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Trump, Clinton Hitting Swing States With Final Pitches for the Presidency

by VOA News

   A year and a half of campaigning comes down to one final day Monday as
   Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton make a last pitch to American voters
   before they choose their next president.

   Each candidate is focusing Monday's events in so-called swing states
   that will play a big role in which of them gets elected.

   Clinton has stops planned in Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania,
   culminating with an evening rally in Philadelphia along with her
   husband, former President Bill Clinton, as well as President Barack
   Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.

   Trump has stops planned in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and
   New Hampshire. He had a similarly busy day Sunday, with his final event
   of the day actually not starting until the early hours of Monday in
   Virginia.

   He told the crowd in the town of Leesburg, not far from Washington,
   that Tuesday's election would be "Brexit times 50," in reference to the
   surprising result of the British referendum earlier this year to leave
   the European Union. Like Trump, the "leave" side of that vote trailed
   in polls going into Election Day.

   Trump spoke in Pennsylvania before going to Virginia, telling
   supporters there that Clinton is "the most corrupt person" to ever run
   for president in the U.S.

   "Investigations into her crimes will go on for a long, long time," he
   said, adding that voters could "deliver justice" with their vote.

   FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during
   a campaign rally at Cleveland Public Hall in Cleveland, Nov. 6, 2016.

   Email matter settled, again

   His comments came hours after James Comey, the director of the Federal
   Bureau of Investigation, told Congress a new review of emails related
   to Clinton's tenure as secretary of state revealed no evidence of
   criminal activity.

   Comey had declared in July that while Clinton's use of a private email
   system was careless, "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue a criminal
   case against her. Last week the issue reemerged when the FBI said it
   was focusing again on Clinton's emails after finding a large batch of
   messages in an unrelated case involving former Congressman Anthony
   Wiener.

   "Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we
   expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton," Comey wrote
   Sunday.

   The Clinton campaign welcomed the announcement, with communications
   chief Jennifer Palmieri saying the team was confident Comey would reach
   that conclusion.

   Part of the Nov. 6, 2016, letter from FBI director James Comey to
   Congress.

   "We're glad that this matter is resolved," she told reporters.

   In her own events Sunday, Clinton sought to portray her candidacy as
   starkly different from Trump's.

   "I think it's fair to say after all the months of this campaign, my
   opponent has a very dark and divisive view of our country," she told
   supporters in New Hampshire. "Sometimes when I hear him speak, I don't
   honestly recognize the country that he is talking about."

   She added that she thinks it is important to believe in a hopeful,
   united and inclusive country.

   The election is Tuesday. The new president takes office on January 20.