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The United States presidential  election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial American presidential  election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of  businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the  Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S.  Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine. Trump took office as the 45th  President, and Pence as the 48th Vice President, on January 20, 2017.  Concurrent with the presidential election, Senate, House, and many  gubernatorial and state and local elections were also held on November  8.
Voters selected members of the Electoral  College in each state, in most cases by "winner-takes-all" plurality;  those state electors in turn voted for a new president and vice  president on December 19, 2016. While Clinton received about 2.9 million  more votes nationwide, a margin of 2.1%, Trump won with 57% of electors  in the Electoral College, winning 30 states with 306 pledged electors  out of 538. He won the perennial swing states of Florida, Iowa and Ohio,  as well as Clinton's "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and  Wisconsin, which had been Democratic strongholds in presidential  elections since the 1990s. Leading up to the election, a Trump victory  was considered unlikely by almost all media forecasts.
In the Electoral College vote on December 19,  seven electors voted against their pledged candidates: two against Trump  and five against Clinton. A further three electors attempted to vote  against Clinton but were replaced or forced to vote again. Ultimately,  Trump received 304 electoral votes and Clinton garnered 227, while Colin  Powell won three, and John Kasich, Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders, and Faith  Spotted Eagle each received one.
Trump is the fifth person in U.S. history to  become president despite losing the nationwide popular vote. He is the  first president without any prior experience in public service or the  military, while Clinton was the first woman to be the presidential  nominee of the Democratic Party.
This was the first time since the landslide  1984 re-election of Ronald Reagan that Wisconsin voted for the  Republican nominee, and the first time since 1988 that the Republican  nominee won the states of Pennsylvania and Michigan as well as Maine's  2nd Congressional District. It was also the first time since the 1828  election of Democratic nominee Andrew Jackson that an electoral vote  split occurred in Maine.
The United States government's intelligence  agencies concluded the Russian government interfered in the 2016 United  States elections. A joint US intelligence review stated with high  confidence that, "Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence  campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals  were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate  Secretary Hillary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential  presidency. Further, the US intelligence community stated "Putin and the  Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect  Trump."
Hillary Clinton focused her candidacy on  several themes, including raising middle class incomes, expanding  women's rights, instituting campaign finance reform, and improving the  Affordable Care Act. In March 2016, she laid out a detailed economic  plan basing her economic philosophy on inclusive capitalism, which  proposed a "clawback" which would rescind tax relief and other benefits  for companies that move jobs overseas; with provision of incentives for  companies that share profits with employees, communities and the  environment, rather than focusing on short-term profits to increase  stock value and rewarding shareholders; as well as increasing collective  bargaining rights; and placing an "exit tax" on companies that move  their headquarters out of America in order to pay a lower tax rate  overseas. Clinton promoted equal pay for equal work to address current  alleged shortfalls in how much women are paid to do the same jobs men  do, promoted explicitly focus on family issues and support of universal  preschool, expressed support for the right
to same-sex marriage, and proposed allowing  undocumented immigrants to have a path to citizenship stating that its  at its heart a family issue."
Donald Trump's campaign drew heavily on his  personal image, enhanced by his previous media exposure. The primary  slogan of the Trump campaign, extensively used on campaign merchandise,  was Make America Great Again. The red baseball cap with the slogan  emblazoned on the front became a symbol of the campaign, and has been  frequently donned by Trump and his supporters. Trump's right-wing  populist positions—reported by The New Yorker to be nativist,  protectionist, and semi-isolationist—differ in many ways from  traditional conservatism. He opposed many free trade deals and military  interventionist policies that conservatives generally support, and  opposed cuts in Medicare and Social Security benefits. Moreover, he has  insisted that Washington is "broken" and can only be fixed by an  outsider. Trump support was high among working and middle-class white  male voters with annual incomes of less than ,000 and no college  degree. This group, particularly those with less than a high-school  education, suffered a decline in their income in recent
years. According to The Washington Post,  support for Trump is higher in areas with a higher mortality rate for  middle-age white people. A sample of interviews with more than 11,000  Republican-leaning respondents from August to December 2015 found that  Trump at that time found his strongest support among Republicans in West  Virginia, followed by New York, and then followed by six Southern  states.
Clinton had an uneasy, and at times  adversarial relationship with the press throughout her life in public  service. Weeks before her official entry as a presidential candidate,  Clinton attended a political press corps event, pledging to start fresh  on what she described as a "complicated" relationship with political  reporters. Clinton was initially criticized by the press for avoiding  taking their questions, after which she provided more interviews.
In contrast, Trump benefited from free media  more than any other candidate. From the beginning of his campaign  through February 2016, Trump received almost billion in free media  attention, twice the amount that Clinton received. According to data  from the Tyndall Report, which tracks nightly news content, through  February 2016, Trump alone accounted for more than a quarter of all 2016  election coverage on the evening newscasts of NBC, CBS and ABC, more  than all the Democratic campaigns combined. Observers noted Trump's  ability to garner constant mainstream media coverage "almost at will".  However, Trump frequently criticized the media for writing what he  alleged to be false stories about him and he has called upon his  supporters to be "the silent majority". Trump also said the media "put  false meaning into the words I say", and says he does not mind being  criticized by the media as long as they are honest about it.
Both Clinton and Trump were seen unfavorably  by the general public. In consequence, the controversial nature of both  main parties' campaigns marked the road to the election.
