What Does Donald Trump’s Election Mean For…

We asked a range of BU faculty experts what the election results will mean for abortion, immigrants, higher education, the economy, the Supreme Court, and more

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Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaking at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., during an election night watch party. Photo via AP/Lynne Sladky

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What Does Donald Trump’s Election Mean For…

We asked a range of BU faculty experts what the election results will mean for abortion, immigrants, higher education, the economy, the Supreme Court, and more

November 6, 2024

BU Today staff

Former president Donald Trump’s return to the White House following Tuesday’s stunning election is expected to bring some radical changes to how the government has been operating—and more broadly, to American society—if he follows through on some of his campaign promises. Sweeping tariffs? No Department of Education? Mass deportations of immigrants? Fewer protections for the LGBTQ community? We asked Boston University experts to assess the possible impacts of a second Trump presidency on a selection of key topics.

Abortion

On Wednesday morning, amid a sea of losses, one bright spot prevailed for Democrats: out of 10 nationwide ballot initiatives regarding abortion laws, seven states saw the passage of protective measures, including in traditionally red states like Arizona, Missouri, and Montana.

“Trump won in five of those states, which suggests that voters chose to protect reproductive rights even as they voted for Trump,” says Linda McClain, the Robert Kent Professor of Law at the BU School of Law and codirector of the LAW Program in Reproductive Justice.

During his most recent campaign, Trump’s “rare message discipline” in downplaying his previous administration’s role in the 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision muddied his persona as an antiabortion avenger, McClain says. In August, he claimed that his second term would be “great for women and their reproductive rights,” and he’s also said that he would not support a federal ban if it were proposed. McClain, and many others, are not convinced that this represents a turnabout in reproductive politics.

“Even as he argued that the abortion issue now properly rested with the states and that he would veto a national abortion ban, he asserted that some state laws were too harsh and those would be ‘fixed’ if he were elected,” she says.

If Trump were to back Project 2025—an ultraconservative political initiative he has heretofore kept his distance from, but which members of his inner circle openly support—he would be permitting its enforcement of the Comstock Act of 1873, an obscure law that prohibits the mailing of “obscene” materials for illegal means. Under a reinvigorated Comstock, abortion-inducing drugs like mifepristone, medical instruments used to perform abortions, and potentially, even standard forms of contraception could become illegal to transport.

“Will Trump continue to claim no connection to Project 2025 or will his administration target medication abortion?” McClain wonders. “What form will Trump’s pledge to protect women ‘whether they like it or not’ take? Given J. D. Vance’s natalism and the disturbing stream of sexist and racist insults directed at Vice President Harris, her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, and prominent supporters of the ticket, it is a sobering question.”—Sophie Yarin

Photo by Jim Watson/Getty images

Immigration

Trump has touted a sweeping overhaul of U.S. immigration policy, promising, during his campaign, to carry out what he calls the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

“We have to believe him,” says Sarah Sherman-Stokes, a clinical associate professor at the Boston University School of Law. “We don’t know exactly what the next four years will hold, but whether or not he’s successful in actually carrying out the details of his plans, I think what we know from his first term is that he will sow the seeds of fear and chaos.”

Sherman-Stokes, who is also the associate director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic at BU, is concerned that Trump and his administration—with help from a Republican-controlled Senate (and possibly House)—could make drastic changes to legal immigration pathways, such as the process for securing temporary protected status. At the very least, that fear and chaos his policies are certain to create will “have a devastating impact on immigrant communities,” she says.

“He will probably mobilize more immigration enforcement officials. There probably will be more raids and more terror in immigrant communities, and that I am really, really afraid of. I’m thinking back to 2016 and 2017, when many of my clients were afraid to go to the doctor. They were afraid to send their kids to school. They were afraid that interacting with any kind of government or service provider could put them at risk of being detained and deported. And I think that’s what scares me the most.”

Still, Sherman-Stokes emphasizes that there’s reason for hope—or at least determination. “Regardless of who’s president, we still have community, creativity, solidarity, and opportunities for resistance,” she says. “Being at the School of Law and having law students who are excited to jump in and do this work and push back against injustice is really amazing.”—Molly Callahan

Photo by Michael Kappeler/AP Images

Middle East

Many a United States president has come into office determined to help bring peace to the Middle East and left office with the situation there no better—and sometimes even worse—than when they arrived. Throughout his campaign, Trump vowed to be the one who will bring peace to the region: “Get it over with and let’s get back to peace and stop killing people,” he said of the conflict in Gaza in a radio interview in April.

Shamiran Mako, an assistant professor of international relations and political science at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies, says President Biden’s policy didn’t deviate much from Trump’s first term, “particularly on Israel and Palestine and the question of American mediation over a two-state solution, and unconstrained support for Israel’s policy toward Gaza.”

What does she expect of Trump’s second term?

