Watch CNN's coverage of the 2016 election night when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States. Trump began his campaign declaring Mexican immigrants to be “rapists”; he closed it with an anti-Semitic ad evoking “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; his own behavior made a mockery of the dignity of women and women’s bodies. Clinton’s campaign centered on health care, rights for women, minorities and LGBT and fair taxes. Going into election night, Clinton led in nearly all final polls. “The point is that the relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion,” Orwell wrote in his essay “Freedom of the Park.” “The law is no protection. Many voters expressed a desire for change. States where the margin is <5% are shown as toss-up. There are, inevitably, miseries to come: an increasingly reactionary Supreme Court; an emboldened right-wing Congress; a President whose disdain for women and minorities, civil liberties and scientific fact, to say nothing of simple decency, has been repeatedly demonstrated. Trump’s assaults on Sen. Marco Rubio (“Little Marco”) and Sen. Ted Cruz (“Lyin’ Ted”) were equally telling. Later that month the DNC, officially neutral in the primary, was rocked by the release of nearly 20,000 hacked e-mails by WikiLeaks, a shadowy whistle-blowing “media organization.” The e-mails showed DNC officials tilting toward Clinton and ridiculing Sanders’s campaign. In an election unlike any other, 2016 included a number of firsts. © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. Candidates for the presidency typically seek the nomination of one of the political parties, in which case each party devises a method to choose the candidate the party deems best suited to run for the position. Trump was not elected on a platform of decency, fairness, moderation, compromise, and the rule of law; he was elected, in the main, on a platform of resentment. There were seven faithless presidential electors. In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report concluding that the Russians interfered with the election to "undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency.”. They will try to soothe their readers and viewers with thoughts about the “innate wisdom” and “essential decency” of the American people. Results of the U.S. presidential election, 2016. ", "Trump beats Republicans, not Clinton, in one-on-one matchups", "Emerson College Poll: Fear of Terrorism Highest Amongst GOP voters, Elevates Clinton and Trump. 1844: James K. Polk “Who is James K. Polk?” That was the question on everyone’s lips in 1844, when an obscure former congressman and Tennessee governor was announced as the Democratic nominee for president. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona, March 2016. Contents. The electorate has, in its plurality, decided to live in Trump’s world. For example, when Donald Trump was named the 45th president, he was really only the 44th president because Grover Cleveland is counted twice. In the Electoral College vote on December 19, there were seven faithless electors; two defected from Trump while five defected from Clinton. The fact that “traditional” Republicans, from George H. W. Bush to Mitt Romney, announced their distaste for Trump only seemed to deepen his emotional support. After a 2-year investigation, Mueller submitted his findings to the Justice Department in March 2019. Poll numbers verified as of November 8, 2016[update]. Cruz won several additional states, mostly lower-turnout caucus battles. Note: The Google advertisement links below may advocate political positions that this site does not endorse. West Virginia used to vote solidly Democratic. Surely, Breitbart News, a site of vile conspiracies, could not become for millions a source of news and mainstream opinion. Trump became the fifth person in U.S. history to become president despite losing the nationwide popular vote. United States Presidential Election of 2016, American presidential election held on November 8, 2016, in which Republican Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 2.8 million votes but won 30 states and the decisive electoral college with 304 electoral votes to Clinton’s 227 and thus became the 45th president of the United States. The African-American Other. In Democratic primaries Sanders also rode antiestablishment sentiment, leading to grassroots victories in 23 states and 43 percent of the Democratic primary vote.

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