Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was rushed off the stage by Secret Service at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada on Saturday.

An unidentified individual yelled “gun” while Trump was speaking, the Secret Service said in a statement. Secret Service agents and Reno police detained the man and after a thorough search, did not find a gun, the statement said.

That was very chaotic. Trump was just rushed off stage by Secret Service. Fights started breaking out in the crowd. Not sure why. — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) November 6, 2016

CBS News producer Arden Farhi said it all happened very quickly, but it appeared their was a commotion near the podium.

Trump returned to the stage shortly afterward, and said “nobody said it was going to be easy for us. But we will never be stopped. Never, ever be stopped.”

Security scare during Donald Trump campaign event

He thanked the Secret Service and then returned to his speech.

The Reno rally was a last-minute trip to the swing state. It was his third rally on Saturday in the last, long weekend before Election Day.

Trump began speaking just before 5:30 p.m., according to CBS affiliate KTVN.

Looking specifically at Reno, Trump said that “Reno and northern Nevada can carry this thing.” He continued to say in regards to Tuesday’s vote, “It’s up to the great people of Washoe County to get this done.” Then he spoke against the man who he called “Crazy Harry”, Senator Harry Reid. However he did not endorse any candidate to take his place.

Other talking points included the “rigged system” and the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Later on, Trump also spoke about healthcare, saying as president he would begin by “completely repealing and replacing Obamacare”.

Switching to international policy, he said he would “suspend the Syrian refugee problem” and keep “radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.” Then began speaking about building the wall, the “great wall” at Mexico’s border, emphasizing that he would let people in legally. He says that the process to become a legalized citizen will be “streamlined” and “efficient.”</s>Security personnel rush off stage after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was escorted away during a rally at the Reno-Sparks Convention Centre in Reno, Nevada on Saturday.

Television footage showed a white male suspect pinioned on the ground by officers and searched, before he was led away.

White House hopeful Donald Trump was bundled off stage by security officers on Saturday after a gun scare during a campaign appearance in Reno, Nevada.

The 70-year-old Republican tycoon reappeared several minutes later to cheers, declaring: “Nobody said it was going to be easy for us, but we will never be stopped, never ever be stopped.

“I want to thank the Secret Service. These guys are fantastic. They don’t get enough credit. They are amazing people.”

Just before the fracas, Mr. Trump could be seen shielding his eyes from the lights in order to peer into the crowd as a struggle broke out.

There were signs of a fracas in the audience as three agents led Mr. Trump away, shielding his body, but once a suspect was in custody Mr. Trump returned to resume his stump speech.

Television footage showed a white male suspect pinioned on the ground by officers and searched, before he was led away by local law enforcement, including an armed response team in tactical dress with rifles.

The candidate appeared unrattled by the scuffle and spoke with his usual self-confidence, finishing his planned remarks and accepting the applause of the crowd before returning to his campaign plane safely.

“I would like to thank the United States Secret Service and the law enforcement resources in Reno and the state of Nevada for their fast and professional response,” he said in a campaign statement.

A CNN reporter at the venue cited unnamed local law enforcement sources as saying there had been a report of a gun in the crowd and a suspect in custody.</s>Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, spoke during a campaign event Saturday at the Wilmington International Airport in North Carolina.

RENO - Donald Trump was rushed off stage Saturday night during a campaign rally here as security officials swarmed, but the candidate emerged back on stage after a few minutes and finished his speech.

Some kind of a disturbance had occurred in the front of the room where Trump was speaking. He put his hand above his eyes to peer out into the crowd. As he did so, a security official rushed to Trump's side and escorted him off stage. People near the front of the room suddenly scattered as U.S. Secret Service and uniformed officers jumped the barricades to apprehend an unidentified man.

Trump later concluded his rally without further incident. It was not immediately clear what the cause of the disturbance was. CNN, citing "a law enforcement official," reported that no weapon had been found and that no eyewitnesses reported seeing a gun.

The GOP presidential nominee later released a statement thanking the Secret Service and local law enforcement for their "fast and professional response," adding that "nothing will stop us - we will make America great again!"

Meanwhile, a press bus carrying reporters covering Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen Tim Kaine's stops in Florida was hit at high speed, according to reporters traveling with the senator. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Kaine was several cars ahead of the press bus, according to reporters in his motorcade.

