Donald Trump says he will target "Democrat strongholds" like Minnesota in the final push.

"We're going to Minnesota, which traditionally has not been Republican at all," the nominee said at a rally in Florida this morning, adding "we're doing so well in places they don't believe".

The campaign recently cancelled an appearance in neighbouring Wisconsin, reportedly due to the NFL schedule. 

Read more about the campaigns closing strategies

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Meanwhile, the New Yorker magazine, has this humorous look at the Russian-sponsored hacking into the election.

BTW- Waukesha county is in Wisconsin.

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The BBC's Vincent Ni, external and Rajini Vaidyanathan, external have each had experiences today on the campaign trail with Vietnamese-Americans.

Vincent met Hoa, a 76-year-old woman in Virginia who came to the US as a refugee 41 years ago.

"I want to see a woman in the White House," said the woman, who boasted of hosting a Vietnamese-American women for Hillary event despite never having been active in politics. 

"I'm just an ordinary American citizen, but I've witnessed how far this country has progressed." 

Meanwhile in Florida, Rajini spoke to an American military veteran who served in Vietnam from 1968-69.

The man, who did not give his name, was selling campaign merchandise outside a Trump rally.

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Anyone born before 18 August 1920 in the US started life in a country that did not allow women to vote.  

Some female voters are still old enough to remember earning the right to vote, when the 19th amendment, external to the US constitution passed.

They, and the many others who have written to the website "I waited 96 years", external, have filled it with comments from Hillary Clinton supporters born before women's suffrage.  

"I remember accompanying my mother in a horse-drawn carriage to the polls in the first election when women, at long last, had the right to vote," wrote 103-year-old Juliet Bernstein from Massachusetts, who was born in 1913.

Read the full piece: Women that waited 96 years

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Local media are reporting that Donald Trump has cancelled a Sunday appearance in Wisconsin.

The decision, cited as due to "scheduling difficulties" by the campaign, may be due to the NFL schedule, as the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes, external. 

This week, the state's congressman and highest ranked Republican, Paul Ryan, said that he would campaign with Trump.

Speaking today in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, while campaigning with Mike Pence, Mr Ryan said that "if our nominee comes, we'll campaign with him."

Bernie Sanders, Clinton's one-time rival for the Democratic nomination, has just posted a series of tweets about the need to "reach out" to Trump supporters.

His comments appear to reference - albeit obliquely - Clinton's gaffe back in September, when she called half of Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables".

"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it."

Trump supporters have since - in the modern parlance - "owned" the slur, printing all sorts of merchandise branded with the word deplorable.

David Attenborough, the revered BBC naturalist of Planet Earth fame, has expressed his frustration with the US 2016 presidential election.

Promoting his newest series, Planet Earth II, earlier this week, he told an interviewer:

“Well, we lived through that with earlier presidents – they’ve been equally guilty… But what alternative do we have? Do we have any control or influence over the American elections? Of course we don’t,” he said. 

Then in a hushed voice he added: "We could shoot him, it's not a bad idea", before chuckling.  

Deadspin has cleverly intercut Trump's comments in Tampa earlier today, about Obama taking on a heckler, with footage of the actual incident.

It goes to show just how fast and loose Trump plays with the truth sometimes. The Republican accused Obama of screaming at and disrespecting the heckler, when in reality the president did anything but.

See for yourself.

Lots of states and counties closed early voting locations on Friday, but others are still open to voting.

The BBC's Anthony Zurcher has been talking to voters in Cleveland as they cast their ballots, including one woman who is serving as a cheerleader for democracy.

Polling day may not be until Tuesday but more than 33 million Americans have already cast their ballot across the country in early voting. 

Democrats appear to have taken a significant lead in the key state of Nevada, with reports that voter turnout among Hispanics and African Americans was strong, based on estimates. 

In Clark County, home to about two-thirds of Nevada's active registered voters, Friday saw a single day record of 57,174 early ballots.

Democrats are now projected to lead in the county by more than 72,000 votes there, 14 points ahead of Republicans.

Obviously that could all change on election day depending on how many Republicans turn up to vote.

In 2012 Barack Obama won Nevada with a nearly 7-percentage point lead, and reports suggest Clinton could be on to match or exceed that next week.

Democrats are currently reported to have a statewide lead of 46,000 votes - 6 percentage points - over Republicans.

