Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election

Trump has made immigration, the border, and the system hallmarks of his reelection campaign. As the Republican nominee, helium promised wide deportations of undocumented immigrants, suggested that he’d sign a prohibition connected termination aft 15 weeks, and pledged to embrace Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies. His allies astatine the Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute person drafted hundreds of enforcement orders up of Trump’s 2nd term. Their plans see a dismantling of the national bureaucracy and a crackdown connected ineligible immigration.

Trump — who challenged the results of the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and whose supporters stormed the Capitol amid efforts to certify the predetermination — repeatedly refused to accidental he’d judge the results of the 2024 predetermination unless helium won. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Trump’s moving mate, has besides refused to say whether helium believes Trump mislaid the 2020 election. 

Among Trump’s challengers successful the Republican primary, erstwhile South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was the astir vocal professional of his effect to the January 6th riots. Others, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, were acold little captious of Trump. In the end, astir of Trump’s critics wrong his ain enactment fell successful line, and Harris’s efforts to tribunal Trump-skeptical Republicans weren’t capable to propulsion her implicit the edge. Trump flipped important plaything states including Pennsylvania and Georgia, giving him the 270 electoral votes needed to win.

This was a tumultuous run for Trump, whose favorability with voters rose aft helium was shot astatine during a run rally successful Pennsylvania and dipped aft President Joe Biden dropped retired of the race. Biden’s determination to measurement down and endorse vice president Kamala Harris proved to beryllium a hurdle for Trump, whose run had until that constituent had mostly focused connected Biden’s property and fittingness for office.