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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.
- April 12, 2015 - Hillary Clinton Announces Run For President
- June 16, 2015 - Donald Trump Announces Run For President
- Aug. 6, 2015 - First Republican Primary Debate
- Sept. 8, 2015 - Clinton Apologizes For Private Email Server
- Oct. 22, 2015 - Clinton’s Benghazi Hearing
- Oct. 13, 2015 - First Democratic Primary Debate
- Dec. 7, 2015 - Trump Proposes A Ban on Muslim Entry to U.S.
- Feb. 2, 2016 - Iowa Caucuses
- Feb. 9, 2016 - New Hampshire Primaries
- May 3, 2016 - Ted Cruz Drops Out
After losing the 2008 election primary to President Obama and then serving as his secretary of state, Clinton decided to have another go at the presidency. Clinton launched her second campaign with a video message posted to her new campaign website. "Everyday Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion,” Clinton said in her presidentia...
The real estate mogul and reality television star glided down an escalator to his presidential announcement where he told supporters gathered at Trump Tower in New York City he’s "officially running for president of the United States." Donald Trump also declared if elected, he would “build a great wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border, “have Mexico pay f...
The first Republican primary debate featured 10 candidates, the most on one debate stage in modern history, but Trump was the center of attention. Trump, who had never been on a debate stage in his life, elicited boosfrom the audience for not ruling out running as a third party candidate and for not pledging his support to the eventual Republican n...
In an interview with ABC News’ David Muir, Clinton apologizedfor her private email server she kept when she was secretary of state. The controversy over her private email server has continued to dog Clinton’s campaign. It also contributed to some voters’ concerns that Clinton is too secretive and untrustworthy. “I should have used two accounts. One...
Clinton testifiedbefore a House Select Committee regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya in which four Americans were killed including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The hearing lasted more than 11 hours.
Clinton was joined on stage at the Wynn Las Vegas by her four fellow contenders for the White House -- former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, and her toughest primary competitor Sen. Bernie Sanders. Perhaps the most memorable moment from the debatewas Bernie Sanders’ remarks on ...
In a statement released Monday Dec. 7, Trump called for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States until "our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." Later that day, Trump read the statement to his crowd of supporters at a rally in Mount Pleasant, SC. The statement was criticized by liberals and Trump’...
In the first contest of the primaries, Clinton had an incredibly narrow win in the Democratic Iowa caucuses, beating Sanders by a mere three-tenths of a point. “The results tonight are the closest in Iowa Democratic caucus history," the state's Democratic chairman Andy McGuire said in a statementthat day. For Trump, however, he came in second to Te...
The New Hampshire primaries were momentous for Trump and Sanders -- both beating out the rest of their field with double digit leads. Out of the Republican candidates, Trump got his first win of the election with 35.3 percent of the vote. Sanders delivered a blow to Clinton’s campaign with a landslide finish in the Granite State. Sanders won 60.4 p...
The Republican primaries (and debates) were highly competitive, brutal, and at times, downright ugly. But no two Republican candidates had such an vicious rivalry as Cruz and Trump. At first cordial friends, Cruz and Trump were vaulting insults at each other nearly every day as the Republican primaries winded down. Trump called Cruz ‘Lyin’ Ted,’ an...
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Bernie Sanders prevailed in Wisconsin's Democratic primary, while Ted Cruz won Wisconsin's Republican primary . In the general election, Donald Trump unexpectedly won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 0.77%, with 47.22% of the total votes over the 46.45% of Hillary Clinton. Wisconsin emerged as the tipping-point state in the 2016 election.
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Here’s a look at six key states where votes were extremely close: New Hampshire : Trump won by 1,437 votes. Wisconsin: Trump won by 17,359 votes. Minnesota: Clinton beat Trump by 42,743 votes ...
Nov 8, 2017 · CNN —. It was supposed to be the coda to a long, brutal presidential campaign. The onset of a new era in American politics. And it was – just not in the way the candidates, their staffers ...
Nov 8, 2016 · Election 2016: The race for battleground states. Most votes are being cast on Tuesday, 8 November, although more than 40 million people took part in early or absentee voting. The candidate with ...
Nov 20, 2016 · Politics Nov 20, 2016 3:03 PM EDT. The vast majority of ballots have been counted nearly two weeks after one of the biggest political upsets in modern U.S. history catapulted Donald Trump to the ...
