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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 ...
[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]
This was the first election with a female presidential nominee from a major political party, as well as the first election since 1944 that had major party presidential nominees from the same home state. Clinton won the popular vote, taking 48% of the vote compared to Trump's 46% of the vote, but Trump won the electoral vote and thus the presidency.
Trump won Michigan 11:55 AM Pacific Standard Time; Clinton won New Hampshire 2:04 PM Pacific Standard Time; Trump won Arizona 4:37 PM Pacific Standard Time; Trump led Arizona after 100% of votes were counted 1:33 PM Pacific Standard Time; Trump led Michigan after 100% of votes were counted 9:08 AM Pacific Standard Time; Trump won Alaska 8:59 AM ...
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 ...
Matthew is just beginning to make landfall along the eastern coast of Florida, but there's no shortage of speculation about how it will impact politics.
The media's coverage of Trump generated some disagreement as to its effect on his campaign. [378] Writing in The Washington Post, John M. Sides argued that Trump's success was because of the mass news coverage, [379] yet a later article in The Washington Post stated that he remained successful in spite of the drop in media attention. [380]
On April 29, 2016, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana announced that he would vote for Cruz in the primary election. [224] Although Trump was outspent by a margin of more than 4–1, he handily won Indiana with 53.3% of the vote, winning a plurality in every Congressional District and taking all 57 delegates. [ 225 ]