country – that’s what matters to me.” 
 
 SHARE COPY LINK Women attending Donald Trump's campaign rally in Selma, NC talk about why they choose to support the Republican candidate for president. 
 
 Dennie Johnson, 66, of Wilson County, and his wife, Cora Lee, 54, said they had never voted before this year. Trump got them to the polls, they said. 
 
 “I want change,” Cora Lee Johnson said. “And someone who will send the ones who ain’t legal back.” 
 
 Janey Lane, Heather Jones and Hunter Lane, of Micro, said they think Trump will support law enforcement officers like Hunter, who is a Fuquay-Varina police officer. 
 
 “We need somebody who supports them instead of hanging them out to dry,” Janey Lane said. “Someone who’s not part of the establishment. He’s not part of the good ol’ boys’ club. He’s not scared.” 
 
 But Lane said other countries should be afraid of Trump. 
 
 “I hope he does have his finger on the button,” she said. “We need the rest of the world to be afraid of us and not knowing what he might do will do that. We need someone who won’t apologize for us.” 
 
 Cindy and Joe Thornton of Benson have a drywall business, and their sons own a gym. This was their first political rally. 
 
 “It’s so hard for people now,” Cindy Thornton said. “Taxes, health care. People are struggling.” 
 
 And the Thorntons said Trump can fix that. 
 
 “Lower taxes, a flat tax, abolish the IRS,” Joe Thornton said. “He’s a businessman and I think the country should be run like a business. If businesses gave away everything like the government, they’d fail.” 
 
 Thursday’s rally won’t be Trump’s last visit to North Carolina before Election Day. 
 
 Trump’s campaign announced Thursday that he’ll hold a Raleigh rally at 3 p.m. Monday in Dorton Arena at the N.C. State Fairgrounds. He’ll also be in Wilmington on Saturday for a 1 p.m. rally at Wilmington International Airport. 
 
 Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, will hold a rally in Greenville on Friday. 
 
 Staff photographer Chris Seward contributed to this report. ||||| Annie Leibovitz is reportedly set to shoot the story. 
 
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 Two days of sniping over real-estate regulations. ||||| The tempest in a teacup that is The New York Times Anonymous op-ed has led to a game of trying to find out who is the rat within the Trump Administration. I’m surprised that no one has considered another possibility, that it is a hoax, concocted within The New York Times. 
 
 Anyone who dismisses that possibility has not been keeping count with the Left’s constant hoaxes, lies and fake news. If you have not, here is a small — very small — sample: 
 
 Early on, a British jackass composed an obscene, fraudulent, “Russian dossier” about Trump having two Russian hookers urinate in bed while he watched. This was actually taken seriously by leftist journalists. 
 
 A lesbian waitress in New Jersey claimed to have received an anti-gay message in the receipt. She lied. 
 
 A student who reported racist graffiti turned out to have written that graffiti. 
 
 Juan M. Thompson, a journalist for The Intercept, sent several bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers which were blamed on Trump supporters. 
 
 Khalil Cavil, a waiter in Texas, made up a whole story that a customer scrawled the message, “We don’t tip terrorists,” on a reciept, which got the customer barred from the restaurant. 
 
 A few days after the 2016 presidential election, a female student at the University of Michigan reported that a white man told her to take off her hijab or he would set her on fire. Surveillance tapes and inconsistencies proved that it was a lie. 
 
 Halley Bass, another University of Michigan student, scratched her face and claimed that her assault “was part of the surge in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump.” 
 
 A group of progressive students (“Diversity Leadership Council”) at Gustavus Adolphus College put up racist posters. 
 
 Samantha Wells, a black student at St. Olaf College, claimed to have received a threatening note using the death-inducing n-word. Classes were shut down. Protests erupted. She confessed. 
 
 Nathan Stang arrived at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Bean Blossom, Indiana, and was horrified — yes, horrified! — to see swastikas, anti-Gay and pro-Trump slogans. Which he spray painted himself. 
 
 In Lafayette, a Muslim woman claimed that two men (one wearing a pro-Trump hat) robbed her, stole her wallet and hijab. She later admitted to lying. 
 
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 Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the first time that a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has. 
 
 And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate. Men who have no right to call themselves that and who think that women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly, and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration struck a blow for misogynistic shitheads everywhere. Hate was given hope. Abject dumbness was glamorized as being “the fresh voice of an outsider” who’s going to “shake things up.” (Did anyone bother to ask how? Is he going to re-arrange the chairs in the Roosevelt Room?) For the next four years, the President of the United States, the same office held by Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., J.F.K. and Barack Obama, will be held by a man-boy who’ll spend his hours exacting Twitter vengeance against all who criticize him (and those numbers will be legion). We’ve embarrassed ourselves in front of our children and the world. 
 
 And the world took no time to react. The Dow futures dropped 700 points overnight. Economists are predicting a deep and prolonged recession. Our NATO allies are in a state of legitimate fear. And speaking of fear, Muslim-Americans, Mexican-Americans and African-Americans are shaking in their shoes. And we’d be right to note that many of Donald Trump’s fans are not fans of Jews. On the other hand, there is a party going on at ISIS headquarters. What wouldn’t we give to trade this small fraction of a man for Richard Nixon right now? 
 
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 So what do we do? 
 
 First of all, we remember that we’re not alone. A hundred million people in America and a billion more around the world feel exactly the same way we do. 
 
 Second, we get out of bed. The Trumpsters want to see people like us (Jewish, “coastal elites,” educated, socially progressive, Hollywood…) sobbing and wailing and talking about moving to Canada. I won’t give them that and neither will you. Here’s what we’ll do… 
 
 …we’ll fucking fight. (Roxy, there’s a time for this kind of language and it’s now.) We’re not powerless and we’re not voiceless. We don’t have majorities in the House or Senate but we do have representatives there. It’s also good to remember that most members of Trump’s own party feel exactly the same way about him that we do. We make sure that the people we sent to Washington—including Kamala Harris—take our strength with them and never take a day off. 
 
 We get involved. We do what we can to fight injustice anywhere we see it—whether it’s writing a check or rolling up our sleeves. Our family is fairly insulated from the effects of a Trump presidency so we fight for the families that aren’t. We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose. We fight for the First Amendment and we fight mostly for equality—not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities. We stand up. 
 
 America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always—always—been followed by our finest hours. 
 
 Roxy, I know my predictions have let you down in the past, but personally, I don’t think this guy can make it a year without committing an impeachable crime. If he does manage to be a douche nozzle without breaking the law for four years, we’ll make it through those four years. And three years from now we’ll fight like hell for our candidate and we’ll win and they’ll lose and this time they’ll lose for good. Honey, it’ll be your first vote. 
 
 The battle isn’t over, it’s just begun. Grandpa fought in World War II and when he came home this country handed him an opportunity to make a great life for his family. I will not hand his granddaughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men. Your tears last night woke me up, and I’ll never go to sleep on you again. 
 
 Love, 
 
 Dad 
 
 Editor’s note: A previous version of this article overstated the amount by which Dow futures dropped on Wednesday morning. 
 
 Get Vanity Fair’s HWD Newsletter Sign up for essential industry and award news from Hollywood. E-mail Address Subscribe ||||| 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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