Earlier in the day, Hillary Clinton's campaign announced she will campaign in Michigan on Monday, as polls show her once-comfortable lead in the state eroding and as Trump eyes it as a potential way to come from behind in the hunt for electoral votes.

That announcement from the Clinton campaign came as Trump also rejiggered his itinerary, making plans for last-minute stops in Virginia, where Clinton has led but Republicans are catching up.

The GOP nominee spent Saturday hopscotching the country, rallying with supporters in North Carolina, as well as Florida, Colorado and Nevada - and he announced plans to visit Minnesota, a traditionally Democratic state where polls showing him trailing by about five points. In his speech in Nevada late Saturday, Trump attacked elections officials for allowing a predominantly Hispanic early voting site in the Las Vegas area to stay open for "hours and hours."

President Barack Obama will also campaign in Michigan on Monday, suggesting that Democrats see danger signs there. Clinton will be in Grand Rapids, Obama in Ann Arbor. Former president Bill Clinton will make a stop in Lansing on Sunday.

"There are just three days left in this most consequential election," Clinton told a cheering crowd of about 10,000 an open-air rally and concert in Philadelphia on Saturday night.

Clinton noted the millions of people of have voted early and urged Pennsylvania voters to help "send a message" about American values and ideals.

"I believe they are standing up for a hopeful, inclusive vision of America and I'm asking you to stand up for that same vision," Clinton said.

Over the last two weeks much of Clinton's focus has been on Florida and North Carolina, as well as Nevada, where early voting is now winding down.

But her campaign manager Robby Mook, conceded to reporters on Saturday that "we have seen tightening in the Midwest generally this cycle, and we are taking that seriously."

Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri told reporters Saturday that in addition to a previously announced stop in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Sunday night, Clinton will add a rally in Cleveland earlier Sunday. On Monday in addition to Michigan, Clinton will add a midnight rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. Another large evening rally had also been announced for Philadelphia that night.

Palmieri said that Khizr Khan will speak at the New Hampshire rally. Khan is the father of fallen soldier Humayun Khan, whose challenge to Trump over the Republican's proposed ban on Muslim immigration was among the most memorable moments of the Democratic convention.

Trump's focus on Saturday night was Nevada, where polls show the race tied.

Campaigning in Reno, Trump denounced a decision by elections officials to keep open an early voting site "for hours and hours."

Early voting totals in Clark County, Nev., which encompasses Las Vegas, topped 57,000, according to local officials. A supermarket doubling as an early-voting site in the county was allowed to stay open for two additional hours on Friday night as thousands of people remained in line to vote. It is customary for state elections officials across the country to authorize keeping a polling site open later if there are long lines at closing time.

Regardless, Trump claimed that officials allowed Clinton supporters to "bus and bring Democratic voters in. Folks, it's a rigged system. It's a rigged system and we're going to beat it. We're going to beat it. I've been saying it's a rigged system."

Trump continued his emphasis on Clinton's emails controversy throughout the day Saturday, citing the FBI's announcement last week that it would revive an inquiry into her use of a private email server at the State Department. In Reno, he said that if Clinton were elected, her presidency would lead to "an unprecedented constitutional crisis."

"We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial. It would grind government to a halt, of course that's what we have right now under Obama anyway," he told the crowd in Reno. "We need a government that can work, and work well from day one for the American people. That would be impossible with Hillary Clinton, the prime suspect in a far-reaching criminal investigation."

Trump, Pence and key campaign surrogates also will swing through Virginia this weekend and into Monday. Trump will hold a 10 p.m. rally Sunday at a fairgrounds in the Northern Virginia swing territory of Loudoun County, his campaign announced on Saturday. Pence was scheduled to appear at a suburban Richmond Saturday afternoon and at a rally at George Mason University at 8 p.m. Saturday. Two of Trump's children - Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump - are planning stops in Northern Virginia on Sunday and Monday, respectively.

In the closing days of the campaign, polling averages compiled by The Washington Post continue to show a close contest in several battleground states. In Michigan, Clinton now holds just a two-point edge over Trump, 43 to 41 percent. She also holds a slim lead in New Hampshire (43-41), which accounts for the renewed attention there in the closing days.

In Colorado, Clinton is up 43 percent to 41 percent. In Arizona, Trump leads by three points (46-43). Clinton is ahead by six points in New Mexico (40-34) and five points in North Carolina (48-43), Pennsylvania (47-42) and Wisconsin (45-40). She's up by four points in Virginia (45-41).

