The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial presidential election. Republican John Huntsman Jr. defeated Democrat Deval Patrick, then the Governor of Massechusetts. Huntsman, won the election in a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes and percentage of the popular vote ever won by a Republican presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan respectively, and became the 45th President of the United States.
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| - The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial presidential election. Republican John Huntsman Jr. defeated Democrat Deval Patrick, then the Governor of Massechusetts. Huntsman, won the election in a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes and percentage of the popular vote ever won by a Republican presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan respectively, and became the 45th President of the United States.
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| - Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Huntsman/Fortuño, and Blue denotes Patrick/Warner. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state.
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| - The United States presidential election of 2016 was the 58th quadrennial presidential election. Republican John Huntsman Jr. defeated Democrat Deval Patrick, then the Governor of Massechusetts. Huntsman, won the election in a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes and percentage of the popular vote ever won by a Republican presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan respectively, and became the 45th President of the United States. Patrick, after defeating Andrew Cumo and Mark Warner for the Democratic nomination, attacked Huntsman as a . For his part, Huntsman, the former Governor of Utah and US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, acted as a force for national unity, and won a decisive victory; in the simultaneous Congressional elections, Republicans won control of the United States Senate for the first time in 10 years, and took back Control of the House of Representatives. This election marked the beginning of what is popularly called the "Hutnsman Revolution."
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