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From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO -– In what has become a well-known election day routine, Hillary Clinton made a local retail stop in hopes of ginning up press coverage as voters head to the polls. But unlike previous Election Day visits, there was no press conference and her visit lasted less than 10 minutes.

Early this morning, the press assembled at a local bakery to await Clinton, who was already running late. When she arrived, she breezed into the shop greeting customers in her usual fashion. The press was kept a good distance away from Clinton, constantly asked by her advance staff to give her “another 10 or 15 feet.”

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From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

NEW YORK -- The Clinton campaign today held an hour-long conference call that offered no insight into the campaign’s thoughts moving forward should tomorrow's meeting of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee rule against fully seating the Florida and Michigan delegates at the national convention.

Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson sternly reminded reporters on the call that despite their best efforts to glean a bit of strategic information from the campaign as it looks past the committee's meeting, that they would not discuss it.

“You and others can ask this question in many different ways, but the answer is going to be the same: We are hopeful and expectant that the committee in its wisdom is going to do the right thing,” Wolfson said, almost scolding a reporter on the call.

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