who won wisconsin in the 2016 presidential election
Donald Trump
title: 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin text: Sanders prevailed in Wisconsin's Democratic primary, while U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz won Wisconsin's Republican primary. In the general election, Republican nominee Donald Trump, a New York businessman, won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 47.2% to 46.5% over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Senator, and First Lady of the United States who also hailed from New York. Wisconsin was the tipping point state of the 2016 election; that is, when the State of Wisconsin was called for Trump, its 10 electoral votes brought Trump's electoral vote total to 270 (the amount needed to win title: 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin text: the election). Trump's victory was attributed to overwhelming and underestimated support from white working-class voters, a demographic group that had previously tended to vote Democrat. Trump was the first Republican candidate to carry the state since Ronald Reagan did so in 1984. Following a statewide recount requested by Jill Stein's campaign, Trump was certified to have won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 1,405,284 votes to Clinton's 1,382,536. The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat and former U.S. Senator from Illinois, was first elected president in the 2008 election, running with former Senator Joe Biden of title: 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin text: and was sponsored by "The Wall Street Journal". Eight candidates including Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, and Rand Paul, participated in the primetime debate that was mostly focused on jobs, taxes, and the general health of the U.S. economy, as well as on domestic and international policy issues. The accompanying undercard debate featured Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and Bobby Jindal who ended his campaign a week after the debate. Wisconsin joined the Union in May 1848 and has participated in all elections from 1848 onwards. Since 1900, Wisconsin has title: 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin text: 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin The 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 general election in which all fifty states and the District of Columbia participated. Wisconsin voters also chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. On April 5, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Wisconsin voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican Parties' respective nominees for president in an open primary; voters were allowed to vote in either party's primary regardless of their own party affiliation. U.S. Sen. Bernie title: 2016 United States presidential election in Wisconsin text: petition for a recount to the state's electoral body, Jill Stein, 2016 presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States, filed for a recount of the election results in Wisconsin. She signaled she intended to file for similar recounts in the subsequent days in the states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. On November 26, the Clinton campaign announced that they were joining the recount effort in Wisconsin. The final result of the recount confirmed Trump's victory in Wisconsin, where he gained a net 131 votes. Trump gained 837 additional votes, while Clinton gained 706 additional votes. 2016 United States