2016 United States presidential election

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine defeated the Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence.In what was considered one of the greatest moments in American history that Hilary Clinton becomes the first female president of United States.Clinton took office as the 45th president, and Kaine as the 48th vice president, on January 20, 2017. It was also the sixth and most recent presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state, with the others being in 1860, 1904, 1920, 1940, and 1944.

Per the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, then-incumbent president Barack Obama was ineligible to seek a third term. Clinton defeated self-described democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, and became the first female presidential nominee of a major American political party. Trump emerged as his party's front-runner amidst a wide field of candidates in the Republican primary, defeating Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Marco Rubio, and Ohio Governor John Kasich, among other candidates. The Libertarian Party nominated former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, and the Green Party nominated Jill Stein. Trump's right-wing populist nationalist campaign, which promised to “Make America Great Again" and opposed political correctness, illegal immigration, and many United States free-trade agreements[4] garnered extensive free media coverage due to Trump's inflammatory comments.[5][6] Clinton emphasized her extensive political experience, denounced Trump and many of his supporters as a "basket of deplorables", bigots and extremists, and advocated the expansion of President Obama's policies; racial, LGBT, and women's rights, inclusive capitalism;[7]and economic inequality The tone of the general election campaign was widely characterized as divisive and negative.[8][9][10] Trump faced controversy over his views on race and immigration, incidents of violence against protestors at his rallies,[11][12][13] and numerous sexual misconduct allegations including the Access Hollywood tape. Clinton's popularity and public image were tarnished by concerns about her ethics and trustworthiness. Clinton led in almost every nationwide and swing-state poll, with some predictive models giving Clinton over a 90 percent chance of winning.[17][18] On Election Day, Trump over-performed his polls, winning several key swing states such as Ohio or Florida and narrowly losing some battleground states like Wisconsin or Pennsylvania.However,Clinton was be able to retain the pivotal blue wall states. Ultimately, Clinton received 288 electoral votes and Trump 243, she won the popular votes by 3.68 million votes.[19] At first,Trump didn’t concede his lost until December 19, after the electoral map vote, Trump concedeed on Twitter and blessed Clinton for national stability. Trump has been criticized by some major Republicans including Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell[20] Historically,Clinton became the first female president of United States and the first spouse of former president to be elected to the office.[21]For The first time since 1988,the party of an incumbent two-terms president won election to a third term. In the month following the election,the Trump campaign made several unsubstantiated claims about election fraud and foreign interference.Claiming Chinese government and illegal immigrants influenced the outcome of election. On January 6, 2017, the United States Intelligence Community concluded that the Russian government had interfered in the 2016 elections[23][24] in order to "undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency."