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Seventeen major candidates were listed in major independent nationwide polls and filed as candidates with the Federal Election Commission. [citation needed] A total of 2,472 delegates attended the 2016 Republican National Convention, and the winning candidate needed a simple majority of 1,237 votes to become the Republican nominee.
Governor of Massachusetts 2003–07; presidential candidate in 2008; presidential nominee in 2012 [101] Paul Ryan U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 1999–2019, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives 2015–19, vice presidential nominee in 2012 [ 102 ]
Trump was formally nominated by the delegates of the 2016 Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016, and proceeded to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general election on November 8, 2016, to become the 45th President of the United States.
The party began a formal roll-call vote to put Trump's name in nomination one day after opponents staged a failed attempt to force a vote opposing him. Trump officially wins the Republican ...
Trump was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, having won the most state primaries, caucuses, and delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. [19] He chose Mike Pence , the sitting governor of Indiana , as his vice presidential running mate.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina dropped out of the 2016 White House race on Wednesday.
Trump took 30 states as the Republican candidate, while Hillary Clinton sealed 20. ... Click through to see how every state voted in the 2016 election: ... where voters selected Hillary Clinton as ...
[111] [112] Trump won the presidential nomination on July 19, 2016 [113] on the first ballot with 69.8% of the delegates, the lowest percentage of delegates won by the Republican nominee since the 1976 Republican National Convention. [114] The vice presidential nomination was held immediately after the presidential nomination.