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ByKathleenHennessey and Gary Fineout The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Like thousands of other Amer- icans, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton scrambled their plans Thursday in Florida, where Hurricane Matthew threatened to wreak havoc on efforts to comb the state for votes in the campaign's final stretch. The ferocious storm bar- reling toward the coast, the Clinton campaign moved staff and out-of-state vol- unteers working on the east coast of Florida to ho- tels and other housing in- land and was closing all offices in the affected ar- eas until safe to return, the campaign said. Sensi- tive to being seen as trying to capitalize on the storm, the campaign temporarily pulled its ads running on local Weather Channel sta- tions in Florida. The Trump campaign scrapped plans to hold a rally farther up in the coast in North Carolina, and can- celed a Florida event fea- turing Trump's daughter, Ivanka. Trump offered prayers for those in the path. "Hoping the hurricane dissipates, but in any event, please be careful," the Re- publican tweeted. Far away, both candi- dates continued to pre- pare for their second de- bate, a town hall-style fa- ceoff on Sunday. Trump was to holding his own town hall Thursday in Sandown, New Hamp- shire, an event that could serve as a dry run. Clinton was to hold fundraisers in New York. Along the Southeast coast, the Category 4 storm, carrying winds up to 125 mph, was likely to bring dangerous conditions to Georgia, South Carolina and, possibly, North Caro- lina. But its impact on dele- gate-rich Florida was what had the campaigns on high alert. The state is a must- win for Trump and an in- tense battleground for get- out-the-vote operations. Vote-by-mail ballots are being sent to voters across the state this week, leaving the potential for ballots to arrive just as voters tempo- rarily abandon their homes. So far, a record 2.5 million people — nearly one-third of those who voted in 2012 — have made requests for the early ballots. The timing of the storm raised questions about how the campaigns will handle problems from mail-in bal- lots that haven't been re- ceived, as well as whether local officials will seek an extension of the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline. Officials said they were hoping that any disruption to voting this time would be less severe than what occurred with Superstorm Sandy, which struck New Jersey and New York in the week before the 2012 pres- idential election and kept many voters away from polls. At least half of Florida voters typically cast bal- lots early, either by mail or in person, compared with just a fraction in New York and New Jersey. Early in-person voting in Florida doesn't begin until Oct. 24, two weeks before Election Day on Nov. 8. ELECTION 2016 Can't compete with Matthew: Candidates cut Florida campaigns By Mike Schneider and Kelli Kennedy The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Mat- thew steamed toward Flor- ida with potentially cata- strophic winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland. It was the most powerful storm to threaten the U.S. Atlantic coast in more than a decade. "The storm has already killed people. We should expect the same impact in Florida," Gov. Rick Scott said as the skies began darkening from Matthew's outer bands of rain. As it moved north in the evening, Matthew stayed about 100 miles or more off South Florida, sparing the 4.4 million people in the Miami and Fort Lauder- dale areas from the stron- gest winds. "We were lucky this time," Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said. Matthew was expected to blow ashore — or come dangerously close to doing so — early Friday north of West Palm Beach, which has about 1.1 million res- idents, and then slowly push north for the next 12 hours along the Interstate 95 corridor, through Cape Canaveral and Jackson- ville, according to the Mi- ami-based National Hurri- cane Center. Forecasters said it would then probably hug the coast of Georgia and South Car- olina over the weekend be- fore veering out to sea — perhaps even looping back toward Florida in the mid- dle of next week as a tropi- cal storm. Millions of people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were told to evac- uate their homes, and in- terstate highways were turned into one-way routes to speed the exodus. Florida alone accounted for roughly 1.5 million of those people. Many boarded up their homes and businesses and left them to the mercy of the storm. "We're not going to take any chances on this one," said Daniel Myras, who struggled to find enough plywood to protect his res- taurant, the Cruisin Cafe, two blocks from the Day- tona Beach boardwalk. He added: "A lot of peo- ple here, they laugh, and say they've been through storms before and they're not worried. But I think this is the one that's going to give us a wake-up call." The hurricane picked up wind speed as it closed in, growing from a possi- bly devastating Category 3 storm to a potentially cata- strophic Category 4 by late morning. Forecasters said it could dump up to 15 inches of rain in some spots and cause a storm surge of 9 feet or more. They said the major threat to the Southeast would not be the punish- ing winds — which newer buildings can withstand — but the massive surge of sea- water that could wash over coastal communities along a 500-mile stretch from South Florida to Charles- ton, South Carolina, area. 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