ballot after 46 million
Americans vote early.
After a gruelling 18 months on the
campaign trail, Hillary Clinton cast her
vote on Tuesday morning hoping to
make history as the country’s first
female president, as millions of
Americans headed to polling stations
across the country.
Clinton’s ballot
follows those of the
more than 46
million people who
voted early this
year, but it remains
too early to say
whether the scales
are tipped toward
the former secretary of state or her
Republican rival, Donald Trump .
Clinton was greeted by flashing cameras
at a school in Chappaqua, New York,
where she voted with her husband,
former president Bill Clinton. After
filling out the ballot, Clinton was
overwhelmed by hugs and handshakes
outside the polling station.
“It is the most humbling feeling, because
I know how much responsibility goes
with this,” Clinton told reporters outside
Douglas G Grafflin elementary school,
after casting her vote.
At Trump’s designated polling site, PS
59 elementary school in Manhattan,
more than 80 voters were lined up in
the dark before voting even opened at
6am.
Soon after, two topless women protested
inside the voting site, shouting: “Out of
our polls, Trump, out of our polls,
Trump!”
The women, who were wearing jeans
but no shirts, were escorted out of the
station quickly.
But Trump eschewed early morning
voting in favor of a phone interview
with Fox’s Fox and Friends, where he
raised questions about the “phony” polls
which put Clinton in the lead just before
election day. “I do think a lot of the
polls are purposefully wrong,” Trump
said.
Some residents of Manhattan’s Upper
West Side cast their vote in Trump
Place, a residential development built
by the Republican nominee in the
1990s. Despite this, the polling station’s
name seemed to have no bearing on
their voting intentions. “He’s a
misogynist, and he’s phobic of everyone
who isn’t like him,” said Juliet Herman,
a 52-year-old strategist.
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