Get out and vote, US President Barack Obama tells Democrats

US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the presidential elections between Hillary Clinton of his Democratic party and her Republican rival Donald Trump would be close and urged his supporters to go out and vote in large numbers.

“I am here to tell you that this will be a close race and you cannot take it for granted,” Mr Obama told thousands of his supporters at an election rally in Jacksonville.

He addressed two rallies in Florida Thursday and is scheduled to come back over the weekend.

“Because all the progress we’ve made these last eight years goes out the window if we don’t win this election. So we’ve got to work our hearts out in the next five days. We have to work like our future depends on it, because, you know what, our future depends on it,” he said.

Making a strong pitch for his former secretary of state, Mr Obama said there’s only one candidate in this race who has devoted her entire life to that better America, and that is the next president of the US, Hillary Clinton. He said Mr Trump is not fit to enter White House.