Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump beg voters to turn out — because at this stage it’s anybody’s game

ANALYSIS: It’s just two days out to election day, but at this stage it’s anybody’s game as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton plead with voters to turn up to the polls.

DONALD Trump has vowed nothing will stop him after a false gun scare prompted his Secret Service detail to bundle him offstage at a heated rally in Nevada just days before the vote.

Mr Trump turned the security scare — which was a false alarm involving no weapon — into a show of strength, appearing afterwards unruffled and declaring “nobody said it was going to be easy — but we will never be stopped”.

The startling events set the scene for his final two day barnstorming of democratic strongholds that Hillary Clinton must hold to claim the White House.

Secret Service agents rush Donald Trump off the stage at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada. Picture: AP/John Locher

“We’re going into what they used to call Democrat strongholds where we’re now either tied or ahead,” Mr Trump declared confidently ahead of the final 48 hours before polling day.

The security scare at the Trump rally was borne of fierce tensions among fervent supporters anxious about the knife-edge race to the White House, which two days out is anybody’s game.

It was a man holding a “Republicans Against Trump” sign who sparked the commotion when Trump supporters attacked him and shouted that he had a gun, prompting instant chaos.

Attendees at major rallies face strict security checkpoints including metal detectors, but Secret Service details take all threats seriously, with two agents shielding Mr Trump as they rushed him off stage.

As the chaos unfolded on the floor of the rally, police piled on to the man with the sign who was identified by media at the scene as republican voter Austyn Crites who simply didn’t support the Trump candidacy.

Austyn Crites is escorted out by law enforcement officers moments after Donald Trump was rushed offstage by Secret Service agents. Picture: AP/ Evan Vucci

Mr Crites told NBC at the scene that he was tackled by Trump supporters for holding the sign and believed the police saved him.

“When I pulled out the sign, people around me were trying to grab the sign,” NBC affiliate 16KMTR reported.

“All of a sudden … I get tackled by all these people who were just like kicking me and grabbing me in the crotch and just, just beating the crap out of me.

“And somebody yells something about a gun and so that’s when things really got out of hand.”

NBC reported Mr Crites believed he would have been killed if law enforcement hadn’t stepped in.

In the final days of the race, both candidates will hit the hustings across key states to beg voters to turn up to the polls.

Ms Clinton still has a narrow advantage — she is now leading by as much as five points in national polling and has more viable paths to victory in the electoral college than Mr Trump does.

However a tightening of polls across key states the Democrats must hold on to undermine any certainty for Ms Clinton with Mr Trump still firmly in contention for victory.

Part of the Clinton tactic in the final days is to sandbag the state of Michigan — a democratic stronghold republicans haven’t won since 1992.

In a clear sign of worry, both Ms Clinton and President Barack Obama will campaign in the state on election eve before closing the election with their spouses at an event in Pennsylvania.

Both sides will also heavily target the prized states of Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. For much of the campaign both sides believed Mr Trump would need to win all of these states to have a viable path to the White House.

However, now his team is trying to map territory into other, smaller, Democratic states that would give him the 270 electoral college votes necessary even if he lost one of the big prizes.

“We’re going to Minnesota, we’re going to Colorado where we’re doing phenomenally. We’re doing well in places that they don’t believe,” he told supporters in Florida.

Ms Clinton appeared in Philadelphia last night with pop star Katy Perry. She is trying to rouse the millennial vote that helped carry Mr Obama to the presidency in 2008 and 2012 but risks proving a blind spot for Ms Clinton.