Clinton held the lead most pre-election nationwide polls as well as most swing state polls, leading some commentators to compare Trump’s victory to that of Harry S. Truman in 1948 as one of the greatest political upsets in modern U.S. history.
Donald Trump
Popular votes 62,984,828 or 46.1%
Received 2.87 million “LESS” votes nationwide (-2.1%)
Electoral vote 304 with 30 states
Hillary Clinton
Popular votes 65,853,514 or 48.2%
Received 2.87 million “MORE” votes nationwide (+2.1%)
Electoral vote 227 with 20 states
Clinton received more votes nationwide; the largest margin ever for a candidate who lost the electoral college.
How Republicans Cheated With Illegal and Unconstitutional Gerrymandering of Districts in the 2016 Election So That Donald Trump Would Win More Electoral Votes
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Election Investigations, Audits, and Recounts Underway: See How Voting Machines Were Hacked in Key States So That Donald Trump Would Win More Electoral Votes. Russian Espionage, Computer Hacking, and Collusion with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to Spread Fake News and Elect Donald Trump
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How and why the Donald won:
Here are 24 theories
https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/politics/why-donald-trump-won/index.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-donald-trump-won-the-presidential-election-4113292
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/11/13578618/why-did-trump-win
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37918303
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/explaining-donald-trump-s-shock-election-win/
https://qz.com/832830/election-2016-how-did-donald-trump-win/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/upshot/why-trump-won-working-class-whites.html
Exposing Donald Trump’s Fraudulent GOP Owned Wall Street Journal Claims Against Terry McAuliffe and his donation to the wife of a FBI prosecutor
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~DEBATES
Watch the Three Presidential Debates of 2016 Between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump. See the Fact-Checks and Who Won.
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Watch all of the Republican Presidential Debates in Full, and check out News Articles for each
~Donald Trump (Research Article, a work in progress)
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Directory: The Political Research Database