Trump holds a five-point lead in Ohio (46-41), where Clinton held a star-studded campaign rally on Friday night with rapper Jay-Z and Beyoncé, his wife.

The race remains tick-tock tight in Nevada, where the candidates are tied at 44 percent each. In Florida, Clinton has a one-point, 47 to 46 percent advantage. Trump leads in Georgia (47-45); Iowa (46-41); and Utah (35-28) where third-party candidate Evan McMullin has been polling well.

Poll averages calculated by The Washington Post for Clinton and Trump reflect recent polls that also include McMullin, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein where they are on the ballot and where results are available.

As the race enters its final stretch, the Clinton campaign continues to push back aggressively against the FBI's decision to revive the inquiry into Clinton's email.

Campaigning in Florida on Saturday, Kaine, D-Virginia, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, sharply criticized the FBI and its director, James Comey for the development.

In an interview with the Fusion television network, Kaine faulted Comey for breaking agency protocol by discussing a politically sensitive case so close to an election.

Comey's decision to alert Congress about his review of the Clinton case "suggests that it's probably more likely explained that [Comey] knew that the FBI is not only a leaky sieve but there were people within the FBI actively working - actively working - to try to help the Trump campaign," Kaine said. "This just absolutely staggering, and it is a massive blow to the integrity of [the FBI]."

The Washington Post's John Wagner, Katie Zezima, Robert Barnes and Sarah Parnass in Washington and Laura Vozzella in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report. Gearan reported from Philadelphia and O'Keefe from Washington.</s>Exclusive : Self-declared Republican who sparked Nevada security scare says he was attacked for silently showing a sign he printed from the web

The man whose protest saw Donald Trump rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents has said the Republican nominee’s supporters turned on him when he held up a sign reading: “Republicans against Trump.”

The man, who identified himself as Austyn Crites from Reno, told the Guardian he was holding the sign at a rally when Trump supporters wrestled him to the ground.

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The 33-year-old – who says he has been a registered Republican for about six years – said he was kicked, punched and choked, and feared for his life when the crowd turned on him at the gathering in Reno, Nevada.

Crites cited Trump’s treatment of Mexicans, Muslims and women as the reason he decided to protest again Trump, who he described as “a textbook version of a dictator and a fascist”.

There were panicked scenes at the Trump rally, apparently prompted by shouts from at least one person in the crowd that the protester had a gun.

Hundreds of people fled to the the back of the auditorium in panic as Trump was hurriedly rushed from the stage by his security detail.

Moments later, Trump reappeared on stage and said: “Nobody said it was going to be easy but we will never be stopped. We will never be stopped.”

The US Secret Service later said in a statement that no weapon was found on the subject detained at the rally, who had been released.

The Guardian found a bruised and shocked-looking Crites outside the auditorium. He said he was shaken and had pain in the back, but was otherwise uninjured.

Crites, who said he was an inventor who works with high-altitude balloons, said the incident occurred after he walked toward the front of the stage to protest silently against Trump.

He confirmed witness descriptions of him moving through the crowd toward the front. However, he said he was not barging through but saying: “Can I please come through, can I please come through.”

When he was near the front of the crowd, he said he silently held aloft his sign.

I had a sign that said ‘Republicans against Trump’. It is a sign that you can just print off online Austyn Crites, protester

“I had a sign that said ‘Republicans against Trump.’ It is a sign that you can just print off online.”

Initially, there was the expected reaction of people around him booing, he said. “And then all of a sudden people next to me are starting to get violent; they’re grabbing at my arm, trying to rip the sign out of my hand,” he said.

He said he could not be sure but “it looked like” Trump was pointing at him, and may have been “instigating something”. Either way, the crowd piled on him, he said, kicking, punching, holding him on the ground and grabbing his testicles.



He said he was a wrestler in his youth and used his training to turn his head to the side to maintain an airway open as he was being choked by one man who had him in a headlock. “But there were people wrenching on my neck they could have strangled me to death,” he added.

Crites said when he was on the ground he heard someone yell “something about a gun” and he kept telling those on top of him that he had merely been holding a sign.

He was unaware, until the Guardian told him, that Trump had been ushered from the stage amid the mayhem.



