On November 8, 2016, the United States of America received its 45th president in turn. It is a person who represents one of the most important people both within the country and the world because the state has a presidential political system, which means that in addition to the presidential function, the state has executive power. Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton joined the presidential seat. In recent decades, we have seen the increasing role of the media in the election campaign. We live in an era where the media, through various channels, provide us with information every day and inform us about the latest events, deliver messages from candidates, and present us their goals and the personality of the candidate. The aim of this graduation thesis is to examine television debates or confrontation and the importance of the pre-election confrontations to the final decision through the empirical part. Through an analysis of the three television debates of the two candidates, held on September 26, October 10, and October 20, 2016, we found that pre-election confrontations have a very small or even no direct impact on the final outcome of the election, as Hillary Clinton had more support than her protagonist Donald Trump, judging by public media research during the pre-election period, but eventually failed to win. In addition, we found that televised confrontations of the 45th US presidential elections covered topics that also relate to areas beyond responsability, and that Clinton's publicly-favored Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016 did not bring victory to the US.
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