Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election
America has spoken and Donald J. Trump has won the 2024 presidential election – marking a personal, political and historic comeback for both he and his Republican party. Trump’s resounding victory claims wins in both the popular vote and the electoral college. It’s notable that Republican presidents haven’t won the popular vote for the last 20 years’ worth of presidential elections.
Trump will now become the 47th president of the U.S., defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in what was not the close race that all the polls previously showed.
Trump’s win is notable for several reasons. Despite facing numerous legal challenges, including felony convictions and life-long Republicans and former staffers campaigning for his opposition – he not only galvanized his base but flipped the populace in counties and entire states across the country who believed in his campaign issues and promised policies – mostly surrounding immigration and the economy.
Trump’s victory became all-but-certain when the former president was the projected winner of the battleground state of Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes. It’s a state that Democrats had only lost once since 1988. That came in 2016 with Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. ~ USA Today
The election results also saw Republicans gaining control of the Senate, which will likely aid Trump in implementing his policy agenda. As of this writing, the House is still up for grabs, with Republicans currently in the lead with 197 seats over the Democrats’ 188 seats. Whichever party wins 218 seats will ultimately control the House.
Kamala Harris is expected to address the nation sometime today.
As Trump prepares to retake office, the nation watches closely to see how his administration will fulfill his many campaign promises, promises that include but are not limited to:
- Carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history
- Build a border wall
- End birthright citizenship
- Shift parts of federal law enforcement to assist with immigration enforcement
- Suspend refugee resettlement
- Terminate the Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One app
- Revoke the Temporary Protected Status of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio
- Add a tariff of 10% to 20% to all nondomestic goods sold in America
- Add a 60% tariff on goods from China
- Institute a reciprocal tariff policy
- Ban U.S. companies from investing in Chinese companies, and ban Chinese companies from investing in U.S. companies
- Adopt a four-year plan to phase out Chinese imports
- Provide a “middle class, upper class, lower class, business class, big tax cut.”
- End taxation on Social Security
- End taxation on tips
- End taxation on overtime
- Reduce the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% “for companies that make their products in America”
- Cut car insurance rates by 50%
- Make interest on car loans tax deductible
- Make it tax deductible to purchase a home generator
- Stop China from buying land in the U.S.
- Create “freedom cities”
- Oppose corporate bailouts
- End the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours
- Target Chinese ownership of U.S. vital infrastructure
- Hold China financially responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic
- Partner with businesses and universities to help them protect against Chinese surveillance and cyber-attacks
- Construct an Iron Dome-like missile defense system for the U.S.
- Provide record-breaking military funding
- Withdraw from the World Health Organization
- Leave Social Security and Medicare unchanged
- Keep the Social Security retirement age unchanged
- Either have the government pay for or require insurers to pay for in vitro fertilization treatment
- Give a tax credit for family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one
- Create a presidential task force to investigate the rise in chronic health problems, including autism, autoimmune disorders and obesity
- Ban urban camping and arrest violators
- Create “tent cities” where the homeless can be moved
- End veteran homelessness
- Abolish the Education Department
- Make school principals a directly elected position
- Create a new credentialing body for teachers
- Abolish teacher tenure for grades K-12
- Won’t give federal dollars to schools that have a vaccine mandate
- Enable prayer and other religious activities in public schools.
- Order the Justice Department to open investigations into any school that participates in race-based discrimination
- Stop funding colleges that engage in “censorship”
- Offer more low-cost postsecondary degree options
- Increase funding for schools with job and career counselors
- Create a competition for high school athletes called “the patriot games”
- Seek the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers
- Impose the death penalty for selling drugs
- Encourage stop-and-frisk policing
- Increase punishments for juvenile offenders
- Increase liability protections for police officers
- Invest record amounts in American police
- Expand concealed carry rights
- Overturn Biden policies affecting gun owners and manufacturers
- Investigate federal arrests of conservatives and Christians
- Commute the sentence of “Silk Road” website operator Ross Ulbricht
- Require proof of citizenship at the polls
- Require voter ID at the polls
- Require only paper ballots
- Count all votes on election night
- Sign legislation recognizing only two genders, assigned at birth
- Sign legislation banning trans women from participating in women’s sports
- Reinstate the transgender ban in the military
- Make it a felony for any medical professional to perform surgery on a minor without parental consent
- Have the Justice Department investigate pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to see if they have been hiding the negative impacts of gender reassignment surgery
- Sign legislation outlawing gender-related surgery for minors
- Promote the nuclear family and traditional gender roles in public schools
- End federal programs that “promote the concept of sex and gender transition”
- Mandate that any child identity changes have parental consent
- Empower the president to remove “rogue bureaucrats”
- Establish a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to investigate the “deep state”
- Require federal employees to pass a civil service test.
- Cut the federal government’s budget every year
- Create a “government efficiency commisson” that will “eliminate fraud and improper payments”
- Challenge limits on the president’s ability to cut federal spending
- Revoke federal initiatives on diversity, equity and inclusion
- Create a restitution fund for people who have been harmed by diversity, equity and inclusion policies
- Ban any federal department from restricting free speech
- Establish an auditing system to make sure agencies aren’t spying on citizens
- Have the federal government take over the management of Washington, D.C.
- Ban federal workers from taking jobs at companies they regulated
- Institute a seven-year “cooling off period” for employees of national security agencies before they can get a job in which they handle Americans’ data
- Crack down on government officials who leak
- Cut off federal funding for NPR
- Leave the Paris climate accord (again)
- Eliminate “mandates” for electric cars
- Approve liquefied natural gas terminals in one day
- Issue an executive order ending offshore wind energy development
- Make American energy the cheapest in the world
- Lower energy costs within the first year by 50%
- Fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve “immediately”
- Modernize and build new electric grid systems
- Sign a bill revisiting Section 230 for tech platforms
- Let adults opt out of content moderation on social media platforms
- Require court orders to take down online content
- Require social media platforms to have an appeals process when accounts are banned
- Require social media platforms to increase enforcement of child exploitation and terrorism posts
- Promote research and development for vertical-takeoff flying cars
- Establish a “beautification campaign” to improve the appearance of American cities
- Sign an order to construct the National Garden of American Heroes
- Create a “great American state fair”
For more on Trump’s historic victory and return to the White House, see the video accompanying this article
–
Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today
Follow Richard on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram
