[20][21][22] Ultimately, Trump received 304 electoral votes and Clinton 227, as two faithless electors defected from Trump and five from Clinton. ", "What Happens if Trump Loses and Won't Concede? The following table is an overview of the money used in the campaign as it is reported to Federal Election Commission (FEC) and released in September 2016. [451][452] Results are from The New York Times. A HEXACO analysis of the presidential candidates' public personas", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2016_United_States_presidential_election&oldid=1166770860, At-large results (for states that split electoral votes), White evangelical or born-again Christian. [210] Many believed the video had doomed Trump's chances for election. This was due to the demographics targeted by Trump's campaign which lived in big numbers there, in addition to Clinton's poor performance in several of those swing states in comparison with Obama's performance in 2012, as well as having a big number of her potential voters in very populated traditionally 'blue' states, but also in some very populated states traditionally 'red', like Texas, which were projected safe for Trump.[509]. Clinton vs. Trump: Who Won the Popular Vote? - Heavy.com On April 19, Clinton won the New York primary with 58% of the vote. On June 4 and 5, Clinton won two victories in the Virgin Islands caucus and Puerto Rico primary. Unlikely. On December 9, 2016, the Central Intelligence Agency issued an assessment to lawmakers in the US Senate, stating that a Russian entity hacked the DNC and John Podesta's emails to assist Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the president-elect. After winning no delegates in Iowa, O'Malley withdrew from the presidential race that day. The winner of the statewide vote gets two additional electoral votes. States where the margin of victory was under 1% (50 electoral votes; 46 won by Trump, 4 by Clinton): States/districts where the margin of victory was between 1% and 5% (83 electoral votes; 56 won by Trump, 27 by Clinton): States where the margin of victory was between 5% and 10% (94 electoral votes; 76 won by Trump, 18 by Clinton): Red denotes states or congressional districts won by Republican Donald Trump; blue denotes those won by Democrat Hillary Clinton. [592][593][595], Intense lobbying (in one case involving claims of harassment and death threats)[596] and grass-roots campaigns were directed at various GOP electors of the United States Electoral College[597] to convince a sufficient number of them (37) to not vote for Trump, thus precluding a Trump presidency. Clinton is the fifth presidential candidate in history to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College. [492][493] Trump's smaller victories in Alaska and Utah also took some experts by surprise.[494]. [592][593] A partial recount of Michigan ballot found some precinct imbalances in Detroit, which were corrected. [282], Trump, who frequently criticized the mainstream media, was not endorsed by the vast majority of newspapers. "[208] The incident was condemned by numerous prominent Republicans like Reince Priebus, Mitt Romney, John Kasich, Jeb Bush[209] and the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. The 2024 election is more likely to hinge on traditional issues like inflation and the state of the economy than it is on relitigating 2020 or the scandal surrounding Jan. 6 and Trump's attempts . [303] The Senate Intelligence Committee announced the scope of their official inquiry on December 13, 2016, on a bipartisan basis; work began on January 24, 2017. I don't believe them anymore."[369]. chant by Trump supporters against Clinton", "Gretchen Whitmer: Trump 'inciting domestic terrorism' with 'Lock her up!' One Clinton elector in Maine voted for Bernie Sanders; this vote was invalidated as "improper" and the elector subsequently voted for Clinton. . ", "Comey notified Congress of email probe despite DOJ concerns", "FBI discovered Clinton-related emails weeks ago", "FBI finds no criminality in review of newly discovered Clinton emails", "Emails Warrant No New Action Against Hillary Clinton, F.B.I. [603], On December 6, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne W. Williams castigated Democratic electors who had filed a lawsuit in Federal court to have the state law binding them to the popular vote (in their case for Hillary Clinton) overturned. 2016 Presidential Election Results Hillary Clinton (D) - Total Electoral Votes - Popular Votes Donald Trump (R) - Total Electoral Votes - Popular Votes 270 of 538 Electoral Votes needed to. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed critics who say Hillary Clinton will likely win the popular vote despite losing the 2016 election. 2016 Electoral College Results | National Archives 9:19pm. The voter survey is based on exit polls completed by 24,537 voters leaving 350 voting places throughout the United States on Election Day, in addition to 4,398 telephone interviews with early and absentee voters. [331] In 2022, Barrack was found not guilty on all charges. [370], According to the authors of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, the White House had concluded by late Tuesday night that Trump would win the election. Trump won the presidency by clinching 304 electoral votes, well over the minimum 270 needed. 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Trump Wins", "Poll: Clinton, Trump running tight race in NJ", "Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball " The Electoral College: The Only Thing That Matters", "Trump Wouldn't Win Without Polish-Americans. Election fraud: Donald Trump falsely claims 'millions' of illegal votes Clinton's popularity and public image were tarnished by concerns about her ethics and trustworthiness,[14] and a controversy and subsequent FBI investigation regarding her improper use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, which received more media coverage than any other topic during the campaign. [560][561][562] Kendrick Lamar's song "Alright" was used repeatedly by protestors, despite the movement receiving no endorsement from Lamar himself. [221] The rejection of election results by a major nominee would have been unprecedented at the time as no major presidential candidate had ever refused to accept the outcome of an election until Trump did so himself in the following 2020 presidential election. [470] They represent a large portion of the American populace and were a major factor in Trump's eventual nomination. Election 2016. [372], The Associated Press called Pennsylvania for Trump at 1:35AM EST, putting Trump at 267 electoral votes. Trump further commented that the recount "is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded. They found that in every case, field inspectors were able to determine that the voters were from New Hampshire, though they were riding a bus operated by an out-of-state company (which has its name and address written on the outside of the bus, presumably the source of the confusion). [300] Julian Assange said the Russian government was not the source of the documents. Counties with highest percentage of Democratic vote: Results by state, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote. That might come as a surprise to people who Googled the phrase "Final Election Count" as . Who Won the Popular Vote in the 2016 Election? | POPSUGAR News [615] Likewise, for the first time since 1896,[c] multiple faithless electors voted against the pledged qualified vice presidential candidate. 2016 Presidential Election Results - POLITICO The study showed that Trump received nearly $2 billion in free media, more than double any other candidate. Between March 22 and April 9, Sanders won six caucuses in Idaho, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, and Wyoming, as well as the Wisconsin primary, while Clinton won the Arizona primary. '"[326][327], The Justice Department accused George Nader of providing $3.5 million in illicit campaign donations to Hillary Clinton before the elections and to Trump after he won the elections. Two faithless electors from Texas cast their presidential votes for Ron Paul and John Kasich, respectively. Without any further chances of forcing a contested convention, both Cruz[44] and Kasich[45] suspended their campaigns. 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[566][567] In a number of cities, protesters were dispersed with rubber bullets, pepper spray and bean-bags fired by police. [585] Concurrently, American Delta Party/Reform Party presidential candidate Rocky De La Fuente sought and was granted a partial recount in Nevada that was unrelated to Stein's efforts. "[314][315] [529][530] Sean Trende, writing for RealClearPolitics, wrote that many of the polls were accurate, but that the pundits' interpretation of these polls neglected polling error. Missouri election results from the 2016 general election. [321][322] In March 2020, the US Justice Department dropped its prosecution of two Russian firms linked to interference in the 2016 election. rally chant", "Trump insists after meeting: 'Mexico will pay for the wall! "The 2016 Election that Broke All, or At Least Most, of the Rules", in, Lloyd Gruber, "How political scientists got Trump exactly wrong. Rubio suspended his campaign after losing his home state. [496] Trump's crucial victories in the Midwest were aided in large part by his strong margins among non-college whiteswhile Obama lost those voters by a margin of 10 points in 2012, Clinton lost this group by 20 percent. | President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a USA Thank You Tour 2016 at the Giant Center, Dec. 15, 2016, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state and First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the biggest upsets in American political history. Peace and Freedom[147]Liberty Union Party[148], 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. This