HRC lost this election because five rust belt states were lost to Trump , Wisconsin , Michigan , Ohio , Pennsylvania and Indiana . She lost three of those states with a 5050 % split , with Bernie voters going Green that lost it for her . Whilst in the other states black voters who came out for Obama didnt bother for HRC . Finally millions sat on their ass , black and white , mainly young . Trump on the other hand polled less then Romney . Trump won by fucking default . The democrats in their hubris thought by matching HRC with the worst republican candidate ever that this would be enough to get HRC over the line . Truth be told she wasted hundreds of millions of advertising spend on states she had already won whilst she didnt even bother campaigning in the rust belt states . She didnt even bother going to Wisconsin , the first democrat in 50 years . She robbed state democratic parties coffers , with her Victory fund money laundering scheme which explains why the democrats lost a heap of congressional and senate contests not to mention she was a weal candidate . Lastly she had broken the law with email stuff , used the clinton foundation to sell arms and favour ' s to foreign governments . Seriously , any republican could have won this election , hence why literally the most fucked person ever to run for the job got it .