P&J’s Westminster reporter Lindsay Razaq, in Detroit, Michigan.
The 11th-hour push for votes in race for the White House reached fever pitch today with the two main candidates going head to head in the same state.
Both camps have been garnering last-minute support in Michigan before polls close tomorrow.
After a long, highly personal campaign that has set friends and neighbours against each other, election day has finally arrived.
At a frenzied rally in Sterling Heights near Detroit on Sunday, Donald Trump predicted he would win the presidency in the style of “Brexit plus”.
The Republican nominee was also due to make a final pitch late last night in Grand Rapids, a city north-west of Detroit.
From the other side of the court, Barack Obama spoke on behalf of Hillary Clinton at the University of Michigan in Ann Abor yesterday.
The Democratic candidate was also on the campaign trail, opting to hold her “get out the vote” rally in Grand Rapids too.
Michigan has emerged as an unlikely battleground state, having not voted Republican for president since 1988.
Trump has been gaining on Clinton and it remains in his sights.
But the fact the former first lady has been cleared in the reopened e-mail probe, may shore up her support in the traditionally blue area.
This has not stopped Trump from continuing to use the issue as ammunition against her.
“Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency,” he said at the weekend.
“The investigation into her crimes will go on for a long, long time.”
Just hours before, FBI Director James Comey had confirmed the agency’s earlier opinion that she should not face criminal charges after a review of new e-mails.
Whipping up his fans in front of a huge US flag, Trump said: “We are going to win like they have never seen. This is going to be Brexit plus.
“A Trump administration will never ever put the interests of a foreign country before the interests of our country.
“From now on it’s going to be America first. It’s time for change, time for leadership.
“Together we will make America wealthy again, we will make America strong and powerful… We will make America great again.”
He pledged to repeal and replace Obamacare and to “end government corruption”.
The businessman added: “My contract with the American voter begins with a pledge to end government corruption and take our country back from the special interests.
“I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear the words we all have to say when we win – “We are going to drain the swamp”.
He continued: “We will become a rich nation once again, but to be a rich nation we must also be a safe nation.”
To boos directed at Clinton he added: “She wants … virtually unlimited immigration from the most dangerous regions of the world.
“Her plan will import generations of terrorism, extremism and radicalism into your schools and your communities.”
Among those at the Trump rally was Thomas Argyle, 63, from Detroit, who described the tycoon as “our Robin Hood”.
He added: “He’s an honest man, he’s not deceitful. We are used to drinking the cool aid, it’s good to be refreshed with some truth. We like the guy, he talks to us.”
Xavier Musgrove, 31, from Pasadena in California, is impressed by his business credentials
The film company chief operating officer said: “He’s (only) saying out loud what other people are saying behind closed doors.
“He’s just being human … As long as he can do what he says he’s going to do, then I’m all for it.”
Phillis Decker, 80, is also backing Trump having been a lifelong Democrat.
She walked to the rally even though she has had a knee replacement because she wanted to hear the nominee speak.