For his part, Crites said he felt relieved when police arrived and placed him in handcuffs, but said officers had to fend off Trump supporters who continued to attack him. “As I was taken from the room, people are just looking at me like I’m a demon,” he said.

He said he was taken to the back of the auditorium, searched, subjected to a background check and then swiftly released.

Several Trump supporters who witnessed the incident told the Guardian they saw a man wrestled to the ground and, after he was on the ground, heard shouts that he had a weapon, prompting panic.

One of those witnesses, a Trump supporter, said he had seen the protester holding a “Republicans against Trump” sign, and assumed it had been misidentified as a weapon.

Although he described himself as a Republican and fiscal conservative, Crites said he had canvassed “for a few hours” with the Clinton campaign in Nevada because he wanted to do all he could to prevent a Trump presidency

He said he was not fully supportive of Clinton but believed she was the only candidate who could stop Trump from reaching the White House.

Crites said he had not formal connection to the Clinton campaign and decided to attend the rally on his own volition.

“Evan [Evan] McMullin is someone I also support,” he said of the independent conservative standing for president on many states, and added that he backed Trump’s Republican opponents during the primaries. “John Kasich, for example, was a great candidate.”

Crites said he felt Trump supporters were well-meaning but simply misguided by Trump’s demagoguery. “He’s fascist, he’s a dictator,” he said of the Republican nominee, saying such leaders turn normal people “into animals”.

While he was surprised at what occurred at the rally, Crites he said he did not blame the crowd for his treatment. “I like these people,” he said. “These are my fellow Americans. I love these people. I understand that they came here because they’re patriotic, they want to do good for their country.”

He added: “The people who attacked me – I’m not blaming them. I’m blaming Donald Trump’s hate rhetoric.”

“My heart still aches for what this nation could potentially do by electing him,” he added. “That hurts me much more than any of this violence.”

“The fact that I got beat up today, that’s just showing what he’s doing to his crowds. But I just want people to understand I’m going to be OK, but now what’s more important is if the country going to be OK? So do your part and vote.”</s>NEW YORK | Donald Trump puts a premium on loyalty and has proven unable to let a slight go by unchallenged. He touts the facts that he likes — and casts doubts on the ones he doesn’t.

While he has a penchant for exaggeration and an often tenuous relationship with truth, the Republican nominee has also shown himself to be a fighter who rarely cedes ground, even in the face of enormous pressure to do so.

If the New York billionaire is elected to the White House on Tuesday, it’s reasonable to expect the persona exposed by 18 months as a candidate for president will be the one he brings to the Oval Office.

“Early on, Trump was seen as someone who was going to stick to his guns no matter what. He was going to say what was on his mind. And you know he’s going to take the consequences of that no matter what,” said Ed Brookover, a former senior campaign adviser.

That remains, Brookover said, the essence of who Trump is today.

Trump has often said during the campaign he knows more than academics, generals and other experts, and he has largely forgone the kind of intense study sessions favored by other candidates to learn about domestic and world affairs. He’s stuck by facts repeatedly debunked, the latest being his incorrect assertion that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wants to admit 650 million immigrants into the country — tripling the U.S. population “in one week.”

While he’s received briefings from U.S. intelligence officials, who have concluded Russia is behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, Trump routinely expresses doubt they were involved. “Our country has no idea,” he said during the third presidential debate.

Yet Brookover rejects the idea that Trump is a closed book unwilling to accept new information. He described a meeting this spring in Washington, at which Trump met with members of Congress who suggested he release a list of judges from which he’d select a nominee to the Supreme Court. Trump did so shortly after.

“He listens and takes in what people tell him a lot more than people give him credit for,” Brookover said.

Trump is also a candidate who appears incapable of ignoring a slight and is all too willing to respond with disproportionate force.

The day after accepting the presidential nomination at his party’s convention, he taunted dispatched rival Ted Cruz rather than focus on the general election campaign that had just begun. He’s put his standing among women and military families at risk by doubling down on his replies to the criticisms levied by the parents of a slain Army officer and a Latina beauty queen he shamed for gaining weight.

“I’ve been saying during this whole campaign that I’m a counter-puncher,” he once explained to Fox News Channel star Megyn Kelly, among those Trump has tangled with during the campaign. “I’m responding. Now, I then respond times maybe 10. I don’t know. I mean I respond pretty strongly. But in just about all cases, I’ve been responding to what they did to me.”

