Why and How Donald Trump Won the 2016 Presidential Election

Donald Trump during his election campaign

Artwork © Ujjal Peter D'Costa (Nov. 16, 2016)

Until the election day on November 8, Donald Trump was complaining of rigged election, thinking that his opponent Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton would win.  Now he has won. Can it be logically said that Donald Trump won the election through the same "rigged system?" Why is he now keeping mum about the rigged election? What an irony!

There is a saying that promises are made to be broken. Donald Trump made so many promises, sometimes weird promises, that he would not be able to fulfill them. 

Any way, let us see why and how Donald Trump won the rancorous 2016 election. Click on the items below to know the details.

• How Donald Trump Won the 2016 election: The insiders tell their story (Nov. 9, 2016)
• How Trump won: The revenge of working-class whites (Nov. 9, 2016)
• How did Trump win? Here are 24 theories (Nov. 10, 2016)
• OPINION: Sutter: Millennials did not elect Trump (Nov. 10, 2016)
• Muslim immigrant woman: I voted Trump (Nov. 11, 2016)
• Spare me the euphemisms. White people made Trump President (Nov.    , 2016) 
• How Donald Trump courted White Americans to victory (Nov. 9, 2016)
• Why did Trump win? Because Democrats stayed home (Nov. 11, 2016)
• 7 Reasons Donald Trump Won the Presidential Election (Nov. 12, 2016)
• Why I voted for Donald Trump (Nov. 13, 2016)
• "We are called redneck, ignorant, racist. That's not true": Trump supporters explain why they voted for him (Nov. 13, 2016)
• Trump's Triumph Powered by Religious Voters (Nov. 9, 2016)
• Trump elected President, Thanks to 4 in 5 White Evangelicals (Nov. 9, 2016) 
• White evangelicals just elected a thrice-married blasphemer: What that means for the religious right (Nov. 10, 2016) 
• US election: Why did evangelicals vote for Donald Trump? (Nov. 16, 2016)
• OPINION: Where Donald Trump got his real power (Nov. 15, 2016) 
• The painfully obvious reason Christians voted for Trump (that liberals just don't understand) (Nov. 14, 2016)
• How the faithful voted: A preliminary 2016 analysis (Nov. 9, 2016)
•  Why did Trump win? Because Democrats stayed home (Nov. 11, 2016)
• Inside the Clinton loss: Who's to blame? (Nov. 11, 2016)
• One-third of Clinton supporters say Trump election is not legitimate, poll finds (Nov. 13, 2016)
• A third of Hillary Clinton supporters Do Not Believe Donald Trump's victory was legitimate, new poll finds (Nov. 13, 2013)