Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Race for President reaches final few hours


The polls are now open as America moves to elect its 45th president and the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remains close.
The investigations into Clinton's use of a private email server have now been concluded with no charges to be brought against the Democrat candidate. But the revelations last weekend have already done enough to give Trump momentum into the final week.
The news that the FBI had reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server last weekend handed Donald Trump an unexpected boost ahead of the vote.
The FBI obtained a warrant to begin searching newly discovered emails belonging to Huma Abedin, a top aide of Hillary Clinton, with Clinton's use of emails also in the spotlight.
It seemed likely that Clinton would have to finish the campaign with unspecified allegations hanging over her. But she still retained the lead, according to polling figures, despite it having been narrowed to within a couple of percentage points.
Yesterday, however, the FBI cleared Clinton of any criminal wrongdoing, something she will hope will see more voters swing her way in the polling booths.
Clinton has been ahead almost continuously in the Telegraph's poll of polls, which takes an average of the last five polls published on RealClearPolitics.

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