Nobody walked away from the 2016 election in great shape.
Though he pulled off a historic upset, Donald Trump faced the challenge of governing a highly skeptical country where more voters cast ballots for his opponent. Speaking of that opponent, Hillary Clinton hobbled into election day with an unfavorability rating of 55 percent. In the days before Nov. 9, she trailed Trump by a margin of eight percent on the question of who voters believed to be more honest and trustworthy. And on election day, voters who disliked both candidates chose Trump by a wide margin.
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