Rivals chase final votes

Latest poll shows nation with a strong chance to have its first female commander in chief

After nearly two years of bitterness and rancor, the United States will elect its 45th president on Tuesday, making Hillary Clinton the nation's first female commander in chief or choosing billionaire businessman Donald Trump, whose volatile campaign has upended US politics.

The winner will inherit an anxious nation, angry and distrustful of leaders in Washington. They'll preside over an economy that is improving but still leaving many behind, and a military less extended abroad than eight years ago, but grappling with new terror threats.