Every four years, in early November, American’s head to the polls to vote for the next president of the nation. After a lengthy two years of campaigning and debating, America’s votes were cast and Donald Trump became the nation’s president elect. Interestingly, Trump did not win the popular vote, he had two million less votes than his Democratic opposition, Hillary Clinton. Due to the use of the electoral college, Trump managed to win more states and more battleground states than Clinton, and thus won the electoral college vote. This election and its results have been a whirlwind of emotions for both Trump and Clinton supporters. Regardless of the outcome, the greatest part about knowing who the president elect is, is that this election has finally come to a halt.
What is noteworthy about his campaign is that Donald Trump ran his differently from the average politician. Trump both acted differently and spoke of people in whichever manner he pleased. Surprisingly, American’s thrived off of his ability to stand tall and remain true to himself. The main argument in this election between Clinton and Trump supporters was how they were more offended by Clinton’s actions than Trump’s words. No matter what Trump said, his followers still thought of him in a positive manner.
First of all, Donald Trump ran his campaign, in the kindest of words, unconventionally. He had no filter in debates, in rallies and on his social media platforms. While speaking one’s mind honestly is a great
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.
“Make America Great Again,” the overarching theme of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s campaign brings to light the blunt arrogance of our beloved Donald J. Trump. Trump: a billionaire businessman, entrepreneur, and part time reality TV monkey, started his presidential run as of June 2015. He has, since his declaration of his run, been the frontrunner for the GOP Poll breaking out above the other candidates of Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and many others by consistent double digits. His run so far has been filled with all things Americans lovingly refer to as in its entirety, Donald Trump: arrogance, controversial pursuits, and lack of explanation to anything he has planned. Though Trump himself has decades of experience with economics,
The 1980 presidential election of the United States featured three primary candidates, Republican Ronald Reagan, Democrat Jimmy Carter and liberal Republican John Anderson. Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he decided to run for the presidency. John Anderson was a representative in Illinois and Carter was the incumbent. The lengthy Iran hostage crisis sharpened public opinions by the beginning of the election season. In the 1970s, the United States were experiencing a straining episode of low economic growth, high price increases and interest rates and an irregular energy crisis. The sense of discomfort in both domestic and foreign affairs in the nation were heading downward, this added to the downward spiral that was already going on. Between Carter, Anderson and Reagan, the general election campaign of the 1980s seemed more concerned with shadowboxing around political issues rather than a serious discussion of the issues that concerned voters.
To secure the win the candidate must pass 270 of the electoral votes and even though seemed to be ahead of the race having more popular votes Trump passed 270 electoral votes just hours after the polls closed. Donald won 279 of the electoral votes while Hillary only won 228. Regardless of whether Trump had more or less of the popular votes it all comes down to the electoral votes. Although Trump has made many racist comments and angered many Hispanics he surprisingly won a lot of their votes which helped his victory with the electorate vote; As for African American voter the electorate vote went down slightly.(7 reasons) Compared to Obama Hillary just didn't do as well as he did when it comes to electoral votes and the popular vote. Trump on the other hand won the states of Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio, all which voted for Obama both elections. Trump was not only lucky by winning over states who were expected to be won by Hillary but got a lot of help when Hillary's email incident sparked outrage in many
In most of the presidential election, the candidate that wins the popular vote will win the electoral votes but as you seen in the election that doesn’t always happen. The electoral college creates a possibility for the loser of the popular vote to win the electoral vote. The candidate who receives the majority of the electoral votes which is two hundred seventy wins the election. Also, if the candidates get a tie on the electoral votes the election will be thrown in the hands of the House Of Representatives. This has happened five times out of the fifty-seven presidential elections. In 1824, the sixth president John Quincy Adams won the election against Jackson without winning the electoral or popular vote. In 1876, the nineteenth president Rutherford B. Hayes won the election even though he lost the popular vote by 250,000 against Samuel J. Tilden. In 1888, the twenty third president Benjamin Harrison won the presidency with two hundred thirty-three to one hundred sixty-eight electoral votes and he lost the popular vote ninety thousand against Grover Cleveland. In 2000, the forty third president George W. Bush won the presidency with two hundred seventy-one electoral votes while he lost the popular vote by five hundred forty thousand against Al Gore. Now president Donald Trump has become the president with two hundred ninety electoral votes while losing the
Last November, Donald Trump became the forty-fifth President of the United States even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.7 Million votes. Donald Trump won because of the Electoral College. The Electoral College gives each state a number of electors that can range from three to fifty-five depending on the size of the state. The number of electors is decided by combining the number of senators and representatives that state has. To win the presidential election, a candidate would have to get 270 electoral votes, if neither candidate gets 270 electoral votes then the senate and the House of Representatives get to choose the president or vice president. This system completely ignores the popular vote and the will of the people.
