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An elderly man who fell ill while voting for the US Presidential election insisted on casting his vote as medics rushed to help him.

A voter - who used the Twitter name Hedi Lou Who - said she was waiting to vote for the historic election when the man fell ill with chest pain and breathing difficulties.

But instead of waiting calmly for help, the man still insisted on casting his ballot.

It comes as record numbers of Americans are voting - highlighting how serious many are taking this election and the decision between Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

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Writing on Twitter, Heidi said: “Older man at polling place having chest pain & trouble breathing, insisted on casting his ballot as the ambulance was called.”

Pictures from the scene - thought to be in Virginia - show ambulances at the scene. The condition of the man is not known.

Despite trailing in the latest polls, Donald Trump remains confident he will be victorious in the election.

The Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project gave Hillary Clinton a 90 percent chance of defeating Trump in a poll released on Monday.

The Democratic nominee was on track to win 303 Electoral College votes out of the 270 needed, to Trump's 235.

Undeterred, Republican Trump maintained that the election result would be as big an upset as the EU referendum in the UK.

He told supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina: “I think it’s going to be Brexit plus plus plus.”

As the billionaire businessman left the stage You Can’t Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones began to play.

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However, Trump's sustained and vicious attack on Latinos could deliver the killer blow to his White House bid as polls close.

He has campaigned to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, and branded Mexicans killers, rapists and drug dealers – vowing to build a wall on the border.

But as the moment of truth approaches, early votes in battleground states with large Latino populations show record turnouts among them.

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It’s payback from America’s largest minority group against the billionaire, who went way beyond his disgraceful Mexican “rapists” claim, broadening his insults to all Latinos.

Announcing his candidacy in June, he said: “You have people coming in and I’m not just saying Mexicans, I’m talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists.”

He also insisted the Mexican government was sending undocumented criminals over the border.

As a result, many polls show Latino voters supporting Clinton by unprecedented margins.

They could sink Trump in a number of states essential to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House, say analysts.

In Nevada, the Latino turnout propelled Democrats in Clark County, the state’s largest population, and Las Vegas, to a record-breaking close on Friday.

Early ballots gave Clinton a 72,000-strong lead.

Enough, says Nevada political expert Jon Ralston, to win the state for the Democrats.

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Four years earlier, Obama won in Clark County by seven points, with a 71,000 early voting lead.

Florida, home to millions of Latinos, had a 49.4% turnout among early voters with ­Democrats leading Republicans by 88,000.

According to CNN , Clinton pulled ahead in battlegrounds of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania with a three-point and five-point edge.

She was tied with Trump in the key state of North Carolina.

But across the States Clinton holds a three-point average lead while an NBC poll put her seven points ahead.

Of the 10 legitimate polls Trump leads in only one, which gives him a two-point advantage.

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Clinton has been boosted by Sunday’s FBI finding of no criminality in a new batch of emails.

Four months ago she was found careless but not criminal in handling classified material on a private email server.

The renewal of the probe a fortnight ago led to a huge drop in her ratings.

She was neck-and-neck with Trump, after 650,0000 emails were found on the laptop of her aide, Huma Abedin.

This was despite accusations of sexual misconduct against him from 12 alleged victims.

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The announcement Clinton was in the clear infuriated Trump.

He said she was being protected by “a rigged system”, claiming: “You can’t review 650,000 emails in eight days.”

But the latest boost is enough to give Clinton a historic win as the first female president, many Republicans fear.

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Longtime party political ­strategist John Weaver said: “I believe she’s going to win in an electoral landslide and be the most unpopular president in electoral history.”

Yesterday the two candidates cut differing paths on the trail.

Clinton appeared in Michigan, where earlier this year she lost the Democratic primary to Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

President Obama also headed to the Great Lakes State to boost support for her.

Earlier, he taunted Trump over staff taking him off Twitter to save embarrassment. He said: “If somebody can’t handle a Twitter account, how can they handle the nuclear codes?”

Last night Obama and his First Lady joined Clinton and husband Bill at a rally in Philadelphia, featuring Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi.