By Daniel Jones, editor
Donald Trump was named president-elect of the United States of America on November 9 after one of the closest elections in decades.
Votes were tallied into the early hours of the morning following Election Day on November 8, which left Republican nominee Trump triumphant with 289 electoral votes to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s 218, with the states of Minnesota, Michigan, and New Hampshire still undecided.
The election was so stunning because every major poll placed Clinton as the eventual nominee in a landslide, which was never to materialize, even though at the time of this article’s creation she was ahead in the popular vote 59,333,856 votes, or 47.7 percent, to Trump’s 59,166,034, or 47.5 percent.