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Donald Trump won the general election of Tuesday, November 8, 2016. He lost the popular vote but won the electoral college. Most polls correctly predicted a popular vote victory for Clinton, but overestimated the size of her lead, with the result that Trump's electoral college victory was a surprise to analysts. Retrospective analyses differ as ...
Super Tuesday[edit] Super Tuesday is the name for March 1, 2016, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state presidential primary elections will be held in the United States. It will include Republican primaries in nine states and caucuses in two states, totaling 595 delegates (24.1% of the total).
A survey conducted by The Economist/YouGov released July 9, 2015, was the first major nationwide poll to show Trump as the 2016 Republican presidential front-runner. A Suffolk/USA Today poll released on July 14, 2015, showed Trump with 17 percent support among Republican voters, with Jeb Bush at 14 percent.
Trump won Michigan 11:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time; Clinton won New Hampshire 2:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time; Trump won Arizona 4:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time; Trump led Arizona after 100% of votes were counted 1:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time; Trump led Michigan after 100% of votes were counted 9:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time; Trump won Alaska 8:59 AM ...
The Reuters/Ipsos poll of 6,426 people, taken from Dec. 27 to Jan. 18, shows the number of respondents who argued with family and friends over politics jumped 6 percentage points from a pre ...
The 2016 election was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. [2] [23] 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 Maine ...
t. e. Media coverage of the 2016 presidential election was a source of controversy during and after the 2016 election, with various candidates, campaigns and supporters alleging bias against candidates and causes. Studies have shown that all 2016 candidates received vastly less media coverage than Donald Trump.
The election was the 58th quadrennial United States presidential election, held on November 8, 2016. The presidential primaries and caucuses were held between February 1 and June 14, 2016, staggered among the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories. The U.S. Congress certified the electoral result on January 6, 2017, and the new ...