With results from most states declared, the final picture of the 2016 United States Presidential Elections seems to have been cast: Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s candidate, has been elected president of the United States.
Latest results from the polls indicate that Donald Trump, the self-confident billionaire businessman whose campaign has been anything but conventional, has surpassed the threshold he had to beat in order to win the elections.
In order to emerge winner, a presidential candidate must secure at least 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes, which represent electoral districts from across the United States. As at the time of this report, Trump had taken 276 Electoral College votes; Clinton has only managed to get 218 Electoral College votes.
In actual terms, the race was much closer- but again, Trump beat off the challenge from his Democrat rival, with Trump securing over 48 percent of total votes as against Clinton’s 47.
Analysts have already begun to pour over the data, asking questions about how the pollsters, who had initially projected a Clinton victory, got it all wrong. But for the Republican Party and for Donald Trump, the once dim dream of taking over the White House has become a reality.
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