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Clinton lost the electoral vote while winning the popular vote, in what the New York Times called a "surprise outcome" after polls leading up to election day had predicted a Clinton victory. [ 287 ] [ 288 ] Clinton was the first Democratic presidential contender to have won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote since Al Gore in 2000 ...
As of June 8, Hillary Clinton was considered the presumptive nominee according to media organizations. [1] On July 26, the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Clinton was confirmed the Democratic nominee for the 2016 United States presidential election. [2]
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign is an American book by political journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes about Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign. The book was published on April 18, 2017, by Crown Publishing Group, and aims to determine why Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump. [1]
The 2016 election was the first general election that now former President Donald Trump ran in as a major party candidate, defeating then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
When asked what she would change about the 2016 presidential election, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton gave a pretty obvious response: 'I’d win.'
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 ...
In Florida, the former secretary of state lost by just shy of 120,000 votes, handing Trump 29 electoral votes. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson alone received about 206,000 votes. Michigan was a ...
[30] [31] The election saw multiple third-party candidates, [32] and there were over a million write-in votes cast. [33] During the 2016 election, "pre-election polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton's likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent."