Donald Trump Wins US Presidential Election: What to Expect
Donald Trump has won the US presidential election, according to projections of the results. These are unofficial results – the winner will be officially announced in a few days, but this is just a formality.
By the morning of November 6, Trump had collected more than 270 electoral votes and will become the US president for the second time – the 47th. True, he was previously the 45th, meaning that these two terms were not consecutive. This is rare, but it happens, so Trump is not the first.
A similar precedent was set almost 150 years earlier by the 22nd and 24th US President Grover Cleveland (he led the country from 1885 to 1889, and then from 1893 to 1897). But Trump still managed to set a record - he is the oldest elected US President (he is 78 years old).
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After all the legal formalities, Trump will take office in January 2025, although he is already accepting congratulations on his victory. Most European leaders have sent them to him, including Zelensky (Putin said he would refrain from congratulating him for now), the Prime Minister of Israel and other politicians. Let's see what he promised before the elections and what we can expect from him. By the way, he has a very good chance of making all his promises come true, because after these elections, the Republicans will definitely control the Senate. The fate of the House of Representatives is still unclear, but the Republicans have very good results there too.
Meanwhile, the president-elect has already delivered his victory speech, calling his supporters "an unprecedented and unprecedented political movement" and the victory "historic." He noted that "America's golden age" was now beginning.
Election promises
During the election campaign, a candidate usually identifies a top topic that will best play on voters' emotions. Of the basic emotions that are most effective to play on, Trump chose fear. His top topic is the threat posed by "scary migrants." According to Trump, They even eat cats : )
Migrants. The president-elect promises to launch the largest deportation campaign in US history (By the way, it will cost a pretty penny), during which some 13 million migrants could be expelled from the country. He is seeking to restore his 2019 “Remain in Mexico” program, which required asylum seekers at the U.S. border to wait in Mexico while their cases were processed.
Trump has vowed to detain any migrants caught entering the United States without authorization or violating other immigration laws. He said he would impose entry bans on people from Gaza, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and “anywhere else that threatens our security.”
Trump also threatened to ban communists, Marxists, and socialists from entering the United States, stop issuing birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, and end the DACA program (which gives the right to remain in the United States to illegal immigrants who were brought into the country as children).
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Crime. Trump has promised voters a tougher approach to eradicating crime, including moving homeless camps outside cities, giving police more powers, using the military to crack down on drug dealers, and imposing the death penalty on convicted drug dealers.
Trump plans to provide record funding for police recruitment and training, increase protections for police officers and toughen penalties for assaults on law enforcement officers. He promises to deploy federal prosecutors and the National Guard to high-crime areas.
Economy. Here, Trump acted like any Republican. He promised “lower taxes, higher wages, and more jobs for Americans.” One way to achieve this, according to the president-elect, is to impose a tariff on all imports, which would “reward domestic production” and tax foreign companies. It sounds like a good idea, but serious economists say it’s a bad idea.
Let's say Trump is going to start a new trade war with China and Europe. If in his first term he imposed a 25% tariff on all Chinese goods and raised a number of tariffs on European goods, now he promises to raise the tariff to 60%, to limit the import of cars and other goods into the United States, manufactured in Chinese factories and in neighboring Mexico.
Trump is also threatening import tariffs on Europe, as well as on American companies that move production overseas and on countries that do not want to use the dollar in international transactions. Economists say that Americans will end up paying for these changes out of their own pockets due to the inevitable rise in prices for goods.
Trump is offering tax breaks for big businesses and the wealthy to spur investment. He has said his tax cuts will boost the economy to 3% growth, something he failed to achieve as the 45th president.
Donald Trump made a bow to service workers by proposing not to tax tips and pensions, and also promised not to tax overtime wages.
Budget and prices. Trump intends to cut funding for “waste, fraud, and abuse,” including programs related to foreign aid, immigration, climate change, and LGBTQ rights.
At the same time, he promised to reduce the cost of prescription drugs and health insurance premiums.
Energy. Trump has said that if he is re-elected, he will end the “atrocities of the Green New Deal” on Day One. His promises include moving quickly to approve gas pipelines in the Marcellus shale fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York.
Trump is set to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement again. He did so before, but Biden brought the US back into the agreement.
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Wars. At a debate in September, Trump said he wanted Russia’s war in Ukraine to end. But he declined to directly answer whether he wanted Ukraine to win. In his official campaign statement, he simply called for a “ceasefire.”
He said he could "resolve the conflict in one day," even before the inauguration.
Trump has not announced plans for a war between Israel and Hamas if re-elected in 2024, except to say that the war would never have started if he were president (he said the same about the war in Ukraine), and to say in an October interview with Fox News, “We have to protect Israel. There is no choice.”
Abortions. This is a top issue in Kamala Harris's campaign, but Trump has also been hitting that sensitive spot in his campaign rhetoric.
During the September debate, Trump refused to commit to vetoing a national abortion ban and called the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion across the United States, a "great victory."
On Truth Social, he said he "strongly" supports fertility treatments and "has never and will never" advocate for restrictions on birth control.
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