In present day today, President Donald trump won the election, not by popular vote. Instead, Donald trump won the presidential election through an Electoral College process. Also, in 2000 we have George W. Bush who received the greatest number of electoral votes, and thus won the presidency, didn’t win the popular vote. Electoral
How did Donald Trump appeal to the public? First, Trump emphasized on Clinton’s weaknesses such as her e-mail scandal. The result of the scandal resulted in a loss of trust for Clinton, by voters (Cristina Silva, para. 3). Second, Trump stayed confident during the race and never let his guard down. Trump got the attention of voters by being bold and demanding change (Cristina Silva, para. 4). Third, Trump had learned how to communicate with the public through his career on television. He could use what he learned from being on television to get publicity during debates and on other news networks. (Cristina Silva, para. 5). Fourth, Trump was well known before the election. The people who were well aware of Trump before the election tended to vote for him (Cristina Silva, para. 6). Fifth, Trump had enough money to self run his campaign and the extra donations helped in developing a new standard for campaigning (Cristina Silva, para. 7). Sixth, Trump appealed to voters with his plans on immigration and stopping Muslims from coming into the country. He taught civilians on how immigration is disruptive in our communities (Cristina Silva, para. 8,10). Seventh, Trump’s success as a businessman gave voters the impression that he will be a successful president (Cristina Silva, para. 11). Eighth, Trump gets points across with ease because he doesn’t use complicated words, making his plans easy to understand (Cristina Silva, para. 14). Ninth, Trump tells things how they are and is honest about what he thinks. Voters see him as a trustworthy candidate (Cristina Silva, para. 15). Tenth, Trump reached out to voters. During his campaign he went far and wide to spread what he had to say out to voters. He would also go off script in order to make his speeches more meaningful and from the heart (Cristina Silva, para. 19-20). Eleventh, Trump fought for swing states by visiting the mixed
The United States presidential election in the year 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore was one of the closest finishes in our country’s history. In addition to the election being so tightly contested, the election also provided an in depth look at the inner workings of our political process. There are 538 electors in the United States Electoral College, thus to win the presidency a candidate must receive the majority vote of at least 271 electoral votes. In the case of the presidential election of 2000, George W. Bush received 271 electoral votes and Al Gore received 266, thus George W. Bush achieved the majority and was eventually sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States. However, there were some unusual occurrences in the
Despite voting is not compulsory in United States, and the large majority of voters made their choice in favour of the Democratic Party, the election depends on the number of votes in the Electoral College, where Republican Donald Trump won by 278/578. His ideas rest on his firm slogan “Make America great again,” idea that involves a sense of racism, xenophobia, and to strongly disagree with the idea of the climate change, something that affects us all.
November 7, 2016. Many people remember this day as voting for the lesser of two evils in the 2016 presidential election. But, it didn’t matter who you voted for, the outcome of the election shocked the nation. Almost every poll predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the presidential election, but Trump proved them all wrong. After researching the analysis of the 2016 presidential election, some of the most compelling theories on why Trump won the election was the low election turnout, the desire for an outsider, and Trump’s simple message.
The 2016 Presidential Elections are right around the corner and many Americans are waiting until their votes are counted to find out who will be the President of the United States of America for the 2016-2020 term. All across America, the presidential candidates are attempting to get your support and to get your vote, but do these candidates really want to rebuild America and make this country great again? In these races there are many highly qualified candidates who want to grab your attention and address specific topics where they feel they are more qualified than their fellow candidates. Throughout all of the candidate’s campaigns, you have probably noticed many advertisements, posters and commercial’s with the contenders trying to gain your vote by accusing other candidates for failures or stating how they are “going to rebuild America.” The Republican and Democratic primaries are coming up in a month’s time. The Democratic Party is more straightforward with Hillary Clinton as the front-runner with Burney Sanders following behind. The Republican Party is more spread out with various candidates including Donald Trump (the front-runner), followed by Dr. Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich and Rand Paul. Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican Party, follows two goals stated in the Preamble of the United States Constitution: provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare.
Donald Trump recently gave a speech discussing rising Radical Islamic Terrorism, immigration from the Middle East, and a need for a rise in national security while Manchester, New Hampshire on June 13th 2016. He centers his whole speech around discussing how bad a President his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would be in difficult times. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Finance in 1968 with a bachelor 's degree in economics, and has become a very successful businessman. He’s the Republican nominee for this upcoming presidential election, and is a very controversial candidate and person. He has come under fire for many of his views that he discusses in his June 13th speech. While Trump does make some agreeably points, he renders his speech ineffective because of his heavy reliance on Clinton’s opinion to form his own. If Trump were to become President, his stance on important issues would need to be reached with careful consideration, and not just based on doing the opposite of his opponents.
Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America on November 8th, 2016, and now has been running our country for over a year. As Trump’s first year in office slowly began, his reputation seems to be creating different outside views of our nation and arguments started producing everywhere. After competing with Hillary Clinton for the presidential term in office, Trump defeated her along with her democratic supporters causing one of the most shocking elections in U.S. history. Using public media web pages, we are reviewing both sides of the argument regarding Trump’s election and we are going to decipher why each arguer supports their side, and why each side is reasonable for the benefit of our country.
When the results of voting on Election Day were released, Republican Nominee Donald J. Trump won the presidency with 290 electoral votes and 61,201,031 popular votes, compared to Clinton’s 232 electoral votes and 62,523,126 popular votes. Although Donald Trump lost the popular vote, he had won where it