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Donald Trump Win The Election Essay

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“ How Trump Won the Election”

For some Americans, it was hard for them to imagine that Donald Trump could successfully win the election of 2016. While both Trump and Hillary were widely disliked, Trump came out successful in the end. This marvel begged many Americans to ask and wonder, how did Trump win the election? There are a few main things that I believe really caused Trump to win the election. These things are: a simple message and his opponent.

To begin with, Trump's simple message really resonated with many Americans who found the “American Dream” to be a fitting way of life. This message was “ Make America Great Again.” These four words can be described as following, “ ...it captured both pessimism and optimism, both …show more content…

Almost all media stations were predicting that Trump would lose the election and Hillary would come out victorious, however, that of course was not the case. Trump came out with 304 electoral votes while Hillary had 227. One Media outlet stated, “ I predicted Clinton would get 318 or 320 electoral votes and win the popular vote by five or six points.” The media had almost entirely made up their mind on Hillary winning even going as far as to say, “That probability is that Hillary Clinton, with all her strengths and weaknesses, is going to win on 8 November, and is quite possibly going to win by a very large margin. Unless something quite exceptional and so far wholly undetected is happening – the instinct for bet-hedging, you see, is hard to shake off even here – Clinton will be taking over the White House in January.” The media based their tellings off of personal and sometimes false information. In the article, “ How I Got the Election Wrong” the journalist describes how he was unwilling and unable to open his eyes and hear the point of views of other more “common” american citizens with different views. He said that the type of people he surrounded himself with were people with the same views and that he was unaware of the growing amount of people who were voting and advocating for

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