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Trump, Clinton Campaigns Continue Push for Florida Voters With Election Day Less Than Week Away

With Election Day now less than one week away, the major party candidates for President and their surrogates continue spending time in Florida – a state that again is proving to be the most important of the 2016 campaign.

Republican nominee Donald Trump spent Wednesday afternoon in Downtown Miami, holding a rally for supporters at Bayfront Park. It’s the first of four stops across Florida over the next two days for the business mogul.

"The system is rigged, remember that the system is rigged right now," Trump told the crowd. "We're gonna change it."

Hundreds of people braved the sun to attend the rally, where they heard familiar themes from the GOP nominee, including building a wall, promising to create thousands of jobs and vowing to scrap Obamacare. He also swiped several times at Hillary Clinton.

"It's been reported that there are FBI inquiries probing virtually all of Hillary Clinton's inner circle and many of the things she has done over the years, it's about time," Trump said.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke before Trump. So did Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus.

Meanwhile, Clinton made a surprise visit at an early voting location in Lauderhill Wednesday morning before traveling west – but her campaign will continue with an event Wednesday on the Broward College campus in Pembroke Pines.

"The people just love the fact that she set ground here," Clinton supporter Larry Striggles said. "We're so behind Hillary."

"We're not even worried too much about the polls, we're gonna come out in force," Clinton supporter Hardy Pierre said. "It's almost like the Obama feeling in 2008."

The party’s two biggest names will also be stumping for the former Secretary of State. Vice President Joe Biden will speak at a rally for Clinton in Palm Beach Gardens on Wednesday, while President Barack Obama will arrive in Miami in the evening in advance of an event on the campus of FIU Thursday.

As has been the case with many of the Presidential elections over the past two decades, Florida is being viewed as the state that will end up deciding who the 45th commander-in-chief will be. Each candidate has a slight lead in different national polls, while a recent TargetSmart poll says 28 percent of registered Republicans who have voted in Florida early casted their ballot for Clinton.

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