The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on 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. Trump took office as the 45th president, and Pence as the 48th vice president, on January 20, 2017. It was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. The election was also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of members of Electoral College; these electors in turn directly elect the president and vice president.
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The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial 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. Trump took office as the 45th president, and Pence as the 48th vice president, on January 20, 2017. It was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. The U.S. government’s intelligence agencies concluded on January 6, 2017, that the Russian government had interfered in the 2016 elections in order to denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. A Special Counsel investigation of alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign began in May 2017 and ended in March 2019. The investigation concluded that Russian interference to favor Trump’s candidacy occurred in a’sweeping and systematic fashion’ but did not establish that members of theTrump campaign conspired or coordinated with the RussianGovernment. The election was also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of members of Electoral College; these electors in turn directly elect the president and vice president. The president and Vice President of the United States must be natural-born citizens of the US, at least 35 years old, and residents of the U. States for a period of at least 14 years. The general election in November is also a direct election where voters vote for delegates to a party’s convention, who then officially nominate a candidate to run on the party’s behalf.
The Democratic and Republican parties held a series of presidential primary elections and caucuses that took place between February and June 2016, between the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Green and Libertarian parties, such as the Green and Green parties, also held primary elections between June and July 2016, staggered among the states and territories. The New York Times published an article predicting that the 2016 general election would be between Clinton and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, while an article in The Times named New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as potential presidential nominee. On November 8 2012, two days after the 2012 election, New York magazine declared that Clinton would be the 2016 presidential candidate. The article was based on an article that had been published two days earlier in an article published by the New York City Review. On the same day, The Times released an article declaring that Clinton and Jeb Bush would be potential presidential candidates for the 2012 presidential election. On that day, the Times also published a article predicting the 2012 general election between Bush and New York Governor Cory Booker, while the article said Booker would be a potential presidential candidate for the Republican Party. The 2016 election was held on November 8. Clinton defeated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and became the first female presidential nominee of a major American party. Trump emerged as his party’s front-runner amidst a wide field of Republican primary candidates defeating Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Marco Rubio, and Ohio Governor John Kasich among other candidates.
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