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The Pros And Cons Of Donald J. Trump

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On November 9th, 2016, America woke up, shocked, to find that the next president of the United States would be Donald J. Trump. Many Americans were not only shocked that he won, but shocked that he won by an absolute landslide in the electoral college. Donald Trump managed to defeat Hillary Clinton, a supposed shoe-in for the position, 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232 votes (Politico). In close elections, a candidate typically beats his opponent by one state, but this was a landslide victory. Although there are protests and riots throughout the nation and thousands upon thousands of people wondering how this could happen, there is a very clear and obvious explanation. Donald Trump catered to the economic woes of citizens in Wisconsin, Michigan, …show more content…

In 2012 Princeton Survey Research Associates conducted a study and found that “effect on their financial well-being.” (Los Angeles Times) was typically the most important thing in the minds of voters. Clinton assumed that nobody could possibly vote for a candidate which was recording saying “grab them by the pussy”(The Intercept), and that she was, morally, a shoe-in for the election. But it turned out that when thousands of people went to the polls on November 8th, people decided that it didn’t matter that Trump said “grab them by the pussy” and other things as long as he was dedicated to helping them get jobs and the other candidate wasn’t. The rest of the election went as expected, with blue states voting blue and red states voting red, But Trump’s careful targeting of MI, WI, and PA, pulled off: he won each state. In fact, Trump won WI and PA by more than an entire point. In this election, the voting for Economic interests clearly trumped any other reason to …show more content…

Donald Trump has promised to “announce (his) intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205”, “announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, “direct his Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator”, “direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately.” (NPR) Hence, because Donald Trump was elected because of his promises to take jobs back from other countries, he is planning to do a variety of things to affect trade relations with other

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Watching this year’s election was shocking. Against all predictions, against every analysis, Donald Trump became the president-elect of the United States. But were those predictions really off? As the LA Times put it,” Hillary Clinton got roughly the same number of votes that President Obama received four years ago en route to his reelection, but she nonetheless lost the presidency to Donald Trump, who came in at least 2.8 million votes behind her.” This is, of course, because of the electoral college.

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