Our poll tracker, which takes a median value from the five most recent national polls, suggests Clinton's lead over Trump has narrowed to just one percentage point. 

See more here.

Former UK justice secretary, Brexit campaigner, and journalist Michael Gove was spotted moments ago at Clinton's Florida rally.

Gove is now back to journalism, covering the election for the Times of London.

He attended a Trump rally yesterday in North Carolina, writing:

"Donald J Trump does everything big. Except humility. He thinks he should be president because he has “the best words” and the “best temperament”, and that under his leadership America is going to have “some big, big beautiful weeks” and “some great years, truly great years”. But in what may be an historic first, the Donald tried to play down his own importance on Thursday night."

Another popular Brexiteer, Nigel Farage, has become a familiar face for American audiences after campaigning for Donald Trump.  

Read the full Gove article here, external (paywall).

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Clinton spoke briefly in Pembroke Pines, Florida, where it is currently pouring rain.

She was introduced by Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen that was killed in 2012 by a neighbourhood watchman who was not found guilty of any crime.

As sheets of rain crashed down on her teleprompter, Clinton told the crowd they were a "hearty bunch standing out here in the rain".

She also mentioned the Jay Z concert last night, saying her favourite part "was Beyonce's backing dancers in pant suits".

Three days out from the vote, Clinton sounded as if she was losing her voice. That was her only campaign rally today, compared with four for Trump.

She heads next to Philadelphia to attend a fundraiser concert hosted by pop singer Katy Perry.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is holding a rally in Mukwonago, Wisconsin with Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence.

"Join me in thanking this man for running with Donald Trump," Ryan bellowed.

"Join me in welcoming the next vice president of the United States!" he shouted as Pence took the stage in front of a large green bus.

Pence called Ryan, the highest ranking Republican official, "his friend".

Congressman Ryan and Trump have often been at odds during this campaign, with Ryan recently saying he would no longer defend his party's nominee.

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Social media users are tweeting their reactions to the AP report that Trump's third wife, Melania, worked in the US as a model before she had been given the green light by immigration officials.

Trump has bashed immigrants of nearly every stripe during his campaign and called for all undocumented workers to be deported.

Melania herself all but stopped tweeting back in September when the allegation first surfaced.

This is one of her last Tweets, with a letter from her lawyers claiming her legal citizenship.

Remember this interview from 2008? Trump heaps praise on the Clinton family in an interview with the NY1 network.

"Bill Clinton was a great president, Hillary Clinton is a great woman and a good woman," he said.

Hillary was also, according to 2008 Trump, a "wonderful woman", "very smart woman", "very tough woman" and a "very nice person".

What happened?

In Donald Trump's world, size matters. He boasted during a Republican debate in March that he had a large penis, external - a first for a US presidential campaign, we think.

And he has frequently trumpeted the size of his support. “No matter where we go, we have these massive crowds,” he said in Ohio last week. 

But Trump has been regularly accused of exaggerating, sometimes claiming audiences far in excess of the known capacity of the venue.

According to NBC correspondent Peter Alexander, who was at the rally, Trump told his audience at the Giant Center in Pennsylvania last night that they were 27,000 in number.

But the maximum capacity of the Giant Center for a concert is 12,500.... 

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After holding her first campaign appearance since the party convention, Melania Trump will be introducing her husband at his next rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, the campaign has just announced.

The announcement comes as the AP is reporting that Melania had worked illegally as a model in the US before receiving her immigration permits.

The BBC's Anthony Zurcher was at the concert hosted for Clinton last night by Jay Z and Beyonce.

Here are a few of his posts from the star-studded concert.

Comedian Bill Maher has finally landed an interview with President Obama after years of lobbying.

After giving a $1 million contribution to a super PAC supporting Obama in 2012, Maher launched a petition calling for the president to appear on his HBO programme. 

The White House responded to the petition, external, which drew over 320,000 votes, by sitting down for a nearly 40 minute interview in which Maher grills Obama on cannabis, atheism, and media bias.

"I think the question I have when it comes to the media is how do we create a space where truth gets eyeballs and is entertaining", Obama said.

“If I watched Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me either,” he added.

The Supreme Court has allowed Arizona to enforce a law that bans third-party ballot collection.

Democrats say the law penalises minority votes and they were ready to help voters deliver their ballots to the polls.  

Arizona is a traditionally Republican state that Democrats have targeted.

Will cowboys and Latinos in Arizona back Trump?