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The 2016 election was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Six states plus a portion of Maine that Obama won in 2012 switched to Trump (Electoral College votes in parentheses): Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan (16), Wisconsin (10), Iowa (6), and ...
The 2016 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, while Republicans retained control of Congress. This marked the first and most recent time Republicans won or held unified control of the presidency ...
Donald Trump won the general election of Tuesday, November 8, 2016. He lost the popular vote but won the electoral college . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most polls correctly predicted a popular vote victory for Hillary Clinton , but overestimated the size of her lead, with the result that Trump's electoral college victory was a surprise to analysts.
Political positions of the Democratic Party presidential primary candidates, 2016; 2016 United States presidential election timeline; 2016 Democratic National Convention; Candidates. Republican Party presidential candidates, 2016; United States third party and independent presidential candidates, 2016; Primaries. Democratic Party presidential ...
Russel Abad. Updated August 3, 2016 at 3:16 PM. Meet the other candidates on the 2016 presidential ticket. BY RUSSEL ABAD. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may be the front-runners of the 2016 ...
Mitt Romney. Governor of Massachusetts 2003–07; presidential candidate in 2008; presidential nominee in 2012 [101] Paul Ryan. U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 1999–2019, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives 2015–19, vice presidential nominee in 2012 [102] Joe Scarborough.
The United States presidential candidates in the 2016 United States presidential candidates by political affiliation hold a wide variety of stances on issues related to domestic and foreign policy and their political ideological views.
Barack Obama. Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton. Presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for President in the 2016 United States presidential election.