2016 Presidential Campaign

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The 2016 American presidential elections marked one of the biggest upsets in American political history with Hillary Clinton set ahead by the polls with the highest possibility to take an early win against Donald Trump’s hilarious state. These elections were met with major criticism among the popular Democrats and the minor Republicans.  Different security bodies have examined that the two presidential contestants used illegal strategies to establish their political bid. Widespread speculations have emerged regarding the accusations of electoral rigidity and poll errors, also suggesting that electoral campaigns were highly and confidentially influenced by strong political forces from outside. Justifications of the general issues of electoral abnormality have been undermined since the announcement of Donald Trump as the American president. Different perceptions about the 2016 campaigns have reasoned that the 2016 presidential campaigns bypassed all political norms. The importance of this study is to highlight and examine different dynamics that led to the unusual predictions and the uncertainty of outcomes, analyzing the validity of various factors that played a major role during and after the presidential campaigns. Medial has been categorized as the biggest influential strategy used, although with state-funded media outlets along with Donald trump setting the pace on his social media techniques to move masses onto his own advantage. Speculations have thereof linked Donald Trump into the infiltration of electoral computer systems making the biggest lead in the last two weeks before the elections, posing the importance of the questions in our study; Did Donald Trump ridge the elections? If so, how? Was the 2016 elections under the influence? Why was Trump’s win a shock? Finally, cognitive analysis of this study bases the 2016 American elections as an influence of cause from political economy and social contracts that undermine democratic politics.

Cited works

Oc, Burak, Celia Moore, and Michael R. Bashshur. “When the tables are turned: The effects of the 2016 US Presidential election on in-group favoritism and out-group hostility.” PloS one 13.5 (2018).

Abrajano, Marisa, and Zoltan L. Hajnal. White backlash: Immigration, race, and American politics. Princeton University Press, 2017.