The United States presidential election for the year 2016, scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2016, will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn elects a new president and vice president through the Electoral College. The term limit recognized in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the incumbent President, Barack Obama, of the Democratic Party, from being elected to a third term.
The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses have been taking place between February 1 and June 14, 2016, staggered among the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. This nomination process is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee. The 2016 Republican National Convention is set to take place from July 18 to July 21, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio and 2016 Democratic National Convention will take place from July 25 to July 28, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Businessman and reality television celebrity Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party on May 3, 2016, after the suspensions of Ted Cruz and John Kasich's campaigns and his win in the Indiana primary. He is expected to face the nominees of the Democratic Party in the general election, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
In every state except Maine and Nebraska, the victor of the popular vote in the state wins all of the electoral votes of the state. Maine and Nebraska use the "congressional district method", in which the winner of the state gets two electoral votes and candidates receive additional electoral votes for each congressional district that they win. Recent presidential campaigns have generally focused their resources on a relatively small number of competitive states.
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