WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
3:55 p.m.
Donald Trump is barnstorming New Hampshire in a last-ditch effort to grab the state’s four Electoral College votes, a critical piece of his path to victory.
Hillary Clinton is acutely aware that her path is narrowing and she’s hitting back. The former secretary of state has added a stop in the state on Sunday. And she’s sending President Barack Obama to make her closing argument there Monday in the state he won twice.
New Hampshire has voted for Democrats in every presidential race since 2004. But a trio of polls released Thursday showed the candidates virtually tied in New Hampshire. Nearly all earlier polls in the state throughout the campaign showed a Clinton lead.
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3:45 p.m.
President Barack Obama says the reality TV nature of the election isn’t like “Survivor” or “The Bachelorette.” He says, “it’s like some ‘Love and Hip Hop’ stuff.”
Obama is referring to the VH1 reality show about the music industry during a rally for Hillary Clinton in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It’s one of two rallies Obama is holding for Clinton in the state Friday.
The president is warning voters that the U.S. can’t tolerate the degradation of politics that he attributed to Trump’s campaign.
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3:40 p.m.
President Barack Obama is chastising supporters at a Hillary Clinton rally who turned on a protester supporting Donald Trump.
Obama was interrupted at a rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, by a man in a military-style outfit with a Trump sign shouting “Trump” over and over. The crowd quickly erupted and one man nearby reached out with his hand in an attempt to silence the protester.
Obama told the crowd to sit down and be quiet. He says the protester was “not doing nothing” and wasn’t a concern.
He says if Democrats lose focus, they’ll be in trouble on Election Day.
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3:20 p.m.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager says the Democratic presidential nominee is building a “firewall” in states with early voting.
In a conference call with reporters Friday, Robby Mook touted early vote turnout in North Carolina, Florida and Nevada. He said the campaign is working to “build up a lead that Donald Trump is incapable of overcoming.”
Mook said the campaign was targeting voters who were less likely to participate and estimated that at least 40 percent of registered voters have already cast ballots in those states. He said Trump will have to “outperform Romney on Election Day” to pull ahead in those states. He was referring to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Mook said Clinton was winning support from the “Hillary Coalition.” He said that includes Latinos, Asian-Americans and college-educated women.
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2:05 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is celebrating a new jobs report that shows U.S. employers added 161,000 jobs to the workforce last month.
She’s telling voters at a rally in Pittsburgh that the new report marks 73 straight months of job growth.
She said she believes the “economy is poised to really take off and thrive.” She said: “When the middle class thrives, American thrives.”
Clinton said rival Donald Trump would create an economy that would benefit the richest Americans, including his own family.
With early voting almost complete, her campaign is focusing battlegrounds like Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire in the final days of the race. The majority of voters in those key swing states cast ballots on Tuesday, Election Day.
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1:55 p.m.
Donald Trump is continuing to hit on the cloud of controversy that hangs over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
He summed it up to an Atkinson, New Hampshire, audience Friday by saying: “What a mess.”
He added: “And all she had to do is follow the rules.”
Trump was referring to controversies surrounding Clinton’s use of a private email system while secretary of state and the work of the Clinton family foundation.
Trump again speculated, without evidence, that, a Clinton presidency would be marred by investigations and trials, creating “an unprecedented constitutional crisis.” The FBI recommended against charging anyone in connection with the email setup this summer.
Trump also accused the Department of Justice of doing everything it can “to protect their angel.”
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1:40 p.m.
Donald Trump is claiming a new jobs report shows the U.S. economy is in bad shape.
Trump was speaking at a rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire as he tries to win a state that appears increasingly up for grabs.
His rally came hours after the government reported that employers added 161,000 jobs to the workforce in October. The report also showed that workers received their best pay raises in seven years.
Trump called the numbers “an absolute disaster.” He said the growth rate isn’t good enough and unemployment is still too high. He has long argued that the unemployment numbers released every month by the government are skewed because they don’t include groups such as those who’ve stopped looking for jobs.
He said, “Nobody believes the numbers they’re reporting anyway.”
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1:20 p.m.
Donald Trump’s legion of followers is growing confident of his victory in the presidential race — and many say they would refuse to accept his defeat.
They are reinforced by tightening poll numbers and renewed scrutiny of Hillary Clinton’s emails just days before Election Day.
Nancy Fraize of New Hampshire says, “we’re going to win” and if Trump doesn’t “we’ll all be at the White House sitting on the front lawn. In arms.”
In more than two dozen interviews conducted in battleground states in recent days, Trump supporters are nearly uniformly confident about their candidate’s chances. Many say they feel he has momentum after the FBI’s decision to review emails that may related to Clinton’s private server.
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12:35 p.m.
An introductory speaker at a Donald Trump rally is pushing back against an audience member who shouted “Execute her” about Hillary Clinton.
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu had been discussing the FBI’s discovery of emails that may be related to its dormant investigation of Clinton.
That’s when a man in the crowd Friday in Atkinson, New Hampshire yelled out “Execute her!” amid chants of “Lock her up!”
While such rhetoric is not unusual at Trump rallies, Sununu paused for a moment to chastise the man.
He said, “No, you don’t need that kind of stuff, really and truly. There’s a limit to what’s acceptable.”
Sununu did not support Trump in the primary, but now says that Clinton “makes it damn easy” for him to back his party’s nominee.
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12:25 p.m.
Georgia has broken an early voting record set eight years ago.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the state’s top elections official, announced Friday that Georgians have cast more than 2,180,000 early ballots. That’s over 50,000 more than were cast in 2008.
Kemp says the number will continue to climb Friday, the last day of advance in-person voting.
Republican Donald Trump is favored in Georgia, long a Republican stronghold. But some polls suggest the race could be tight.
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12:10 p.m.
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is campaigning in Michigan for a second consecutive day, telling supporters to “have faith” that Donald Trump will be elected president.
Michigan has backed Democrats in every presidential race since 1992. But the Indiana governor told about 150 people at the Lansing airport Friday that Trump’s “movement is coming together” in the final days of the campaign.
Pence also will campaign in Greenville, North Carolina, and Miami on Friday.
Pence criticized the “fast and loose ethics” of Democrat Hillary Clinton. He also criticized the federal health care law and touted tax cuts to boost the economy.
His Michigan stop was hours before Clinton planned to rally Democrats in Detroit, where a large turnout of black voters has long been crucial to Democrats’ success.
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9 a.m.
The number of early voters in Florida has already exceeded the total from 2012, with voting continuing through the weekend.
State election officials reported Friday that nearly 5.3 million Floridians have voted by mail or at polling precincts. In 2012, the total figure was nearly 4.8 million.
The voting between Republicans and Democrats is just about even with Republicans having an edge of less than 2,000 votes. Nearly 1 million voters registered with no party affiliation have also voted.
Polls indicate a tight race in the state between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump must win the state to have a chance at collecting the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Both candidates have made repeated swings through the state.
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3:30 a.m.
While Hillary Clinton accuses Donald Trump of appealing to hatred, the Republican nominee predicts that never-ending investigations will prevent his Democratic opponent from governing effectively.
Polls are showing Trump closing in on Clinton in key battleground states. Her campaign is rushing to shore up support in Michigan and other long-standing Democratic strongholds. Her shrunken lead is giving Trump’s campaign a glimmer of hope, one he’s trying to broaden into a breakthrough before time runs out with Tuesday’s election.
That means zeroing in on questions of Clinton’s trustworthiness and a new FBI review of an aide’s emails.
Clinton counters that Trump is unique for a major-party candidate in presidential politics, a nominee whose temperament and disparaging comments about women and minorities make him unfit for office.
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