THE 2016 E L E C T IO N S

BY: BAUMANN ERIK

• IT WAS HELD ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016.
• IT WAS THE 58TH QUADRENNIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
• THE WINNER WOULD BE THE 45TH U.S. PRESIDENT.
• IT IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST POLITICAL UPSETS IN AMERCICAN HISTORY
• THE INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HAD SERVED TWO TERMS, WHICH MADE HIM
INELIGIBLE TO RUN DUE TO THE TERM LIMITS ESTABLISHED BY THE TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES:

• TED CRUZ
• MARCO RUBIO
• DONALD TRUMP (FRONT-RUNNER)
• JEB BUSH
• BEN CARSON
• JOHN KASICH
DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES:

• HILLARY CLINTON (FRONT-RUNNER)

• BERNIE SANDERS
DONALD TRUMP
American business
Went to Wharton
magnate, investor,
Born: June 14, 1946 School of the University
television personality
of Pennsylvania.
and author.

Became president of
his father’s company
Running mate: Mike First president without
and later renamed it
Pence Military Service.
The Trump
Organisation.
CAMPAIGN: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
• THINGS LIKE TRUMP’S POPULIST POSITIONS IN OPPOSITION TO ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION AND VARIOUS TRADE AGREEMENTS AND HIS DISDAIN FOR POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS GAINED HIM MANY VOTES.
• TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS AND REMARKS WERE IMMENSLY SHARED
ONLINE AND THROUGH MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WHICH HELPED HIM REACH MORE
PEOPLE AND MAKE HIM MORE POPULAR
• MOST OF THE ELECTORAL VOTES NEEDED TO WIN, CAME FROM VOTERS IN THE RUST
BELT WHO SWITCHED FROM SUPPORTING BERNIE SANDERS TO TRUMP AFTER
HILLARY CLINTON WON THE DEMOCRAT NOMINATION.
 • Broken Promises:
• KEPT PROMISES:
•Repeal Obama care
• INCREASE VETERANS’ HEALTH CARE •Expand national right to carry to all
• DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD 50 states
• LIMIT LEGAL MIGRATION •Remove all undocumented
• THE WALL (FUNDED BY THE US INSTEAD OF immigrants
MEXICO) •End birthright citizenship

TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN PROMISES:

HILLARY CLINTON
67th U.S. secretary
U.S. senator First Lady of the U.S.
Born october 26, of state under
representing New as the wife of Bill
1947 president Barack
York (2001-2009) Clinton (1993-2001)
Obama (2009-2013)

Earned a Juris Law First woman to win a

Running mate: Tim
degree at Yale Law presidential
Kaine
School. nomination.
CAMPAIGN:
• HER CAMPAIGN WAS MAINLY FOCUSED ON EXPANDING RACIAL, LGBT, AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS, RAISING WAGES AND
ENSURING EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN AND IMPROVING HEALTH CARE.

• SHE GOT THE MOST SUPPORT FROM MIDDLE AGED AND OLDER VOTERS, ASWELL AS AFRICAN-AMERICAN, LATINO AND OLDER
FEMALE VOTERS. MEANWHILE TRUMP WAS ESPECIALLY POPULAR AMONGST MALE, WHITE, BLUE-COLLAR VOTERS AND
THOSE WITHOUT COLLEGE DEGREES.

• CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN WAS JUST AS AGGRESSIVE AS TRUMP’S, USING HASHTAGS AND CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT TO
REACH MORE PEOPLE.

• EXIT POLLS SHOWED THAT HER POLITICAL CORRECTNESS TURNED THE MAJORITY OF THE WHITE FEMALE DEMOGRAPHIC TO
TRUMP.
THE
ELECTION:
• TRUMP: • CLINTON:

• ELECTORAL VOTES: 304 • ELECTORAL VOTES: 227

• POPULAR VOTES: 62,984,828 • POPULAR VOTES: 65,853,514

• THE FBI STARTED AN INVESTIGATION IN 2017 AND FOUND OUT THAT RUSSIA HAD
INTERFERED IN THE ELECTIONS IN TRUMP’S FAVOR. ON JULY 2018, AN INDICTMENT
STARTED AGAINST 12 RUSSIAN HACKERS.
• HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/2016_UNITED_STATES_PRESIDENTIAL_ELEC
TION

• •
HTTPS://WWW.FBI.GOV/WANTED/CYBER/RUSSIAN-INTERFERENCE-IN-2016-U-S-
ELECTIONS

• • HTTPS://WWW.HILLARYCLINTON.COM/ISSUES/

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HTTPS://WWW.BRITANNICA.COM/BIOGRAPHY/DONALD-TRUMP/PRESIDENTIA
L-ELECTION-OF-2016