Clinton's popularity and public image were tarnished by concerns about her ethics and trustworthiness, and a controversy and subsequent FBI investigation regarding her improper use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State, which received more media coverage than any other topic during the campaign. Trump faced controversy over his views on race and immigration, incidents of violence against protestors at his rallies, and numerous sexual misconduct allegations including the Access Hollywood tape. 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. The Republican ticket of 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 just 304 votes to Clinton's 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.

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