Since the announcement of his running for presidency, Donald Trump was not taken seriously by the mass media and politicians. Trump who is an American businessmen and television personality announced his run for presidency from Trump Towers, New York in June of 2015. Trump was among several candidates who ran for the republican party. During the 2016 republican convention, Donald Trump was announced the winner and would be running against democratic nominee Hilary Clinton. 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 …show more content…
The result left many news outlets baffled and the question of how was Donald Trump able to win the vote despite the statements he made throughout his campaign. According to the newsweek.com, “blue-collar and working class voters got credit for Trump’s victory…but he flipped a lot of very white-collar voters as well”. In addition, the news site also mentioned that another reason was because voters wanted a change in government. One of the greater reasons as to why the GOP nominee won the election was because of the vote from the mid-west and white Americans with a lower education. In an article by Danielle Kurtzleben from npr.com stated that “whites without college degrees have fled to the GOP”. Up until the Bill Clinton administration, this group of voters was in the middle between the democratic and republican party, and since then have been in favor of the GOP. Kurtzleben later explained how white college graduates were in favor of Trump by 4 points, however whites who did not have a degree preferred Trump by 39
He then began to turn his attention to politics. Trump lacks political experience and a political background. In June of 2015 he announced his candidacy for president. He ran as a Republican. He won majority of the primaries and caucuses. He began as an official republican candidate for the presidency on June 19, 2016.
I am an early riser. It isn’t surprising, then, that on Election Night, despite Wolf Blitzer’s attention-disordered, apoplectic news coverage of Trump’s impending election, I was calm, even haughty as I tromped off to bed before 10 p.m.
This years presidential election might be the closest in US history! Donald Trump is the Republican candidate. He received 13.3 million votes in the primary election. Hillary Clinton is the Democratic candidate. She received 15.6 million votes in the primary election. This presidential election is very close in votes and either way could cause doom for America.
George Bush carried the Southern states and also secured wins in Ohio, Indiana, most of the rural Midwestern farming states, most of the Rocky Mountain states, and Alaska. Al Gore balanced Bush by winning most of the Northeastern United States, most of the Upper Midwest, and all of the Pacific Coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California, and even carried Hawaii. Wisconsin and Iowa, were extremely close; however it was the state of Florida that would decide the winner of the election. As the final national results were tallied the following morning, George Bush had clearly won a total of 246 electoral votes, while Gore had won 255 votes. 270 votes were needed to win. Mathematically, Florida's 25 electoral votes became the key to an election
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
According to the article, President-elect Trump won Tuesday’s night Presidential Election. First, Donald Trump won because he was helped by a depressed voter turnout, which always helps Republicans. Second, Hillary Clinton received the most votes in the presidential election, a higher percentage than Richard Nixon received in 1968, and Bill Clinton in 1992 but does not mean she won the whole election. Finally, another reason why Trump won is because prices for Obamacare increased substantially in some key states, including Arizona, just weeks before the election. This happened on Elecetion Day after results were officialy
Trump’s first 100 days took a chief executive approach; busy, bold, and tons of hard work and dedication. Trump completed and has accomplished more in office in 100 days than any other President since FDR. Before he took office and swear oath, he said there will be major changes. He wanted to repeal and replace Obamacare, change some illegal immigration rights, and pursue tax overhaul. Some say his results are mixed, are they really? Has he been successful in his first 100 days? As a republican, I highly agree and support Trump during his 100 days in office. He got stuff done to fix the country like he said he would.
On November 8, 2016 the US election took place. The two front runners, the Democratic nominee Hilary Clinton and the Republican nominee, Donald Trump went neck to neck in the presidential race. On this frightening night, millions of people watched America’s worst nightmare unfold right in front of their own eyes. Donald J. Trump the islamophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, homophobic, sexist, racist bigot defeated Hilary Clinton and became the 45th President of the United States of America. Donald Trump shouldn’t have even been nominated to run for president.
On the morning of November 9, 2016 the great citizens of this country discovered that Donald J. Trump won presidential election. His win would set off a firestorm of protests against his victory and against the archaic process that carried Trump to victory; the Electoral College. However, what followed was people from all over complaining about how Trump won the Electoral College and how come if Clinton won the popular vote that she didn’t become the first woman president. In my quest to understand the voting process, I learned there are many people that find the whole election process to complicated and are not even the slightest bit interested in learning what part the people play in electing the president.
Just a few days ago, November 9th 2016 to be exact, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton. Many people wonder “How?”, I’m going to break it down with facts.
In this article, from the British Broadcasting Corporation, the author explains what Donald Trump did during his campaign in order to win the presidency. First of all, Donald Trump focused on obtaining votes from states that could be swayed toward the Democratic or Republican side. As a result, Trump received these votes in addition to the typical Republican votes, allowing him to win the election. Donald Trump also spoke his mind no matter what others thought of him. According to the article, this was refreshing for many individuals who were tired of every politician being politically correct and never speaking their mind. In addition, the fact that Donald Trump was an outsider to politics was refreshing, according to the article. Lastly,
If you have not heard of Donald Trump, you have probably been living under a rock since at the very least the middle of 2015 when his presidential campaign begun. Donald Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States of America. Before running for president, Trump was, and still is, a businessman and television personality. He owns multi-million dollar properties and companies and appeared on a multitude of television shows, such as ‘The Apprentice’.
Controversial businessman and political figure Donald Trump has just announced his entire presidential campaign up to this point to be a fluke. While he has not dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination, Trump has stated he will recant certain statements made about those of Middle Eastern and Mexican background.
Donald Trump is the 2016 Republican presidential nominee and is also known for being a billionaire real estate mogul and reality television star. Although he has no political experience he is highly regarded for
During the 2000’s Trump started in The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice, an NBC reality TV series that became extremely popular throughout the United States. In 2015 Trump took advantage of his high-profile persona and announced his run for the GOP candidate in the Presidential election of 2016 (Bio). Trumps history has developed and shaped both his personality and leadership skills .