“ 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
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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
The New York Times columnist David Brooks calls it “the greatest political shock of our lifetime.” At the end of August, it seemed as though Donald Trump was destined to fail in his bid to become the 45th President of the United States. After months of new revelations of sexual harassments and use of vulgar language, spectators of the political sport were almost certain that Secretary Clinton would win, and then that fateful day came. Everyone, including some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters were shocked at the outcome of the election, leaving many to ask how such a thing could happen. While still shocking, ideas and concepts learned in the Election the President seminar have helped to explain the process, the results, and even the candidates themselves.
Trump uses the word “great” to push the idea of American exceptionalism. This provides a newly embraced sense of pride and patriotism that the audience had not felt since. Trump then uses the word “again” to suggest looking backward towards past eras for models that will move America forward to meet the unprecedented demographic, technological, climatological and ethical challenges faced with today. Although his campaign does not specify the details of what era was ‘great’, this appeals to older generations that be post WWII to either the early seventies or early eighties, when middle class incomes rose in lockstep with the wealthy- when one was proud to call themselves American. The word “again” also instills fear in the audience. It implies that America is currently not ‘great’, and changes need to be made. Trump then takes advantage of the nation’s fear. He positions himself as the nation’s hero - the only one who can secure borders, fight off terrorists, and install that ‘greatness’ once again. He boasts himself up as this hero, making his greatness America’s greatness as well. This slogan helps promote Trump as a savior figure, earning his popularity among a scared
This year the presidential elections will take place at the beginning of November, and there are lots of people wondering how this is going to end. Some candidates for these presidential elections may not have been the best choice for their respective parties, but the one that really shouts, “I should not be here” is Mr. Donald Trump. His personality and actions are not the correct ones for a president because of his temper and comments against other cultures. On the other hand, we have Mrs. Clinton who is a more competent candidate; she has more experience on the field of politics than Mr. Trump who has none at all, which are the reasons why she is a better choice as a candidate and as president of the U.S.
I think there were many things that played in the role of Trump winning and the number one I believe was that the so called “Reagan Democrats” made another large appearance from Michigan and the midwest. Trump highly concentrated his efforts in those rural areas and reached out to those american people who lost their job to foreign trade due to trade deals, which he was fighting against through his whole campaign. Like Trump, Reagan was a bit of an odd candidate since the majority of the country was used to seeing him on their tv and movies, but he related to the people. Even though Trump was outlandish and had some cruel things to say about minorities and was a bit cocky, he still related to these everyday less political people and spiked
American presidential election of 2016 was a few weeks ago, many are scratching their heads following the outcome result. Many, including myself are, asking the question who voted to bring Trump into office? No the better question is who did not vote to keep Trump out of the office. This must have been the same feelings and questions people had in the election of 1968 with Nixon, as the options they were left with to choose was not one of which many were enthused about. Richard Milhous Nixon born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. (Biography.com Editors, paragraph 2) Donald John Trump, born in June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York. Both were one of five Children of their families. (Biography.com Editors, paragraph 2). In both of their of biographies, Nixon attended Duke University and earned a degree in law but Trump attended Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in economics. What lead these two in to politic and clinching the title of the presidency as “Law and Order candidates.
The 2016 presidential election seemed to be a particularly hectic election. On November 8,2016, I was checking my Facebook newsfeed. As I scrolled through my newsfeed, I see a lot of posts related to the election. People would post opinions on each of the presidential candidates as well as which their predictions of which candidate will win. The newspaper websites provided frequent updates throughout the day to inform people about the progress of the election. That night, I watched tentatively as the ballots were being counted, and I saw people’s comments of shock and disbelief when Trump managed to get ahead of Hillary in terms of electoral college votes.
Trump's political successes are in a large part due to what James author of Situating Speech: A Rhetorical Approach to Political strategy “The effectiveness of strategy will partly depend on how a speaker utilizes the prevailing conditions of any speech event (audiences, situations of the time).” In other words, the effectiveness of a rhetorical strategy depends on how the speaker utilizes the times of the day. Which, in modern times requires the persuader to utilize multiple mediums to reach the public. Furthermore the persuader must be able to deal with the constant news
Washington politics even longer, and have circulated through high government posts since the Nixon administration of the early 1970s”(EIERMANN). Its has been researching numerous times that politics in the U.S has been controlled by the elites making decisions benefiting them regardless of public opinion. Per Martin Eiermann said it comes with the territory, anytime a concentration of power is build, there will be elites to control it. It 's an inevitable feature of mass organizations. The bigger and more complex it is, the more likely you’ll get a core group of individuals with a hivemind establishing monopolies of information. It wasn’t until the recent decades that the public was suspicious, of the elites and the power they have over democracy and organizations in America. So, this fear of Hillary and these other candidates potentially controlling all these media outlets wasn’t unreasonable.
“Make America Great Again.” This is the quote that has been polarizing pundits and the electorate alike throughout this current 2015-16 Presidential Election Season. The man behind the quote, Donald J. Trump, is equally as polarizing in almost everything else he says. From banning Muslims until we can “figure out what is going on” to building a wall along the U.S-Mexican Border, Trump’s rhetoric has garnered praise, condemnation, and everything in between (Trump “Temporary Ban on Muslims”). What is the purpose behind all these dramatic decisions “The Donald” has advocated? What is the meaning behind “Make America Great Again?” The answer is that Donald Trump, in fact, wishes to revitalize the American Dream. Trump states that we have been led astray from the American Dream due Democratic Party and Washington failures. Through his policies of building a border wall, attacking Islamic extremism, and making economic deals for the American populace, the real-estate mogul will build a dream that is “bigger and better and stronger than ever” (Trump “Presidential Announcement Speech”).
The 2016 presidential election had been a contentious one even before the primaries began. A divide within parties and between the public grew increasingly evident over the past year, ultimately leading to a candidate with no prior political experience beating out a candidate with forty-plus years on her resume. Scandals plagued both campaigns, however, polls and positive media coverage stayed firmly in Hillary Clinton’s favor throughout the duration of the election process with Donald Trump even claiming that the polls were “rigged” and the media was biased. While the veracity of these claims cannot be verified, today we know that the polls were wrong and the media that all but handed the election to Clinton were wrong as well. So how did Trump, someone many said would need a miracle to make it to the White House, beat all the odds and his seemingly strong opponent to become President? Though pundits are still struggling to understand it, the rise of Donald Trump shouldn’t have surprised anyone. For the pioneering German sociologist Max Weber, it would have been entirely predictable, a classic example of the politics of charisma.
Trump’s victory surprised many experts and pollsters who had predicted Clinton would come out on top. The results of the election poll also favored Clinton. She won that vote 6,893 to 3,540. One of Trump’s main challenges was to persuade voters that he has the attitude, knowledge, and judgment to be president. He was able to attract more than enough voters to his side. However, Clinton appeared to have won the
Throughout the process campaigning and touring the United States both Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton attempted to gain the vote of the American people. Many news outlets rooted and were even sure that Hilary Clinton would be the next president of the United States. However to the surprise of America, on November 8th 2016, Donald Trump reached a
Everyone around the United States is talking about the presidential election coming up. I believe Donald Trump won seeing that in the end he understood what people wanted to hear whereas Hillary Clinton is blinded.
The shocking win, defying late polls that showed Donald Trump with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mrs. Clinton unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold.
Almost every poll since the beginning of the election put Hillary Clinton in the lead. So how did Trump win? It was the silent voters and the rural counties that gave Trump the win. Most of the largely populated counties that Hillary campaigned in she won. But it wasn’t enough to beat the unexpected turnout from the rural counties throughout the U.S.