So now we impose an arbitrary double standard ? Clinton ' s being a political official and Trump ' s being a private citizen is irrelevant , because corruption is corruption . Now , if Trump hadn ' t run for political office you could , perhaps , make the argument that Clinton ' s corruption is more important than Trump because Clinton was running for political office and Trump wasn ' t , but Trump did run for office . And thus Trump ' s corrupt behavior regardless of whether or not he held public office is just as important as Clinton ' s for the exact same reason that it would be troubling with Clinton because the fear of corruption is that those who are corrupt will use higher office to expand their own selfinterests and agendas . Hillary Clinton has way more power than Trump has , and her scandals are most certainly worse than Trump hiring foreign workers or immoral ways to make money like Trump University . Sorry , but no . Attempting to bribe an AG , setting up a scam university , a fake charity for gain , and gaming the political system and political officials for self interests is just as bad . I think you ' re forgetting that there were significantly less people that went out and voted for Hillary compared to Obama . This screams that they didn ' t care enough to vote for someone plagued with corruption . Again , do you have any actual statistical evidence to support that , or are you just depending on blind supposition ? Because litterally all you are doing is connecting disparate dots without showing the statics necessary to imply causation . Many Obama supporters had a lot of reasons to not be as in favor of Hillary as they would the other candidate . Consider , for example , that Hillary barely spent any time campaigning in the Rust Belt states because she thought they would be so in the bag , while Donald spent a sizable amount of time campaigning there . You are taking a hugely multifaceted issue and trying to reduce it down to some nonexistent central cause , because it is a multifaceted issue caused by a lot of other factors . Also , factor in the polls after the FBI investigation reopened . Considering Hillary also blamed James Comey for her loss , Hillary most definitely lost because of her corruption . And this has nothing to do with corruption . You are conflating corruption with crime . The reopening of the email investigation had nothing to do with accusations of corruption , but returning to seeing if she was guilty of criminal negligence with the emails . And , by the way , she was yet again cleared by the investigation . So if anything , the Comey investigation would be Clinton losing because people thought that she was guilty of a criminal act despite the evidence , not because of corruption . If anything , Trump lost a net amount of voters with his views on abortion , especially when he said he wants to overturn Roe v WadeHardly . Because Republicans have been running on overturning Roe v Wade for a while now . For example , Romney and Mccain in 2012 and 2008 . In what world does having a position that aligns with the official position of your party cost you votes ? It doesn ' t . And again , you are basing your argument on pure supposition . You don ' t consider the multifaceted aspect of these issues . For example if Trump had shifted to support abortion what evidence is there that he would have had a net gain in voters ? The answer is absolutely none , and a basic thought experiment shows why rather easily it ignores that Roe v Wade may have been a critical issue for Trump supporters given his ideas on free trade which Republicans are normally in favor of , which would have resulted in him losing those voters to more economically concerned Republicans it ignores that many of Trump ' s opponents didn ' t just dislike him because of his position in abortion , and that his position on abortion was one of many things that they disliked about him or , in short , that abortion was less of a central issue in convincing people to support Hillary over Trump than it was in convincing people to vote Trump over Hillary , etc .