--- title: Hillary Clinton Campaign Touts Early Voting Results description: As polls tighten in battleground states, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is touting early voting numbers. canonical: https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-04T21:20:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:48.505Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton Campaign Touts Early Voting Results og:description: Particularly in Florida and North Carolina. og:url: https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt345c098f60890d67/6988acd4ab6d77ea0b6abd0c/clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during a campaign event in Tempe, Arizona, on Nov. 2, 2016. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton Campaign Touts Early Voting Results twitter:description: Particularly in Florida and North Carolina. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt345c098f60890d67/6988acd4ab6d77ea0b6abd0c/clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Campaign Touts Early Voting Results > Sponsored content. 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As polls tighten in battleground states, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is touting early voting numbers._ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Nov 4, 2016 9:20 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Nov 4, 2016 9:20 PM UTC As polls tighten in battleground states and Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump is less secure, Clinton’s campaign is touting early voting numbers that show her with an advantage. In Florida and North Carolina, two must-win states for Donald Trump if he is to have a path to the White House, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook pointed to data that show Democrats are outpacing Republicans. “Our campaign has organized to leverage this early voting period to build a firewall in states,” said Mook, “and build out a lead that Donald Trump is incapable of overcoming.” Early voting, while an important indicator of a campaign’s ground game, is not always a reliable indicator of final vote totals. And it is easy for campaigns to point to particular data points to bolster the case that they are winning; in many cases they have their own internal data. National polling averages show Clinton with a national lead over Trump shrinking to between just 1 and 2 percentage points, compared with about 7 points in mid-October. Her lead in swing states has diminished as well. Republicans disputed that Democrats are ahead in Florida. In the Sunshine State, a total of 1.11 million Republicans and 1.18 million Democrats have voted early, while 985,000 Republicans and 911,000 Democrats have voted by mail, according to the [state’s division of elections data](https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStats). That gives Republicans a slight edge over Democrats in ballots cast, though significantly more Democrats have requested to vote by mail who haven’t yet sent in their ballots. “Robby is cherry-picking data that is beneficial to them. He chose to only talk about the early vote but not absentee ballots,” said Republican National Committee spokesperson Lindsay Walters referring to Florida. “Republicans are leading in total ballots cast.” In North Carolina, Democrats are ahead in vote totals, having cast 42% of absentee ballots compared with 32% for Republicans, according to the state’s data. Clinton campaign director of states Marlon Marshall said that early vote totals were up 16% overall in the state. But Trump is still slightly outperforming Republican nominee Mitt Romney in North Carolina compared with Democrats at this point, and Romney won the state over President Obama. And African-American turnout, a key Democratic contingency, is down overall in the state compared with four years ago, though it has increased in recent days. In Nevada, Democrats have a lead in early voting as well, Marshall said. “Trump will need to win election day by 10 points at this point to overtake and win the state of Nevada,” he said. Polls have shown a shakeup in the presidential race since James Comey’s announcement that the FBI was investigating additional emails that may be related to Clinton’s email server. Comey said in July that “no reasonable prosecutor” would indict Clinton for using a personal server, and the investigation as considered closed. The former Secretary of State is relying on a strong field team to turn out voters. Trump has done little of the organizing work to turn out voters and is relying primarily on the RNC. Early voting is a chance for organized campaigns to target low-propensity voters and push them to cast in the days and weeks before Nov. 8\. The goal for both Republicans and Democrats is to target voters who might not otherwise show up on Election Day, out of inconvenience or disinterest. Trump has spoken of a “silent majority” of voters who do haven’t tolled pollsters their true preferences and will turn out on election day. Clinton campaign aides said those voters don’t exist. “So far, we have not seen a surge from the Trump camp and his supporters,” said Mook. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Campaign Touts Early Voting Results","datePublished":"2016-11-04T21:20:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:42:48.505Z","description":"As polls tighten in battleground states, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is touting early voting numbers.","url":"https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Voting"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt345c098f60890d67/6988acd4ab6d77ea0b6abd0c/clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt345c098f60890d67/6988acd4ab6d77ea0b6abd0c/clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during a campaign event in Tempe, Arizona, on Nov. 2, 2016.","caption":"Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during a campaign event in Tempe, Arizona, on Nov. 2, 2016.","creditText":"Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/","name":"Hillary Clinton Campaign Touts Early Voting Results"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"As polls tighten in battleground states, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is touting early voting numbers.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4559129/hillary-clinton-early-voting-results/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```