--- title: Donald Trump Voting Guide: Here's His Biography description: Donald Trump chose to highlight some other parts of his life story in the Washington state voters' guide. canonical: https://time.com/4531408/donald-trump-voters-guide/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-14T15:13:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:28.480Z article:section: Politics og:title: Here's What Trump Highlighted in His Voter's Guide Biography og:description: The Art of the Deal, Twitter and Trump Tower og:url: https://time.com/4531408/donald-trump-voters-guide/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Trump Highlighted in His Voter's Guide Biography twitter:description: The Art of the Deal, Twitter and Trump Tower twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's What Donald Trump Highlighted in His Voter's Guide Biography by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Oct 14, 2016 3:13 PM UTC by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Oct 14, 2016 3:13 PM UTC As a first-time candidate for elected office, [Donald Trump ](http://time.com/4531110/donald-trumps-latest-conspiracy-theory/)faces a tricky problem when it comes to a routine part of the election: the voters’ guide biography. Twenty states mail voter guides featuring candidate statements and other ballot information to registered voters, according to [research from Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Features%5Fof%5Fofficial%5Fvoter%5Fguides,%5Fcompared%5Fby%5Fstate), a website run by the nonpartisan Lucy Burns Institute. Because he does not have the typical political experience that a candidate would mention in the campaign statement section, Trump chose to highlight some other parts of his life story in [the Washington state voters’ guide](https://weiapplets.sos.wa.gov/MyVoteOLVR/OnlineVotersGuide?language=en&electionId=63&countyCode=xx&Group=Federal): • Writing _The Art of the Deal_ and 14 other bestsellers • Winning “a record number of votes” in the Republican primary • Having “over 20 million followers” on social media • Devoting “much of his time to media interviews” on law enforcement, immigration and jobs • Serving as grand marshal of the 1996 New York City Veterans Day Parade • Owning the Trump Tower and 18 “award-winning golf courses” Read the full statement below: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4531408/donald-trump-voters-guide/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4531408/donald-trump-voters-guide/"},"headline":"Here's What Donald Trump Highlighted in His Voter's Guide Biography","datePublished":"2016-10-14T15:13:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:28.480Z","description":"The Art of the Deal, Twitter and Trump Tower","url":"https://time.com/4531408/donald-trump-voters-guide/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election","Voting","Washington"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4531408/donald-trump-voters-guide/","name":"Here's What Donald Trump Highlighted in His Voter's Guide Biography"}}]}] ```