Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign

Hillary for America
Clinton Kaine
Campaign2016 Democratic primaries
2016 U.S. presidential election
Candidate
AffiliationDemocratic Party
Status
  • Announced: April 12, 2015
  • Official launch: June 13, 2015
  • Presumptive nominee: June 6, 2016
  • Official nominee: July 26, 2016
  • Lost election: November 8, 2016
Headquarters
Key people
ReceiptsUS$585,699,061.27[4] (December 31, 2016)
Slogan
  • Stronger Together
  • I'm With Her
  • Fighting for us
  • Love trumps hate
Theme song
Website
hillaryclinton.com

Hillary Clinton is an American politician from the state of New York who was the Democratic Party's 2016 nominee for president of the United States. Clinton is the first woman in U.S. history to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party. She was defeated in the 2016 general election by Republican Donald Trump.

The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton was announced in a YouTube video on April 12, 2015.[5] Clinton was the 67th United States Secretary of State and served during the first term of the Obama administration, from 2009 to 2013. She was previously a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and is the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Clinton's main competitor in the 2016 Democratic primary election was Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. She received the most support from middle aged and older voters, as well as from African-American, Latino and older female voters. She focused her platform on several issues, including expanding racial, LGBT, and women's rights, raising wages and ensuring equal pay for women, and improving healthcare. The Associated Press declared Clinton the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party after she reached the required number of delegates (including both pledged delegates and superdelegates) on June 6, 2016.[6] Clinton announced that U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia would be her vice presidential running mate on July 22.[7] Clinton and Kaine were nominated at the 2016 Democratic National Convention on July 26.[8]

Clinton lost the general election to Republican Donald Trump on November 9, 2016.[9][10] Clinton's narrow losses in the blue wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were considered key to her defeat.

  1. ^ Debenedetti, Gabriel; Karni, Annie (April 3, 2015). "Hillary Clinton's Brooklyn". Politico. Archived from the original on December 2, 2015. Clinton's staffers... setting up... at 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights.
  2. ^ Keith, Tamara (May 15, 2015). "The 13 Questions Hillary Clinton Has Answered From The Press". It's All Politics. NPR. Archived from the original on December 14, 2015.
  3. ^ Chozick, Amy; Martin, Jonathan (September 3, 2016). "Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich". The New York Times. The campaign's finance team is led by Dennis Cheng, previously the chief fund-raiser for the Clinton Foundation, and it employs a couple dozen staff members. Mr. Cheng, who attends the events with Mrs. Clinton, offers donors a number of contribution options that provide them and their families varying levels of access to Mrs. Clinton.
  4. ^ "Committee/Candidate Details" (Hillary for America (C00575795)). Federal Election Commission. December 31, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  5. ^ Clinton, Hillary (April 12, 2015). Getting Started – via YouTube.
  6. ^ "AP count: Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination". Associated Press. June 6, 2016. Archived from the original on May 1, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  7. ^ Chozick, Amy; Rappaport, Alan; Martin, Jonathan (July 23, 2016). "Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine, a Popular Senator From a Swing State, as Running Mate". The New York Times.
  8. ^ McCaskill, Nolan D. (July 26, 2016). "Hillary Clinton breaks the glass ceiling". Politico.
  9. ^ "Hillary Clinton concedes". CNN. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  10. ^ "2016 Election: Donald Trump Wins the White House in Upset". NBC News. November 9, 2016.

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