Eric Trump, one of Trump’s sons, cast his father in an interview as David taking on Goliath largely on his own.

“He’s had to take on the DNC, take on the corruption, a very, very biased media in so many cases,” Eric Trump said of his father. “He’s done that all by himself and me and quite frankly the American people. … I give him tremendous, tremendous credit because he soldiered so much weight on his own. He shouldered a movement to change this nation.”

While the presidential campaign is undoubtedly intense, the patterns of behavior Trump has displayed as the Republican nominee are likely to continue, said Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary to President George W. Bush.

“The campaign is a great indication of what will happen in a White House,” he said. While Trump has shown the ability to moderate, Fleischer said his counter-punching instinct could be “a disaster in the Oval Office,” where calm and level-headedness are crucial when something goes wrong.

“It would be even worse if he does it with majesty and the power of the presidency on his hands,” he said.

But friends and former aides, among them those who have known Trump for years, say the celebrity businessman defined by his boisterous campaign rallies is very different behind closed doors. Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a former rival-turned-supporter, has described “two different Donald Trumps.”

“There’s the one you see on the stage and there’s the one who’s very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully,” he said during a recent endorsement speech.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, another Trump adviser, put it another way. With the risks of Trump saying things that are unwise comes, too, the benefits of a leader who is a “truly a historic figure” able to effectively communicate his ideas to millions of people.

“So, it’s a funny paradox,” Gingrich said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” ”On the one hand, he’s one of the most brilliant marketers I’ve ever seen. And on the other hand, for a while there, he was undercutting himself. I suspect if he had not done that, he’d be ahead by ten or 15 points right now.”

Associated Press writer Scott Bauer contributed to this report from Madison, Wisconsin.</s>NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump puts a premium on loyalty and has proven unable to let a slight go by unchallenged. He touts the facts that he likes — and casts doubts on the ones he doesn’t.

While he has a penchant for exaggeration and an often tenuous relationship with truth, the Republican nominee has also shown himself to be a fighter who rarely cedes ground, even in the face of enormous pressure to do so.

If the New York billionaire is elected to the White House on Tuesday, it’s reasonable to expect the persona exposed by 18 months as a candidate for president will be the one he brings to the Oval Office.

“Early on, Trump was seen as someone who was going to stick to his guns no matter what. He was going to say what was on his mind. And you know he’s going to take the consequences of that no matter what,” said Ed Brookover, a former senior campaign adviser.

That remains, Brookover said, the essence of who Trump is today.

Trump has often said during the campaign he knows more than academics, generals and other experts, and he has largely forgone the kind of intense study sessions favored by other candidates to learn about domestic and world affairs. He’s stuck by facts repeatedly debunked, the latest being his incorrect assertion that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wants to admit 650 million immigrants into the country — tripling the U.S. population “in one week.”

While he’s received briefings from U.S. intelligence officials, who have concluded Russia is behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, Trump routinely expresses doubt they were involved. “Our country has no idea,” he said during the third presidential debate.

Yet Brookover rejects the idea that Trump is a closed book unwilling to accept new information. He described a meeting this spring in Washington, at which Trump met with members of Congress who suggested he release a list of judges from which he’d select a nominee to the Supreme Court. Trump did so shortly after.

“He listens and takes in what people tell him a lot more than people give him credit for,” Brookover said.

Trump is also a candidate who appears incapable of ignoring a slight and is all too willing to respond with disproportionate force.

The day after accepting the presidential nomination at his party’s convention, he taunted dispatched rival Ted Cruz rather than focus on the general election campaign that had just begun. He’s put his standing among women and military families at risk by doubling down on his replies to the criticisms levied by the parents of a slain Army officer and a Latina beauty queen he shamed for gaining weight.

“I’ve been saying during this whole campaign that I’m a counter-puncher,” he once explained to Fox News Channel star Megyn Kelly, among those Trump has tangled with during the campaign. “I’m responding. Now, I then respond times maybe 10. I don’t know. I mean I respond pretty strongly. But in just about all cases, I’ve been responding to what they did to me.”

Eric Trump, one of Trump’s sons, cast his father in an interview as David taking on Goliath largely on his own.

