The tone of the general election campaign was widely characterized as divisive, negative, and troubling. Clinton emphasized her extensive political experience, denounced Trump and many of his supporters as a ' basket of deplorables', bigots and extremists, and advocated the expansion of president Barack Obama's policies racial, LGBT, and women's rights and inclusive capitalism. Trump's right-wing populist, nationalist campaign, which promised to ' Make America Great Again' and opposed political correctness, illegal immigration, and many United States free-trade agreements garnered extensive free media coverage due to Trump's inflammatory comments. senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, governors John Kasich and Jeb Bush, among other candidates. Trump emerged as his party's front-runner amidst a wide field of candidates in the Republican primary, defeating U.S. senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and became the first female presidential nominee of a major American political party. Incumbent Democratic president Barack Obama was ineligible to pursue a third term due to the term limits established by the Twenty-second Amendment to the US Constitution. It was also the sixth presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1920, 1940, and 1944. The Republican ticket, businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state and First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton and the junior senator from Virginia, Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the biggest political upsets in American history. The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Russia investigation origins counter-narrative.However, because of seven faithless electors (five Democratic and two Republican), Trump received 304 votes and Clinton 227. On election night, Trump won 306 electors and Clinton 232. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia. Red denotes states won by Trump/Pence and blue denotes those won by Clinton/Kaine. See all races on our Senate map.Presidential election results map.

View other Pennsylvania election results on our full Pennsylvania results page. Toomey revealed that he had done so.īelow are detailed results for the race. On Tuesday, an hour before the polls closed, Mr. Trump and repeatedly ducked questions about whether he would vote for him. Toomey could survive “the Trump drag,” said Jennifer Duffy, a nonpartisan analyst for The Cook Political Report. McGinty went into Election Day with a slight edge as the race tested whether Mr. Toomey of conflict of interest, holding stock in a bank of which he had been a founder while fighting new banking regulations.īut Ms. McGinty of using political ties to funnel business to a company where her husband worked as a consultant. With control of the Senate at stake, money poured in from outside groups, and spending topped $118 million, the Center for Responsive Politics reported.Įach side attacked the other on ethics Republicans accused Ms. Tom Wolf and a onetime environmental adviser to President Bill Clinton, cast herself as a pro-business environmentalist and ran on a traditional Democratic platform, supporting abortion rights and an increased minimum wage. Toomey, 54, who once ran the free-market advocacy group Club for Growth, pitched himself to voters as a bipartisan deal maker, highlighting his effort to close loopholes in criminal background checks for gun buyers after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The race was the most expensive Senate contest in the nation. Toomey’s victory in this battleground state was a relief to Republicans who had feared he might become a casualty of the Trump campaign. Trump, won his bid for re-election on Tuesday, in a blow for Democrats who had hoped to put Katie McGinty in office as Pennsylvania’s first female senator. Toomey, a first-term Republican and staunch fiscal conservative who struggled to distance himself from Donald J.

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