We’re behind but race not over – Trump team

US: Clinton campaign wary of declaring premature victory

Donald Trump’s campaign has bluntly acknowledged he is trailing Hillary Clinton as the presidential race hurtles towards a close – but aides insisted he has a viable path to win.

With barely two weeks left and early voting under way in most of the US, Mr Trump’s team said “the race is not over” and pledged to keep campaigning hard, even in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania which polls show as in Mrs Clinton’s control.

Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway laid out a path to the requisite 270 electoral votes that goes through make- or- break states Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Ohio.

“We’re not giving up. We know we can win this”

“We are behind. She has someadvantages,” she said. Yet she argued that Clinton’s advantages – such as a slew of bold- name Democrats campaigning for her – belied her lack of true support.

She added: “We’re not giving up. We know we can win this.”

Yet even as Mrs Clinton appeared to be strengthening her lead, her campaign was careful not to declare premature victory.

“We don’t want to get aheadof our skis here,” said campaign manager Robby Mook. He said the “battleground states” where both candidates are campaigning hardest “are called that for a reason”.

As part of his closing message, Mr Trump was laying out an ambitious agenda for his first 100days as president. Yet he undermined his own attempt at a high-minded tone when he announced that he planned to sue the women who have accused him of groping and other unwanted sexual behaviour.

“All of these liars will be sued once the election is over,” he said during an event near the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg. He added: “I look so forward to doing that.”