“He’s had to take on the DNC, take on the corruption, a very, very biased media in so many cases,” Eric Trump said of his father. “He’s done that all by himself and me and quite frankly the American people. … I give him tremendous, tremendous credit because he soldiered so much weight on his own. He shouldered a movement to change this nation.”

While the presidential campaign is undoubtedly intense, the patterns of behavior Trump has displayed as the Republican nominee are likely to continue, said Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary to President George W. Bush.

“The campaign is a great indication of what will happen in a White House,” he said. While Trump has shown the ability to moderate, Fleischer said his counter-punching instinct could be “a disaster in the Oval Office,” where calm and level-headedness are crucial when something goes wrong.

“It would be even worse if he does it with majesty and the power of the presidency on his hands,” he said.

But friends and former aides, among them those who have known Trump for years, say the celebrity businessman defined by his boisterous campaign rallies is very different behind closed doors. Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a former rival-turned-supporter, has described “two different Donald Trumps.”

“There’s the one you see on the stage and there’s the one who’s very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully,” he said during a recent endorsement speech.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, another Trump adviser, put it another way. With the risks of Trump saying things that are unwise comes, too, the benefits of a leader who is a “truly a historic figure” able to effectively communicate his ideas to millions of people.

“So, it’s a funny paradox,” Gingrich said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” ”On the one hand, he’s one of the most brilliant marketers I’ve ever seen. And on the other hand, for a while there, he was undercutting himself. I suspect if he had not done that, he’d be ahead by ten or 15 points right now.”

Associated Press writer Scott Bauer contributed to this report from Madison, Wisconsin.</s>Republican Donald Trump was rushed off stage by security agents at a rally in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday night after a perceived security threat as he and Democrat Hillary Clinton swept across states that could prove decisive in Tuesday’s presidential election.

Two security agents seized Trump by the shoulders and hustled him backstage as police officers swarmed over a white male in the front of the crowd and held him face down on the ground while they searched him.

Moments later, the man was escorted by police away with his hands behind his back. Trump, seemingly unruffled, returned to the stage and continued his campaign speech.

“Nobody said it was going to be easy for us,” he said. “But we will never be stopped.”

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The Secret Service later said the incident erupted when an unidentified individual in front of the stage shouted “gun.”

“Secret Service agents and Reno Police Officers immediately apprehended the subject. Upon a thorough search of the subject and the surrounding area, no weapon was found,” the Secret Service said in a statement.

“A thorough investigation is ongoing at this time by the U.S. Secret Service and the Reno Police Department,” it said.

The incident began when Trump noticed what he considered a heckler. A few seconds later people near the stage began pointing at someone in the crowd near the front.

Then agents took Trump away.

In a statement, Trump thanked the Secret Service, Reno and Nevada law enforcement for “their fast and professional response.”

The incident occurred as Clinton and Trump make their closing arguments to American voters, crisscrossing the United States in hopes of winning over last-minute undecided voters and rallying their bases to turn out enthusiastically on Election Day.

In Philadelphia, pop singer Katy Perry performed at a Clinton rally, the latest in a string of celebrity appearances aimed at getting out the vote among millennials.

“When your kids and grandkids ask you what you did in 2016, when it was all on the line, I want you be able to say you voted for a better, stronger, America,” Clinton said.

Opinion polls show Clinton still holds advantages in states that could be critical in deciding the election. But her lead has narrowed after a revelation a week ago that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was looking into a new trove of emails as part of its probe into her handling of classified information while she was secretary of state.

A McClatchy-Marist opinion poll released on Saturday of voters nationwide showed Clinton leading by 1 percentage point compared to 6 percentage points in September. A Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll on Saturday showed Clinton ahead by 4 percentage points nationally compared to 5 points on Friday.

Both candidates spent time in Florida, considered one of the most hotly contested states. The 2000 presidential election was decided in Florida after a dispute over votes and recounting of ballots went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in favour of Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore.

The Real Clear Politics average of Florida opinion polls found Clinton with a lead of about 1 percentage point – indicating the race there is a virtual tie.

Trump spoke at a rally on Saturday morning in Tampa, Florida, where he continued to criticize Clinton for supporting the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, in the wake of an announcement that premiums are going to rise next year.

“It’s not going to matter because if we win I’m throwing it out anyway,” Trump said.

Shortly before Clinton took the stage in Pembroke Pines, Florida, rain poured down. People in the crowd waiting for Clinton at the outdoor rally remained in place, taking out umbrellas and fashioning garbage bags into head coverings.

