Do they know something they're not admitting to? Clinton campaign CANCELS New York election night fireworks display

12:40 EST, 7 November 2016 | Updated: 14:00 EST, 7 November 2016


Hillary Clinton's campaign has called off its planned election night firework display, it emerged Monday


  • Hillary Clinton's campaign has called off its planned election night firework display over New York's Hudson River
  • Staffers called the Coast Guard last week to say the event was off
  • New York Fire Department sent out a memo about victory party on Friday
  • It was reported that the two-minute fireworks display could start as early as 9.30 pm local time, only 30 minutes after the polls close in New York
  • Clinton is still going ahead with her Manhattan bash
  • Donald Trump is also planning to be in New York City on Election Night
  • There is just one day to go before Election Day


Hillary Clinton's campaign has called off its planned election night firework display, it emerged Monday, the day before America goes to the polls.

Staffers were going to put on a two-minute show over the Hudson River after the results come in on Tuesday, but the proposal has been canned, TMZ reported on Monday.

The campaign called the Coast Guard last week to tell them the event was off, three days after the New York Post reported it was planning the bash - although the cancellation was secret until Monday.

The plans emerged three days after FBI director James Comey told Congress his agency was investigating a trove of emails found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

The cancellation was made Thursday - before Comey wrote again to Congress to say that the FBI had not found anything to justify changing its verdict of no charges to the Democrat about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.


The campaign called the Coast Guard last week to tell them the event was off, three days after
the New York Post reported it was planning the bash. Fireworks displays are common in New York,
such as this celebration of Independence Day, but this would have been the first time one would
be used for an election victory party

Still, Clinton's campaign suffered collateral damage in the nine days which elapsed between the letters.

The Democrat had been accused of tempting fate when her campaign notified
the city of its plans for the pyrotechnic display launched from a barge in the Hudson, just off Manhattan’s Javits Center.

It was reported that the two-minute fireworks display could start as early as 9.30pm local time, only 30 minutes after the polls close in New York and hours before voters cast their final ballots on the West Coast.

Clinton and her running mate, Virginia senator Tim Kaine, are both planning to base themselves in New York on November 8.
It's not the first time a presidential candidate has jumped the gun on the results.

In 1948 President Harry Truman was famously photographed holding a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune which had gone to press with the headline 'Dewey Defeats Truman'.

The Republican Thomas Dewey had been the hot favorite to beat Truman but the incumbent won one of the closest elections ever.


The Democrat, pictured Monday, had been accused of tempting fate when her campaign notified
the city of its plans for the pyrotechnic display launched from a barge in the Hudson, just off
Manhattan’s Javits Center

More recently, in 2000, Vice President Al Gore thought he had the election in the bag until the infamous hanging chads in Florida gave it to George W .Bush.

The Post said an FDNY memo - ironically sent out on Friday, the same day FBI director James Comey made his intervention - ordered its Marine 1 company to provide protection for the fireworks show.


The memo said Mrs Clinton’s campaign had hired New Jersey-based Garden State Fireworks to put on the show.


One New York detective told the Post: 'It’s a little presumptuous of her to plan on winning. I guess she put in for this before Friday.'


Both Clinton and Trump are planning to be in New York on election night.


Clinton is a former New York Senator and her daughter Chelsea lives in the city with her husband, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.


Queens-born Trump also has roots in the city and made much of his fortune and fame in Manhattan and in nearby Atlantic City.


But New York state has voted Democrat in every presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide victory.


There are just hours to go before Election Day on November 8

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