On Nov. 8, 2016, what some considered to be a seemingly impossible event took place. A Republican businessman and former reality television star who had never run for public office or ever had engaged in government work, defeated the Democratic candidate, the first woman ever to have run for president in the general election.His victory came despite polls which had predicted the country’s former first lady — as well as U.S. senator and secretary of state — as the winner by a sizable margin.He did so …