“I’m thrilled to be here and boy is this a hardy group, rain or shine you are ready,” Clinton said, her voice cracking with hoarseness.

She cut her speech short as she became soaked in rain, saying, “I don’t think I need to tell you all of the wrong things about Donald Trump.”

At the JFK library in Hialeah, Florida, people lined up outside for early voting. Nearby, supporters of both candidates waved signs and shouted slogans, urging passing drivers to honk their horns.

“We want someone to come in and clean house,” said Cuban-American Ariel Martinez, 42, a Trump supporter.

Early voting began in September and the data firm Catalist estimates more than 30 million ballots have been cast in 38 states. There are an estimated 225.8 million eligible U.S. voters. Saturday was the final day for early voting in many Florida counties.

Trump and Clinton campaigns adjusted travel schedules for the next two days to states where they saw opportunity.

Trump told the crowd in Tampa that there would be a campaign event in Minnesota this weekend, although one had not previously been scheduled. Minnesota has not voted for a Republican since 1984. His campaign confirmed a rally scheduled for Wisconsin on Sunday has been cancelled.

Clinton started the day by stopping by the West Miami Community Center, a Cuban American neighbourhood, with telenovela star Jencarlos Canela, a Miami native of Cuban descent.

She then visited her campaign’s office in Little Haiti where there is a large concentration of Haitian-American residents. Clinton was joined by Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was shot dead in 2012 by a Sanford, Florida neighbourhood watchman, George Zimmerman.

While Trump prefers large-scale rallies, Clinton has filled her campaign schedule with targeted appearances meant to court voters in specific demographics. Cuban voters have historically favoured Republicans, but younger generations have shifted toward Democratic Party candidates.

In what was seen as an effort to defend typically Democratic turf, Clinton on Monday will campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan, before returning to Pennsylvania for a rally in Philadelphia with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, and former President Bill Clinton.

Trump is to make stops on Sunday in Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia to try to steal away some states that have gone Democratic in recent presidential elections.</s>RENO — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was hustled offstage at a rally Saturday evening but returned after a brief, hectic interlude involving someone attending the event.

Trump left abruptly after calling out a person he said was a Clinton supporter amid a crowd of a few thousand Trump supporters. Trump was finishing a 30-minute speech when the incident occurred.

“We have one of those guys from the Hillary Clinton campaign,” Trump said. “How much are you being paid, $1,500?”

The crowd milled around the individual as the incident played out at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

A few seconds later, the press corps traveling with Trump was told to leave to get to the airport for Trump’s departure.

But after a hectic few minutes, Trump returned to the stage to finish his remarks.

The Republican presidential nominee had been speaking to supporters for a while when the disturbance broke out in the crowd close to the lectern. Two Secret Service agents quickly surrounded Trump and hustled him away.

In a statement shortly after the incident, the Secret Service said a person in front of the stage had shouted “Gun!” but that no weapon was found after a search of the person and the immediate area. A man was apprehended, but officials did not identify the person or disclose whether the person had been charged with a crime.

The Secret Service’s statement noted that magnetometers are used at presidential campaign sites.

“All general public attending these events must go through a magnetometer screening prior to entering a protected area,” the agency said.

Paul Lewis, a U.S. West Coast bureau chief for the British newspaper The Guardian, tweeted that the apprehended man was 33-year-old Austyn Crites, who had been carrying a “Republicans Against Trump” sign.

Lewis interviewed Crites after he’d been released. Lewis tweeted that Crites said he was terrified by how the crowd responded, saying, “I was in survival mode. I knew I could die at that moment.”

The incident is under investigation.

After the incident, Trump issued a statement, expressing thanks to the Secret Service and the law enforcement resources in Reno and the state of Nevada “for their fast and professional response.”

“I also want to thank the many thousands of people present for their unwavering and unbelievable support,” he said. “Nothing will stop us — we will make America great again!”

Earlier in his remarks, Trump predicted a victory for his campaign in Nevada and a GOP return to the White House on Election Day on Tuesday.

“You have to vote with your heart,” Trump said. “You have to vote with your soul to make America great again. Real change means restoring honesty to our government.”

Trump told the cheering crowd they have two choices on Tuesday: a vote for a government run by special interests and donors who “control crooked Hillary Clinton” or a vote for a government “run by you, the American people.”

