Democrat's Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have intensified campaigns in battleground states as recent polls show the race to the White House is tightening.
Clinton's national polls has shrunk in recent days following series of damaging development especially the announcement that the F.B.I. had reopened the investigation into her unapproved use of private email while she was Secretary of State.
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Democrats expressed confidence that she would weather the political turbulence and emerge victorious even as more than 30 million votes have been cast already across 38 states four days to go.
Democrats expressed confidence that she would weather the political turbulence and emerge victorious even as more than 30 million votes have been cast already across 38 states four days to go.
"A lot of people have already made up their minds and have already voted (in the early voting system). The renewed email scandal may not have any significant effect on Hillary Clinton chances," said Aaron Gluck, a 20-year-old Political Science student of the University of Miami.
He said Trump had said a lot of offensive things against many people especially the minority group.
Unlike in many other countries where voting takes place on only Election Day, registered voters in the US are allowed to cast their ballots before the Election Day in a system called early voting.
In US election system, early voting is casting a ballot in person prior to the Election Day at a location designated by the supervisor of elections and depositing the voted ballot in the tabulation system.
This begins 10 days and ends on the third day before Election Day.
Early voting data from several battleground states revealed that Democrats are building an early voting lead in North Carolina and Nevada but Republicans maintain an edge in Florida and Ohio, CNN analysis shows.
In Arizona, early voting also favours Republicans while Democrats lead in Colorado and Iowa.
So far, according to CNN statistics, about 7.4 million registered Democrats and about 6.4 million Republicans have hit the polls early even as both candidates encourage their supporters to vote before November 8.
An associate professor at the University of Miami's Political Science department, Joseph Uscincki, said though recent polls show the race is getting tightening, these do not mean that Donald Trump would win the election.
"We expect a tight election where the two parties position themselves to get enough votes and supports as possible," he said.
According to him, Trump has done so much damage to its party and he is running a terrible campaign.
"I don't see how he actually turns people out to vote. He does not have the campaign to get people out to do that," he added.
Early voting has so far increased. But this, Uscincki said, is expected to favour Hillary.
"Early voters tend to be Democrats. They have students, minorities and working class people who need more voting options to cast their ballots than staying long queue on Election Day.
"Hillary has a hundreds of offices in Florida and thousands of volunteers knocking doors but Trump barely has a campaign. So he is relying on getting free air time from the mainstream media and he hopes that will work in his favour.
"Getting people to support you on TV is different from getting people to get out and stand on the line to vote. People may support you and stay in their houses on Election Day," he said.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has been campaigning vigorously for the Democrat's candidate, Hillary Clinton. Though this has received bashing from the Republican candidate, Trump said that Obama should rather channel his energy to the business of governance.
“Incumbency is crucial in winning election in many parts of the world but this may not be the case in American election,” Uscincki noted.
"There is certainly incumbents advantage in the congress but not necessarily in the presidency," Uscincki said, adding that winning election in the US depend on the state of the economy under the governing party.
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