Donald Trump was a presidential candidate in the 2016 election.
Donald Trump . In June 2015 , he launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election and quickly emerged as the front-runner among seventeen candidates in the Republican primaries . His remaining opponents all suspended their campaigns by the end of May 2016 , and in July he was formally nominated at the Republican National Convention along with Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate . On October 7 , 2016 , during the 2016 United States presidential election , The Washington Post released a video and accompanying article about then presidential candidate Donald Trump and television host Billy Bush having `` an extremely lewd conversation about women '' in 2005 .