Watch: Donald Trump Rallies Supporters in Atkinson NH

ATKINSON, NH — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is again visiting New Hampshire rallying voters to his campaign in the last hours of the 2016 general election. Trump makes an unprecedented fourth trip the state in the last six weeks buoyed by an avalanche of bad press against the Democratic presidential nominee, her campaign staffers, and others, hosting an event at the Atkinson Country Club in Atkinson, which is scheduled to begin at noon.

National tracking polls – which don’t elect the president but give the politerati a feel for the state of the race – now show a tightening contest between Trump and Clinton, with Libertarian Gary Johnson losing more than half of his previous support in during the course of the last month, according to the RealClearPolitics.com average. That average, however, doesn’t include other national tracking polls, including the Los Angeles Times state of the race poll, which has been sampling 3,000 voters for months and shows a surging Trump, clinging to a 4-point lead nationally.

The presidency, however, is not elected by popular vote but instead, the Electoral College, with votes awarded to each state; voting on Tuesday is a battle to win enough states to pass 270 EC votes and, by all accounts, the race is a toss-up.

Watch the live stream below:

According to the New York Times Who Will Be President interactive graphic, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has 693 different state EC combinations to win the presidency while Trump has 315 ways to win. And in many of Trump’s winning scenarios, he needs New Hampshire’s four Electoral College votes – which is why he is campaigning here today and returning for an election eve rally in Manchester on Nov. 7.

As Trump arrives in the state today, there is also an abundance of good news in the latest polls from New Hampshire during the past week: Four polls show Trump either tied or leading by as much as 5 percent. Clinton’s lead – as high as 15 percent in late July and mid-October, when UNH/WMUR-TV poll released a poll which was criticized for its oversampling of Democrats – has essentially collapsed, according to the data.

Clinton and the Democrats, however, are not giving up on the state – the campaign this morning released a list of 12 surrogate events for today alone, including visits and meet-and-greets with Chelsea Clinton, actress Kristin Davis, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.

Clinton will also host a campaign event in Manchester on Sunday and President Barack Obama will be at UNH in Durham on Monday.

NH Patch election coverage

• Endorsements and More Endorsements: NH Patch Political Roundup
• Cop Unions Endorse Ayotte, Indies Blacked Out: NH Patch Political Roundup
• Gulla: Sununu Has Taken Thousands in Contributions from For-Profit Prison Industry
• Watch: Hillary Clinton Campaigns with Elizabeth Warren in NH
• Rubens: In the 2016 Presidential Race, the Choice is Groping vs. Genocide
• Patton: Does Donald Tump Suffer From Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
• NH Voters Are Powerful, Study Says: NH Patch Political Roundup
• Political Farce 'Candid Candidate' Begins on Oct. 21
• Watch Live Stream: Donald Trump in Portsmouth NH
• Michelle Obama Delivers Emotional Speech in New Hampshire Denouncing Donald Trump's Comments on Women: Video
• Clinton Campaign Wrestled with Tone of NH Speeches: WikiLeaks
• Chevrefils: Lip Service from Presidential Candidates is Not Enough
• Sen. Ayotte: I Will Not Vote for Trump on Nov. 8
• Watch: Donald Trump Town Hall Meeting in Sandown, NH
• Military Should Arrest Obama, NH GOP State Rep Candidate Says in Letter
• Watch: Donald Trump Rallies with Granite Staters in Bedford NH
• NH Pol: I Created the Obama Birther Movement
• Watch: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Talk College Affordability at UNH
• Watch: Video of Donald Trump Rally in Laconia NH
• NH’s Largest Newspaper Endorses Libertarian Presidential Candidate
• Comment About Clinton and Parkinson’s Disease Goes Viral
• Donald Trump in Manchester: 'New Hampshire Is Staying Right Where It Is'
• Republicans Elect First African-American Major Political Nominee in NH History
• Trump Adviser: Clinton Should Be Shot for Treason, Not Assassinated
• Boyd: The Time is Now to Address the Social Security Issue
• Trump in NH: ‘Days of Deadly Ignorance Will End’
• Trump: 'We'll Make America Great Again'
• Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton in Portsmouth
• Clinton Makes It Official
• Project Veritas Vote Fraud Investigator Subpoenaed by NH AG

Credit: Jeffrey Hastings/Frame of Mind Photography FrameofMindPhoto.com.