Clinton's practice of using her own private  email address and server during her time as Secretary of State, in lieu  of State Department servers, gained widespread public attention back in  March 2015. Concerns were raised about security and preservation of  emails, and the possibility that laws may have been violated. After  allegations were raised that some of the emails in question fell into  this so- called "born classified" category, an FBI probe was initiated  regarding how classified information was handled on the Clinton server.  The FBI probe was concluded on July 5, 2016, with a recommendation of no  charges, a recommendation that was followed by the Justice Department.  On October 28, eleven days before the election, FBI Director James Comey  informed Congress that the FBI was analyzing additional emails obtained  during its investigation of an unrelated case. On November 6, he  notified Congress that the new emails did
not change the FBI's earlier conclusion.
Also, on September 9, 2016, Clinton stated:  "You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of  Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're  racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it."  Donald Trump criticized Clinton's remark as insulting his supporters.  The following day Clinton expressed regret for saying "half", while  insisting that Trump had deplorably amplified "hateful views and  voices". Previously on August 25, 2016, Clinton gave a speech  criticizing Trump's campaign for using "racist lies" and allowing the  alt-right to gain prominence.
On the other side, on October 7, 2016, video  and accompanying audio were released by The Washington Post in which  Trump referred obscenely to women in a 2005 conversation with Billy Bush  while they were preparing to film an episode of Access Hollywood. The  audio was met with a reaction of disbelief and disgust from the media.  Following the revelation, Trump's campaign issued an apology, stating  that the video was of a private conversation from "many years ago". The  incident was condemned by numerous prominent Republicans like Reince  Priebus, Mitt Romney, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and the Speaker of the House  Paul Ryan. By October 8 several dozen Republicans had called for Trump  to withdraw from the campaign and let Pence head the ticket. Trump  insisted he would never drop out.
The ongoing of the election made third  parties attract voters' attention. On March 3, 2016, Libertarian Gary  Johnson addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference in  Washington DC, touting himself as the third-party option for anti-Trump  Republicans. In early May, some commentators opined that Johnson was  moderate enough to pull votes away from both Hillary Clinton and Donald  Trump who are very disliked and polarizing. Both conservative and  liberal media noted that Johnson could get votes from "Never Trump"  Republicans and disaffected Bernie Sanders supporters. Johnson also  began to get time on national television, being invited on ABC News, NBC  News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, and many other  networks. In September and October 2016, Johnson suffered a "string of
damaging stumbles when he has fielded  questions about foreign affairs." On September 8, Johnson, when he  appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe, was asked by panelist Mike Barnicle,  "What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?" (referring to a  war-torn city in Syria). Johnson responded, "And what is Aleppo?"  Johnson's "what is Aleppo?" question prompted widespread attention, much  of it negative. Later that day, Johnson said that he had "blanked" and  that he did "understand the dynamics of the Syrian conflict – I talk  about them every day."
On the other hand, Green Party candidate Jill  Stein stated that the Democratic and Republican parties are "two  corporate parties" that have converged into one. Concerned by the rise  of the far right internationally and the tendency towards neoliberalism  within the Democratic Party, she has said, "The answer to neofascism is  stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will  fan the flames of this right-wing extremism."
In response to Johnson's growing poll  numbers, the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic allies increased  their criticism against Johnson in September 2016, warning that "a vote  for a third party is a vote for Donald Trump" and deploying Senator  Bernie Sanders (Clinton's former primary rival and then-supporter) to  win over voters who might be considering voting for Johnson or for  Stein.
The election was held on November 8, 2016.  Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton cast her vote in the New York City  suburb of Chappaqua, while Republican candidate Donald Trump voted in a  Manhattan public school. Throughout the day, the election process went  more smoothly than many had expected, with only a few reports of long  lines and equipment problems.
The Republican candidate performed  surprisingly well in all battleground states, especially Florida, Ohio  and North Carolina. Even Wisconsin and Michigan, states that were  predicted to vote Democratic, were won by Trump. Cindy Adams, present at  Trump Tower, reported that "Trumptown knew they’d won by 5:30. Math,  calculations, candidate dislike causing voter abstention begat the  numbers".
On November 9, 2016, at 3:00 AM Eastern Time,  Trump secured over 270 electoral votes, the majority of the 538 electors  in the Electoral College, enough to make him the president-elect of the  United States. Clinton called Trump early on Wednesday morning,  conceding defeat. Clinton asked her supporters to accept the result and  hoped that Trump would be "a successful president for all Americans". In  his victory speech Trump appealed for unity saying "it is time for us to  come together as one united people" and praised Clinton who was owed "a  major debt of gratitude for her service to our country".
Six states plus a portion of Maine that Obama  won in 2012 switched to Trump. These are (with Electoral College votes  in parentheses): Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan  (16), Wisconsin (10), Iowa (6), and Maine's second congressional  district (1). Initially, Trump won exactly 100 more Electoral College  votes than Mitt Romney in 2012, with two lost to faithless electors the  following month. Thirty-nine states swung more Republican compared to  the previous Presidential election, while eleven states and the District  of Columbia swung more Democratic.
It is estimated that 138.8 million Americans  cast a ballot in 2016. 65.8 million of those ballots have been counted  for Clinton and just under 63 million for Trump, representing 20.3%  (Clinton) and 19.4% (Trump) of the U.S. Census Bureau estimate of U.S.  population that day of 324.9 million. Considering a voting age  population (VAP) of 251.1 million people and voting eligible population  (VEP) of 230.6 million people, this is a turnout rate of 55.3% VAP and  60.2% VEP. Voting turnout percentage was up compared to 2012 (54.9% VAP)  but down compared to 2008 (58.2% VAP). More votes were cast in the 2016  election than any prior election due to an increase in the voting  population.