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2016 United States presidential election

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The 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

The incumbent in 2016, Barack Obama. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2017.

Campaign signs of third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, October 2016 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont

A general election ballot, listing the presidential and vice presidential candidates

Trump campaigns in Phoenix, Arizona, October 29, 2016

Clinton campaigns in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 22, 2016

President Barack Obama casting his vote early in Chicago on October 7, 2016

Vote margin swing by state 2012 to 2016. Only twelve states (as well as the District of Columbia and Nebraka's 2nd congressional district) shifted more Democratic. The large swing in Utah is mostly due to the votes for third candidate Evan McMullin and the 2012 candidacy of Utah's Mitt Romney.

Final polling averages for the 2016 election by state. Polls from lightly shaded states are older than September 1, 2016.

Results by state, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Results by vote distribution among states. The size of each state's pie chart is proportional to its number of electoral votes.

Results by county. Red denotes counties that went to Trump; blue denotes counties that went to Clinton.

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

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Results of election by congressional district, shaded by winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Results by county, shaded according to percentage of the vote for Johnson

Results by county, shaded according to percentage of the vote for Jill Stein

Results by state, shaded according to margin of victory

The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the greatest upsets in American history.

Republican Party (United States)

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One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

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U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Its most recent presidential nominee was Donald Trump, who served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Joe Biden

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American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States.

Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware

Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977

Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984

Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994

Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997

Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.

Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007

Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois

Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009

President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden

Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016

Biden with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on November 10, 2016

Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019

Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021

Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021

Biden in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021

Biden, UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021

Biden with Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Oval Office

Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, March 2022

President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012

President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017

Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020

Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022.

Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris defeated incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election.

Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign

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Trump at an early campaign event in New Hampshire on July 16, 2015

Trump signs the Republican loyalty pledge promising to support the candidate nominated by the party and to not run as a third-party candidate, if he failed to clinch the nomination.

Trump and supporters attend a rally in Muscatine, Iowa, in January 2016

Anti-Trump protesters outside arena as Chicago rally is shut down on March 11, 2016

Kellyanne Conway at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2016

Candidate Trump and running mate Mike Pence at the Republican National Convention, July 2016

Trump became the first Republican since the 1980s to win the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Director Peter Navarro addresses President Donald Trump's promises to American people, workers, and domestic manufacturers (Declaring American Economic Independence on June 28, 2016) in the Oval Office with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross before President Trump signs Executive Orders regarding trade in March 2017

Make America Great Again slogan worn by a Trump supporter

Trump speaks at an Arizona rally in March 2016.

Trump delivering a speech in August 2016

Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona

Speaker Paul Ryan meets with Donald Trump and Mike Pence on Capitol Hill after their election victory

Trump, his wife Melania, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Eric Trump, February 1, 2016

Supporters and protesters outside the August 9, 2016, campaign event at UNC-Wilmington's Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, North Carolina

A protester holding a sign toward Trump supporters asking for Trump to publicly release his tax returns, at an August 9, 2016, campaign event in Wilmington, North Carolina

Donald Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009. His tweet activity pattern has changed from 2013.

Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, held informal talks with the President-elect on November 17, 2016.

The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was formally launched on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City.

2020 United States presidential election

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The 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

States and territories with at least one local, state, or federal primary election date or method of voting altered as of August 5, 2020.

A poll worker sanitizes an election booth in Davis, California

Chart of July 2020 opinion survey on likelihood of voting by mail in November election, compared to 2016

President Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her family, just prior to Barrett being announced as the nominee, September 26, 2020

George Floyd protests in Minneapolis on May 26

Hexagonal cartogram of the number of electoral college votes. States with opposite outcomes from 2016 are hatched.

People celebrate in the streets near the White House after the major networks projected Biden the winner of the election on November 7.

Senator Chuck Schumer addresses a crowd celebrating in Times Square, New York City shortly after the election was called for Biden.

Voters cast ballots at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa

Screenshot of a tweet from Trump's Twitter account where he repeatedly and falsely claimed he had won.

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale reported that through June 9, 2021, Trump had issued 132 written statements since leaving office, of which "a third have included lies about the election"—more than any other subject.

Pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6

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Election results by Congressional District

Shaded election results by county (red-purple-blue scale)

The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump and incumbent vice president Mike Pence.

American intelligence agencies concluded that Russian president Vladimir Putin personally ordered the covert operation, code named Project Lakhta, while Putin denied the allegations. At the 2018 Helsinki summit, Putin said that he wanted Trump to win because he talked about normalizing the U.S.–Russia relationship.

Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

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The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies began working for the Russian presidency after 2009.

Initially in 2016 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "I think the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea."

Former site of the Internet Research Agency in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her position as chairperson of the DNC.

John O. Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, in the Oval Office, January 4, 2010

President Obama ordered the United States Intelligence Community to investigate election hacking attempts since 2008.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized the CAATSA sanctions against Russia, targeting EU–Russia energy projects.

Special counsel Robert Mueller directed the FBI from 2001 to 2013.

Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak met with a number of U.S. officials.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions talked with the Russian ambassador during the Trump campaign and recused himself from the investigation.

Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, failed to disclose meetings with Russian officials.

Hillary Clinton said Vladimir Putin held a grudge against her due to her criticism of the 2011 Russian legislative election.

Trump's transition team dismissed the U.S. Intelligence community conclusions.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called American accusations "nonsense".

The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goals of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States.

Presidency of Donald Trump

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The 2016 presidential electoral vote. Five individuals besides Trump and Clinton received electoral votes from faithless electors.

Outgoing President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016

Donald Trump's official portrait before his swearing in ceremony.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her family with Trump on September 26, 2020

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, (orange) the Toronto Star, and CNN (blue) compiled data on "false or misleading claims" and "false claims," respectively. The peaks in late 2018 correspond to the midterm elections, in late 2019 to his impeachment inquiry, and in late 2020 to the presidential election. The Post reported 30,573 false or misleading claims in 4 years, an average of more than 20.9 per day.

Trump talks to the press in the Oval Office on March 21, 2017, before signing S.422 (the NASA Transition Authorization Act)

Trump speaks to reporters on the White House South Lawn in June 2019

During a joint news conference, Trump said he was "very proud" to hear Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro use the term "fake news."

Twitter activity of Donald Trump from his first tweet in May 2009 to September 2017. Retweets are not included.

Trump signed new anti-sex-trafficking legislation on April 16, 2018.

Trump pays tribute to fallen police officers on May 15, 2017

Trump signs the Hurricane Harvey relief bill at Camp David, September8, 2017

Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at the 787-10 Dreamliner rollout ceremony

Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2018

Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew's Catholic School in Orlando, Florida, March3, 2017

April 2017 Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Official portrait of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator

The CBO estimated in May 2017 that the Republican AHCA would reduce the number of people with health insurance by 23 million during 2026, relative to current law.

Drug overdoses killed 70,200 in the United States in 2017.

Trump at the 15th Annual Opioid Takeback Day

Trump receives a briefing on COVID-19 in the White House Situation Room

Trump was hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following his COVID-19 diagnosis on October 3, 2020.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, first day on the job

Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

June 2018 protest against the Trump administration family separation policy, in Chicago, Illinois

Trump signs Executive Order 13769 at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis look on, January 27, 2017.

Trump returns to the White House after posing for a photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church, June 2020

Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and President Donald Trump watch the Crew Dragon Demo-2 Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center

Anti-Trump protest in Greensboro by the anti-fascist groups Democratic Socialists of America and Industrial Workers of the World

Trump and North Korea's Communist Party leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, June 30, 2019

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the welcoming ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley (left) on September 30, 2019. Outgoing chairman General Joseph Dunford (right) and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (center-right) are present.

Trump with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office, November 13, 2019

Trump with Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017

Robert Mueller in the Oval Office c. 2012

Tayyip Erdoğan, then the prime minister of Turkey, attended the opening of the Trump Towers Istanbul AVM in 2012.

Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019

Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump signs an Executive Order promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America on April 25, 2017

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Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021.

President Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Goodyear, Arizona, in October 2020

2021 United States Capitol attack

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Trump tweet shortly after polls had closed

Signs reading "Stop the Steal" and "Off with their heads", taken on the day of the attack

Police officers at the Supreme Court on the morning of January 6

Protesters at Washington Union Station on the morning of January6

An image of Trump delivering his rally speech from behind a bulletproof shield was projected onto this screen at the rally

Protestors approaching the Capital Complex

Members of the Proud Boys in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building

Trump supporters crowding the steps of the Capitol

Officer Daniel Hodges crushed in doorway

Reinforcements guard the Capital after rioters were pushed out of the building

Among the many flags flown by participants were the Gadsden flag, American flag, and Women for Trump

A row of flags lining the Capitol grounds

Rioters outside the Capitol shortly after Congress was evacuated

Trump supporters and police at the Texas State Capitol on January6

New Jersey National Guard Troops deployed inside the Capitol, pictured during the swearing-in on January 12

Interim United States Attorney Michael R. Sherwin holds a press conference on criminal charges related to the events at the Capitol

On January 6, 2021, following then-President Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. They sought to keep Trump in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the electoral college votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

Robert Mueller was appointed in May 2017 as special counsel.

Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)

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Investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials, and possible obstruction of justice by Trump and his associates.

Matthew Whitaker, who served as the Acting Attorney General from November 2018 to February 2019

Manafort speaking to media at the 2016 Republican National Convention

In January 2017, an assessment was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, then headed by Obama appointee James Clapper, which asserted that Russian leadership had favored presidential candidate Donald Trump over rival candidate Hillary Clinton, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Clinton's electoral chances and "undermine public faith in the US democratic process".

Hillary Clinton

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American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of President Bill Clinton.

Mementos of Hillary Rodham's early life, shown at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center

Rodham in Maine South High School's 1965 yearbook

Rodham (center) campaigning for Wellesley College Government President in 1968, an election which she later won

Hillary and Bill lived in this house in Little Rock's Hillcrest neighborhood while he was Arkansas Attorney General (1977–1979).

Bill and Hillary Clinton with President Ronald and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Clinton presenting her health care plan, September 1993

Hillary Clinton speaks about the 1993 health care plan at GWU Hospital.

Read Across America Day in Maryland, 1998

Inauguration Day walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to start Bill's second term as president, January 20, 1997

Results of the 2000 United States Senate election in New York. Clinton won the counties in blue.

Reenactment of Hillary Rodham Clinton's swearing-in as a U.S. senator by Vice President Al Gore in the Old Senate Chamber, as Bill and Chelsea look on

Clinton listens as the chief of naval operations, Admiral Michael Mullen, responds to a question during his 2007 confirmation hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee

Clinton at the 2007 CDA National Convention

Clinton campaigning at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two days before Super Tuesday, 2008

State-by-state popular votes in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, shaded by percentage won: Obama in purple, Clinton in green. (Popular vote winners and delegate winners differed in New Hampshire, Nevada, Missouri, Texas and Guam.)

Clinton speaks on behalf of her former rival, Barack Obama, during the second night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention

Official secretary of state portrait, 2009

Associate Judge Kathryn Oberly of the D.C. Court of Appeals administers the oath of office of secretary of state to Hillary Rodham Clinton as her husband Bill Clinton holds the Bible

Clinton and Obama at the 21st NATO summit, April 2009

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Clinton hold a "reset button", March 2009

Greeting service members at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, October 2010

The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011

Clinton with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi during her December 2011 visit to Myanmar

Clinton, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on Operation Neptune Spear in the White House Situation Room on May 1, 2011. Everyone in the room is watching a live feed from drones operating over the Osama bin Laden complex.

Obama and Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012

Clinton addressing email controversy with the media at the UN Headquarters on March 10, 2015

Clinton campaigning for president in Manchester, New Hampshire, in October 2016, with Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren (seated)

Clinton, accepting Senator Bernie Sanders' endorsement in New Hampshire, July 2016

Clinton delivering her concession speech

The Clintons at Donald Trump's inauguration

Clinton and her husband attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery after the inauguration of Joe Biden

Copies of What Happened at an event on Clinton's book tour promoting the memoir

Clinton worked at Rose Law Firm for fifteen years. Her professional career and political involvement set the stage for public reaction to her as the first lady.

Secretary Clinton meets with Algeria's President Bouteflika, 2012

A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party; Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump.

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