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The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention, held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 25 to 28, 2016.The convention gathered delegates of the Democratic Party, the majority of them elected through a preceding series of primaries and caucuses, to nominate a candidate for president and vice president in the 2016 United States ...
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 ...
[1] [2] [5] Among the general election candidates, Trump received inordinate amounts of coverage on his policies and issues, as well as on his personal character and life, whereas Hillary Clinton's emails controversy was a dominant feature of her coverage, earning more media coverage than all of her policy positions combined. [6] [7] [8] [9]
“It was only when the Democratic Party took up the mantle of civil rights in the mid to late 1960s that Black support for the Party coalesced into the reliable Democratic voting bloc we know ...
A candidate must win 2,383 delegates at the national convention, in order to win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. [165] For the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and for Democrats Abroad, fixed numbers of pledged delegates are allocated.
The presidential election is less than a month away and Black voters will prove to be critical in determining the winner as the voting bloc helped swing the last race in President Donald Trump‘s ...
2016 Democratic Party's presidential nominating process in the District of Columbia – Summary of results – Candidate Popular vote Estimated delegates Count Percentage Pledged Unpledged Total; Hillary Clinton: 76,704 77.95% 16 23 39 Bernie Sanders: 20,361 20.69% 4 2 6 Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente: 213 0.22% Under votes 611 0.62% Write-in 485
It could be seen a major accomplishment in garnering veteran support to take the county harboring the world's largest military base, but the Democratic nominee only beat Trump 56.7 percent to 40.7 ...