A defiant Donald Trump has blamed his worsening campaign struggles on "phony polls" from the "disgusting" media, as he fights to energise his most loyal supporters with his prospects of winning the presidency shrinking.
With 14 days to go until election day, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly as well as privately that crucial Pennsylvania may be slipping away.
That would leave a razor-thin pathway to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House on November 8.
Despite continued difficulties with women and minorities, Mr Trump is refusing to soften his message in the campaign's final days to broaden his appeal, and offered an optimistic front in the middle of a three-day tour through Florida as thousands began voting in person.
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"I believe we're actually winning," he said during a round-table discussion with farmers gathered next to a local pumpkin patch.
A day after suggesting the First Amendment to the Constitution may give the press too much freedom, he insisted that the media are promoting biased polls to discourage his supporters from voting.
"The media isn't just against me. They're against all of you," he told cheering supporters later in St Augustine.
"They're against what we represent."
With Mr Trump on the defensive, Democrat Hillary Clinton worked to slam the door on his candidacy in swing state New Hampshire while eyeing a possible Democratic majority in the Senate.
The former secretary of state campaigned alongside New Hampshire governor Maggie Hassan, who is running for the Senate, and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, who was merciless as she seized on Mr Trump's history of predatory sexual language and several allegations of misconduct.
"He thinks that because he has a mouth full of Tic Tacs, he can force himself on any woman within groping distance," Ms Warren claimed.
"I've got news for you Donald: Women have had it with guys like you."
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