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The problem for Hillary Clinton is critical in Florida, the biggest battleground prize, where blacks have accounted for 11.58 percent of all early voters this year. (Associated Press)
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A woman enters the Alfred A. Arraj Courthouse past signs placed by those protesting against the ban to take selfie photos by voters showing a completed ballot, in Denver, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. Colorado is one of the states where such a ban is being challenged in court. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine will address Arizona voters in Spanish on Thursday, as the GOP works to court Hispanic voters. (Associated Press)
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Guatemalan drug trafficking suspect Marlon Monroy Meono, nicknamed "The Ghost," is escorted by police to a waiting plane at the Air Force base in Guatemala City, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. Guatemala’s prison agency says authorities extradited Monroy and his wife, wanted on drug trafficking charges in the United States. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
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Lil Wayne dismissed the Black Lives Matter movement in a rare interview Tuesday night, saying America has made him the "rich motherf—r" he is now. (ABC Nightline)
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FILE -In this Saturday, July 9, 2016 file photo, A protester yells at police in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters after police arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La. After a turbulent summer marred by bloodshed, racial tensions and catastrophic flooding, Louisiana's capital will elect a new mayor to lead a city emerging from some of its darkest days. (AP Photo/Max Becherer, File)
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FILE- In this Aug. 5, 2010, file photo, a pharmacy tech poses for a picture with prescription medication at a pharmacy in Edmond, Okla. November is typically open enrollment time for millions who get health insurance, disability insurance and other benefits from an employer. If you’re one of them, among your important choices is whether you want a flexible spending account and how much money to deposit. You can spend FSA money only on “qualified medical expenses,” which are determined by the IRS. The money comes out of your paycheck pretax, in regular increments.(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Bill Cosby, right, arrives for a hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Norristown, Pa. Cosby is returning to court to hear if a judge will allow his damaging decade-old testimony from an accuser's lawsuit to be used at his June criminal trial. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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DISPLACED: Refugees from the Islamic State campaign to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria are leaving the area as the Iraqi army continues its offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, back from the terror army. A U.S. commander said the campaign for the city will be an "engineering war." (Associated Press Photographs)
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"This is a bipartisan issue that unites people across geographic, political and social lines and reminds us there is something bigger than ourselves," said Rep. J. Randy Forbes, Virginia Republican, who urges people to display the motto in their homes and on their cars. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a United Nations armored vehicle passes displaced people walking towards the U.N. camp in Malakal, South Sudan. An independent investigation released Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, of attacks in July on a U.N. compound in South Sudan housing 27,000 displaced people, and a private compound not far away housing U.N. staff and aid workers, is sharply critical of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's leadership and the response by troops from China, Ethiopia, Nepal and India. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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In this photo taken Oct. 18, 2016, workers with the Living United for Change in Arizona organization, known as LUCHA, canvas a south Phoenix neighborhood knocking on the doors of registered voters to advocate for the passage of Proposition 206, which would increase the state's minimum wage. The organization was part of a non-partisan voter registration drive this year in Latino neighborhoods that resulted in 150,000 new registered voters. Democrats hope Latinos in Arizona will help turn the traditionally conservative state blue for the first time in 20 years. (AP Photo/Astrid Galvan)
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FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2014, file photo, cars wait to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, through the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in 2015, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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Anti-abortion voters say that Donald Trump's divorces and often-uncouth statements have made it somewhat harder to get behind him. (Associated Press)
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Protests have erupted in the past year as Germany takes in migrants. Resistance is particularly fierce in the poorer eastern parts of the country. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the FBI Hillary investigation by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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FILE - This file photo provided by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office shows Milwaukee police officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown. Heaggan-Brown, who fatally shot a black man sparking a weekend of violence in Milwaukee and who was later charged with sexually assault in an unrelated case, was terminated from his job as a result of the department's internal investigation into the sexual assault charges Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said in a statement Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. (Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2016, file photo, Nevada Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto meets with people at a campaign event at a restaurant in Las Vegas. Masto could be the first Latina while women could have a record number in the Senate, though nowhere near the number of the population at large. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Bill Kuenzel, sentenced to death for the shooting death of store clerk Linda Jean Offord in 1987. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday Oct. 31, 2016 declined to hear an appeal by the inmate, who claims he is innocent. (AP Photo/Alabama Department of Corrections)
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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2016 file photo, a Pakistani woman Safia Bano displays the picture of her husband Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner, in Burewala, in central Pakistan. A Pakistani lawyer said, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, that the Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Ali, a mentally ill prisoner whose hanging was to take place later this week. (AP Photo/Asghar Ali, File)
