2016 United States presidential election

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, and Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, defeated the Democratic ticket of Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state and First Lady, and Tim Kaine, the junior U.S. senator from Virginia.