Monday 7 November 2016

US Election 2016: Obama urges voters to make Clinton US first female president

US President Barack Obama speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on November 7, 2016. NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP

President Barack Obama urged Americans to make history on Tuesday by electing the Democrat Hillary Clinton to succeed him in the White House.

“I ask you to do for Hillary what you did for me,” Obama told a rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the first of three he is holding for Clinton on the eve of the vote.

“You have the chance to reject a coarse, divisive, mean-spirited politics that would take us backwards,” he said. “The chance to elect our first female president.”