As campaign closes, the Obamas pass the torch to Clinton

There was an open question whether Hillary Clinton could reassemble the coalition that helped power President Barack Obama to back-to-back election victories in 2008 and 2012.

In the place where America’s democracy took root, with tens of thousands shivering in the cold, Barack and Michelle Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton in an emotional but anxious plea to elect her president.

New Hampshire has four electorate votes and a competitive state that generally leans Democratic in presidential elections.

It’s the final voting day in the most contentious United States elections ever to decide who will be Barack Obama’s successor.

Clinton recounted, among other things, her meeting with Khizr Kahn, the father of a Muslim-American soldier who died protecting his unit in Iraq. ” … It really represents an opportunity to build on something, for all the partisan divides that will remain even after tonight”.

MI coach Jim Harbaugh takes pictures with fans following President Obama’s rally for Hillary Clinton.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has said she is “grateful” for the “amazing” support she got from Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle and acknowledged that the outgoing U.S. president is leaving “big shoes” to fill.

In Portsmouth, Ohio, Vada Royster, 44, said she voted for Clinton based on her experience for the job.

“It’s been pretty hard not to vote because I feel like every vote counts in this election because it’s so neck-and-neck”, she said.

Hillary Clinton at a Pittsburgh rally on Monday.

. “She knows it, the Federal Bureau of Investigation knows it, the people know it”, he said at a huge rally at Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump both have stops scheduled today in Grand Rapids as the campaign wraps up.

While Obama, the first African-American president in US history, could have been asked to go to Detroit to pump up the black vote, it was clear that his presence here was aimed at another audience – millennials.

“Eight years ago, I asked all of you to join me on an unlikely journey”, Obama said.

Others said they were most excited to see the Obama before they left the White House.

He said, “If you’re willing to reject fear again, if you’re willing to embrace hope again, then we will finish what we started, we will elect Hillary as president”. “I think if Trump wins, it will change the world and I wish we had a chance to vote”.

Some 15 percent of Americans who cast a ballot on Tuesday said it was their first time voting in a presidential election, up from 9 percent in 2012, the poll showed.

“She laid out the stakes in the election, calling it not just a choice between two candidates but between two very different visions for the country”.

“The answer’s yes”, Obama said in Independence Mall, not far from the Liberty Bell.