Polls show a tight race between Trump and Clinton in this battleground state, where Democrats statewide hold an 89,000 advantage over the GOP in active registered voters.

But through the end of early voting in Nevada on Friday, Democrats had an edge going into Tuesday’s general election.

Nevertheless, Republican speakers at the rally said GOP turnout on Tuesday will make up for the difference and generate six electoral votes for Trump.

Trump repeated his common themes at the Reno stop, saying he will repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and stop jobs from leaving the United States and Nevada. The hemorrhaging of jobs will be stopped by reducing the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent, he said.

It was Trump’s second visit to Nevada in a week. He campaigned in Las Vegas a week ago. His last visit to Reno was in early October, though his vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, campaigned in Reno twice within a week’s time late last month.

The crowd cheered at nearly everything Trump had to say, including his oft-repeated proposal to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. Trump said Clinton supports open borders and sanctuary cities, and he cited examples of where violent acts were committed by people who are not legally residing in the United States.

The Associated Press reported Saturday that Trump accused officials of wrongly keeping polling sites open late in Clark County to boost Democratic early voting turnout.

There appears to be no evidence that is the case, the AP added.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

Contact Sean Whaley at swhaley@reviewjournal.com or 775-461-3820. Follow @seanw801 on Twitter.</s>The day before the 2016 general election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will return to where it all started in Florida.

On Monday, Trump will hold a rally at Robarts Arena in Sarasota starting at 11 a.m.

Sarasota GOP Chairman Joe Gruters, who serves as Trump’s co-chairman in Florida, opened the nominee’s first state field office downtown a year ago.</s>CLOSE A video from crowdmember Donald Newton of Santa Rosa, Calif., during an incident in Reno when Donald Trump was rushed off stage.

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks Nov. 5, 2016, during a campaign rally in Reno, Nev. (Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)

RENO, Nev. — Two Secret Service agents hurried Donald Trump off the stage at a Nevada political rally Saturday night after a disturbance broke out in the crowd not far from where the Republican presidential nominee was speaking.

With some attendees at the Reno event recording the incident on their phones, law-enforcement officials quickly brought the situation under control and officers were seen leading one man out of the event. One person at the rally had yelled "gun," but no weapon was found, according to a Trump campaign statement.

MSNBC later reported that the protester was let go.

Moments after the incident, Trump returned to speak, briefly alluding to the commotion and thanking the Secret Service before going on to prepared remarks.

"Nobody said it was going to be easy for us but we will never be stopped. I want to thank the Secret Service. They don’t get enough credit. They’re amazing people," Trump said.

@realDonaldTrump retakes stage after scary incident in Reno NV: "No one said it would be easy for us ... we will never be stopped." — Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) November 6, 2016

Donald Newton, 47, of Santa Rosa, Calif., was right next to the bedlam when it happened and took video of the immediate aftermath. Newton said a man holding a sign started going toward the stage.

“He had something on his belly. I don’t know what it was,” Newton said. “Somebody yelled 'gun' and everyone jumped on him. My friend put his knee on his head, but he kept getting up.”

After Trump returned to the stage, the GOP nominee began talking about political issues.

Watch Trump get rushed off stage by Secret Service during rally in Nevada https://t.co/3ZSJDgyhRL — MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 6, 2016

"So, let’s get back to repealing the defense sequester. Right now it doesn’t sound that exciting, but it’s very important," the candidate said.

Trump issued a statement through his campaign:

I would like to thank the United States Secret Service and the law enforcement resources in Reno and the state of Nevada for their fast and professional response. I also want to thank the many thousands of people present for their unwavering and unbelievable support. Nothing will stop us — we will make America great again!

Bill Keveney of USA TODAY reported from Los Angeles. Seth A. Richardson of the Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal reported from Reno. Follow them on Twitter: @billkev and @SethARichardson.

Here is the man in question, in handcuffs, being searched by officers after he was escorted out of the rally area. pic.twitter.com/pjoMCtM39K — Jacob Rascon (@Jacobnbc) November 6, 2016

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A false alarm leads to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump being rushed off stage by United States Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada. A man, reportedly carrying a gun, was escorted out of the venue by security officers shortly following the incident; however, further inspection revealed no weapons on his person. The man was brandishing a "Republicans against Trump" sign.