US election live: Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton in battle for White House

election live: Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton in battle for White House

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Projections from ABC election analyst Antony Green put Donald Trump on 259 Electoral College votes and he says "at this stage, all the numbers are leading towards a Trump victory" in the US election.

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• Trump has won the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio and North Carolina

  This is happening over at the New York Times:

  
  

  Remember: the winning candidate needs 270 electoral votes

  Here's what that means

  What does Antony Green say?

  You can find that here, but remember his prediction is different - he's prepared to call safe seats that US outlets aren't able to call until polls close right across the country.

• 1 minute ago

  All eyes on Wisconsin

  Antony Green says the result of the election may come down to what happens in Wisconsin. He's predicting 259 electoral college votes for Donald Trump already (remember, Green can call seats which US networks can't yet, so some of his numbers are different to theirs).

  If they secured Wisconsin (which is looking likely), that's 10 more EC votes, bringing them to 269. At this point it would be a tie, and Donald Trump would only need one more vote. But even if he doesn't win that one extra vote, it then gets thrown to the floor of the House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans. So they'll vote for President Trump.

  "If Wisconsin is called for the Republicans, Donald Trump will be president."

  
  

  Lucy Sweeney 1 minute ago

Poll: Trump leads crashes Asian markets

Asian equities tumbled Wednesday, extending a global sell-off, and the Mexican peso fell after a poll showed Donald Trump overtaking market favourite Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.

With Clinton until last week comfortably ahead, traders were upbeat about her chances of winning on November 8 but news Friday that the FBI were again looking at her emails has raised the prospect of Trump becoming president.

Trump is viewed as a wildcard, in part because of his harsh criticism of Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen and international trade pacts.

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How did WikiLeaks go from darling of the liberal left and scourge of American imperialism to apparent tool of Donald Trump’s divisive, incendiary presidential campaign?

A series of hacked emails appear designed to aid Donald Trump fight back against Hillary Clinton, while raising questions about Russian involvement

Thursday brought another WikiLeaks dump of nearly 2,000 emails hacked from the Hillary Clinton campaign, allegedly by Russians. As usual, they were inside-the-beltway gossip rather than game-changing: the campaign tried to push back the Illinois primary, believing it would make life harder for moderate Republicans.

That has not stopped Trump trying to make hay from the leaked emails and deflect attention from allegations of sexual harassment against him. “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “So dishonest! Rigged system!”