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United States presidential election, 2016 (view source)
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The 58th United States presidential election will be held on November 8, 2016. The 2016 election will be an open field in the [[Republican Party]]. [[Democrats]] will choose between former secretary of state [[Hillary Clinton]] and Vermont senator [[Bernie Sanders]].
The 58th United States presidential election will be held on November 8, 2016. As far as the [[Republican Party]] [[Donald Trump]] is the presumptive nominee. [[Democrats]] will choose between former secretary of state [[Hillary Clinton]] and Vermont senator [[Bernie Sanders]]. Sanders is largely a backup candidate in case Hillary Clinton email scandal and/or Clinton Foundation scandals grow significantly larger.
==Primaries and convention==
[[File:Donald John Trump.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The public's fascination with Donald Trump totally dominated the first half of 2016 more than any candidate of either party. Trump spent virtually nothing on media advertising.]]
===Republican candidates===
A record-breaking total of 17 individuals formally announced their candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. Their first [[2016 presidential debate|debate]] was held on Thursday, August 6th, on the [[Fox News Channel]], and viewed by a record-breaking audience of 24 million people. By February 14, 2016, after numerous debates and subsequent to the [[Iowa caucuses]] and [[New Hampshire primary]], six candidates remained in the race.
By March 15th, half of the delegates were allocated among the candidates, including the key "winner take all" states of [[South Carolina]], [[Florida]] and [[Ohio]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/17/if-donald-trump-wins-south-carolina-can-he-be-stopped/</ref> The remainder of the states holding early primaries allocated their delegates using a proportional scheme, which marginalizes the influence of the state.
To have a candidate's name placed into nomination at the National Convention, the candidate must win a majority of the delegates from at least eight different states.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3402699/posts|title=Rule 40|accessdate=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
With Donald Trump's victory in Indiana, and [[Ted Cruz]] and [[John Kasich]] subsequently suspending their campaign, Trump became the presumptive nominee for the GOP. <ref>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/04/john-kasich-campaign-latest-news.html/</ref>
===Democratic candidates===
[[Democrats]] had to choose between former secretary of state [[Hillary Clinton]], [[Democratic socialism|Democratic Socialist]] Vermont senator [[Bernie Sanders]], and former Maryland Governor [[Martin O'Malley]].
The Clinton dominated [[Democratic National Committee]] showed how un-inclusive it is when it rejected out of hand 42 of 45 Sanders nominees for the 75 member convention rules, platform, and credentials committees. Of the 75 members on the 3 committees (25 each), 72 where staffed with Clinton cronies, and 3 with Sanders supporters, under the party's alleged "proportional allocation" methods based upon primary and caucus results.<ref>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-dnc-rules-committee-222978#ixzz48eixbtTR </ref>
Despite being under investigation by the [[FBI]] for illegal mishandling of classified information during her term as Secretary of State, with the inclusion of [[Superdelegates]] Hillary led the field as the convention approached. The Clinton's have amassed $3 billion over 41 years from political donations. The majority of the money — $2 billion — has gone to the Clinton Foundation.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/</ref> Her campaign has also accumulated $6.9 million from fossil fuel donations.<ref>http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaign-updates/hillary-clintons-connection-oil-gas-industry/</ref> Through the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee, she funneled $60 million in donations through 33 Democratic state parties<ref>http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/how-hillary-clinton-bought-the-loyalty-of-33-state-democratic-parties/</ref>.
Clinton promised to put her husband, former President Bill Clinton, "in charge" of fixing the [[economy]];<ref>http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/NAFTA </ref> according to the [[AFL-CIO]] and the Economic Policy Institute, Bill Clinton along with the Democratic controlled Congress destroyed 700,000 jobs in America with the passage of the [[NAFTA]] agreement.<ref>http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/NAFTA </ref>
==Republican Party candidates==
==Republican Party candidates==