About The Election
The United States Presidential election was held on Tuesday November 8, 2016. The Nominee was Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.Donald Trump is a Republican and Hillary Clinton is a Democratic. There home State is both from New York. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote she got 64,818,930 and her percentage is 48.0% and Donald Trump's popular vote was 62,513,667 and his percentage is 46.3%. If I were old enough to vote I would vote for Hillary Clinton. By early morning November 9, 2016, initial vote counts indicated that Trump was projected to obtain over 270 electoral votes, a majority of the 538 electors in the electoral college required to make him the president-election of the United States. In contempt of the popular vote by more than two million votes, 1.7% of all votes cast, Clinton is projected to lose the Electoral College by 74 votes, with 30 states and Maine's second congressional district going to Trump, and 20 states and the district Colombia going to Clinton. Donald Trump admitted the economy wasn't something he looked forward to tackling. In a January interview with "Good Morning America," he offered up a bleak assessment and added that, in terms of fixing it, it's a task he'd rather skip. Donald Trump is planning to Begin working on an impenetrable physical wall on the southern border Mexico will pay for the wall. Under a Trump administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country. Even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote and Donald Trump won in electoral landslide. An Electoral landslide and the American people agreed that Donald Trump’s vision for America is what this country has been waiting for. The Electoral College works by Voters casting ballots for candidates, but it is electors from each state who actually elect the president. That’s the way its always been in the United States. The states are assigned a number of electors based on population. The total number of electors is 538, with each state being assigned electors based on population. Some Democrats want to scrap the Electoral College, but some Republicans have also backed election through popular vote.