result stands in contrast to that of 2012, when President Barack Obama won all but Indiana, which he carried in 2008. December 22, 2016. [479], As the parameters of the race established themselves, analysts converged on a narrower list of contested states, which were relatively similar to those of recent elections. On February 9, Sanders bounced back to win the New Hampshire primary with 60% of the vote. Cruz won the most delegates in four Western contests and in Wisconsin, keeping a credible path to denying Trump the nomination on the first ballot with 1,237 delegates. Clinton had an uneasyand, at times, adversarialrelationship with the press throughout her life in public service. ", "Flashback: It's happened before: Truman's defeat of Dewey had hints of Trump-Clinton", "A 'Dewey Defeats Truman' Lesson for the Digital Age", "It Wasn't the Polls That Missed, It Was the Pundits", "An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States", "Election Update: Don't Ignore The PollsClinton Leads, But It's A Close Race", "Voter profiles in ten 2016 swing states", "2016 Election Forecast: Who Will Be President? The following weekend, Sanders won victories in Kansas, Nebraska, and Maine with 15- to 30-point margins, while Clinton won the Louisiana primary with 71% of the vote. [235], On October 28, eleven days before the election, FBI Director James Comey informed Congress that the FBI was analyzing additional Clinton emails obtained during its investigation of an unrelated case. After Donald Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination, many pundits felt that the major campaign locations might be different from what had originally been expected. By Sarah Begley. Rioters also broke glass at certain locations. . 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. Republicans now control the White House, the Senate, and the . [580][581] Changing the outcome of these three states would make Clinton the winner, and this would require showing that fewer than 60,000 votes had been counted for Trump which should have been counted for Clinton. [173] This group, particularly those without a high-school diploma, suffered a decline in their income in recent years. "[594] The overall outcome of the election remained unchanged by the recount efforts. The issue of islamophobia was demonstrated to be an important political issue for Muslim voters; an ISPU study done in 2016 found that, "outside the issues of discrimination and Islamophobia there aren't, like, one or two big issues that unite all Muslims. [579] The New Hampshire Secretary of State and New Hampshire Department of Justice issued a report in 2018 regarding complaints of voters being bused in from Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts for the 2016 election. Let's set the record straight once and for all: while Donald Trump fairly and legitimately won the election according to our electoral college system by winning 306 out of 538 electors, Hillary. Examining overall turnout in the 2016 election, University of Florida Michael McDonald estimated that 138.8 million Americans cast a ballot. Clinton won nearly 3 million more votes than he did, and Biden is on track to win nearly 6 million more votes than Trump. Several papers which endorsed Clinton, such as the Houston Chronicle,[274] The Dallas Morning News,[278] The San Diego Union-Tribune,[279] The Columbus Dispatch[280] and The Arizona Republic,[281] endorsed their first Democratic candidate for many decades. "[312], The second method of Russian interference saw the Russian intelligence service, the GRU, hacking into email accounts owned by volunteers and employees of the Clinton presidential campaign, including that of campaign chairman John Podesta, and also hacking into "the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Americans elected Donald Trump (R) as the 45th president of the United States on November 8, 2016. A total of 29 third party and independent presidential candidates appeared on the ballot in at least one state. Three states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan) which were considered to be part of Clinton's firewall, were won by Trump. The table below displays the official vote tallies by each state's Electoral College voting method. [532] According to a February 2018 study by Public Opinion Quarterly, the main sources of polling error were "a late swing in vote preference toward Trump and a pervasive failure to adjust for over-representation of college graduates (who favored Clinton)," whereas the share of "shy" Trump voters (who declined to admit their support for Trump to the pollsters) proved to be negligible. "[230] His response prompted widespread attention, much of it negative. [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 . "[376] In his speech, Trump appealed for unity, saying "it is time for us to come together as one united people", and praised Clinton as someone who was owed "a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.