Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump won the race to the White House, a victory that will shake the Washington establishment to its very core, writes Newsweek's Matt Cooper.

Jimmy Vaccaro, the 71-year-old doyen of Las Vegas oddsmakers, says that in the last week only five to 10 people have come to his counter at the South Point Casino's Sports Book lounge to ask him about the presidential election. "Used to be five to 10 people every two hours," Vaccaro says. "The interest is waning. We're worn out here."

The US presidential campaign neared its end last night in the same angry tone it began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Democrat Hillary Clinton a "phony" and Clinton accusing him of splitting the country.

Recent polls in Nevada, taken after James Comey, the director of the FBI suggested on October 28th that he might have new evidence relating to the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, appear to show that Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton are neck-and-neck to win the state’s six electoral votes. But polling in the Silver State is notoriously tricky. In the 2008 Republican primary, the polling average suggested that Mitt Romney held just a five-point lead over John McCain. Mr Romney ended up trouncing Mr McCain by 38 points. In the general election that year, a batch of polls averaged by Real Clear Politics, a political news website, suggested Barack Obama would win Nevada by 6.5 points. He triumphed by 12.5 points. Most polls predicted that Nevada senator Harry Reid would lose when he ran for reelection in 2010. He prevailed by six points.

It was on Nov. 8, 1864, that Nevadans cast their ballots for the first time in a U.S. presidential election, exactly 152 years ago today. Republican President Abraham Lincoln was fighting for re-election against Democrat George McClellan, a former Union general running on a peace platform, when the Silver State joined the Union barely a week earlier, on the date now known as Nevada Day, October 31.

Once the last campaign speeches are made, and the final votes are counted, what then? The United States will have a new president-elect but, after a corrosive campaign, will the American people easily accept the outcome?

With early voting finished and tallied, registered Democrats in Nevada have taken a 46,000-vote lead over Republican voters heading into Election Day.

The US Supreme Court on Saturday reinstated an Arizona law that makes it a felony to collect early ballots, dealing a blow to Democratic get out the vote efforts just days before the presidential election.