United States Presidential Election -2016
Voters will select presidential electors, who in turn will vote for a new president and vice president through the Electoral College. The term limit established in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the incumbent president, Barack Obama of the Democratic Party, from being elected to a third term. The 2016 election will determine the 45th President and 48th Vice President of the United States.
The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses took place between February and June 2016, staggered among the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. This nominating process was also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who in turn elect their party's presidential nominee. Businessman and reality television personality Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presidential nominee on July 19, 2016, after defeating Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Ohio Governor John Kasich, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and other candidates in the Republican primary elections. If elected, Trump would become the oldest president to take office . Donald J Trump is a Business Man with no prior political or Government office experience . His style is unconventional and lack proper tempermanent. Trump could be Provoked easily by a tweet and keep changing his opinion frequently. Some of his Key highlight are building a Wall along the Mexican border , ban Muslim from entering the US , Make NATO countries to Pay US for the Service US military provides to them , praises Putin frequently , did not disclose his tax return details and says not paying Tax Mean he is SMART .
Former Secretary of State and New York Senator Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee on July 26, 2016, after defeating Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Clinton is the first female presidential candidate nominated by a major political party.
Various third party and independent presidential candidates are also running in the election. Two are on the ballot in enough states to mathematically win the electoral college: Libertarian Party nominee and former Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson; and Green Party nominee, Jill Stein; both of whom have appeared in major national polls. Johnson and Stein also ran as their parties' presidential nominees in the 2012 election. Two other third party candidates are legally viable for the presidency with write-in access: Constitution Party candidate Darrell Castle and independent candidate Evan McMullin. Castle is a lawyer and former Constitution Party VP candidate, while McMullin is the former chief policy director for the House Republican Conference in the U.S. House of Representatives and a former CIA operations officer.
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