“A second Trump term will, nevertheless, have implications for regional politics and American foreign policy toward the region. First, I will keenly be following Trump’s policy toward Iran, given that in his first term, the Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). A more antagonistic policy toward Iran will surely expedite its ambitions of developing nuclear capabilities. Second, the Abraham Accords adopted under his first term had less to do with bringing about peace to the region, and more about cementing alliances between Israel and key states in the GCC and Morocco in exchange for substantive weapons sales. The continuation of this policy has the potential to destabilize the region by fueling regional conflicts and igniting a potential arms race, which has cascading effects on Iran’s strategic goal of obtaining a nuclear warhead.”

Photo via AP/Fadel Itani/NurPhoto

Higher Education

Attacks on the legitimacy of higher education were reaching crisis levels even before Trump won a second term, part of a larger assault on access, knowledge, and information, says Mary L. Churchill, associate dean of strategic initiatives and community involvement at BU’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.

She cites the closure of local newspapers, book bans, and the banning of civics education classes in many public K-12 systems (mostly in red states) as part of the same onslaught.

“If you look at what happens in other countries, like Turkey, China, and Russia, where there are these kind of authoritarian takeovers, it really denies access to freedom of information to people,” says Churchill, Wheelock program director of higher education administration and a professor of the practice. “And so what happens in higher ed in these types of situations, and what has been happening, is more attacks on professors. Even J. D. Vance [who attended Ohio State and Yale Law School] said university professors are the enemy because they teach people to think independently.”

Churchill warns about renewed attacks in a second Trump administration, including continued discrediting of the value of a college education, and about a continued decline in college attendance rates, especially among white men.

“We’re also seeing some of the lowest beliefs in the validity of science, right?” she says. “People don’t trust doctors. They don’t trust faculty. So we’re in a real crisis point where the work we do in higher ed is even more important, as is the connection between higher ed and our K-12 systems” to help young people develop a college-going identity.

What’s more, she says, expect to see continued attacks on institutions’ diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and chilling effects on free speech and campus protests. Faculty will feel less emboldened to speak up on issues where they have expertise. Churchill says moves made under President Biden to ease the financial burden through student loan forgiveness and income-related repayment will cease as well.

International students and faculty may be negatively affected if Trump makes it more difficult for students and scholars to study and work in the US. “So continuing to be a place where we are supportive of our international colleagues is going to be really, really important, as they are likely to come under attack,” she says.—Amy Laskowski

Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

LGBTQIA+ Americans

The past few years have already seen a record number of bills aimed at the LGBTQIA+ community, including criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors, banning transgender students from playing on sports teams that don’t match their gender at birth, and outlawing drag performances in public spaces.

President-elect Donald Trump frequently targeted gender-nonconforming Americans in his remarks on the campaign trail. He falsely claimed that students were undergoing gender-reassignment surgeries at schools, vowed to “keep men out of women’s sports,” and mocked LGBTQIA+ people in the military, among other talking points. He also promised to pursue multiple anti-LGBTQIA+ policies if elected, such as eliminating federal funding for any hospital that offers gender-affirming care to minors and requiring federal agencies to twilight programs that promote gender transition.

Now that Trump is set to return to the White House, how could his presidency—coupled with a Republican Senate and conservative Supreme Court—further impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ Americans?

“I imagine that there are going to be restrictions on healthcare—that’s probably going to be the big one,” says Katy Collins, director of BU’s LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center. “I also think we’re going to see [attacks on transgender people] in sports, and I worry about folks being emboldened to be violent towards trans folks and anyone they perceive to not fall into a gender binary.”

At the LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center, Collins says, the focus is on helping the BU community feel supported now and in the weeks to come.

“We want people to know that they have a place here,” they say, “that there is a community that is here for them, and that we organized in 2016 and we will organize again.”—Alene Bouranova

Photo via iStock/SCM Jeans

Foreign Policy (NATO, Ukraine)

“After a sleepless night and President Donald Trump’s surprising (?) ‘red landslide’ victory, I’ll take a risk of making premature predictions about President Trump’s approach to NATO and Ukraine,” says Vesko Garčević, a professor of the practice of international relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and interim director of the Center for the Study of Europe.

“First, President Trump has a long history of bashing comments about NATO, particularly European allies, yet a U.S. potential withdrawal from NATO seems to be highly unlikely. While any move towards separation from NATO, regardless of its success, would put the alliance in jeopardy and undermine its military/security capability, the American president must acquire the Senate’s two-thirds approval, which is extremely difficult to achieve even with Republican control of the Senate after yesterday’s elections.

“Second, the Trump victory will likely shift the American approach to Moscow. He has several times promised to settle the Ukrainian war in one day, but the Kremlin’s reaction is cautious and more realistic. With Trump in the White House, Ukraine shouldn’t count on the unwavering support of Washington and additional financial and military assistance. Some believe the future U.S. president could ‘precook’ a deal with Putin and present it to Ukrainian President Zelensky as more or less a fait accompli. A more challenging question would be which role the U.S. is planning to play in the European security architecture following the end of the Ukrainian war.

“Third, with Donald Trump again in the White House, the EU must develop new plans to increase autonomy, invest in European defense (surpassing a two-percent defense spending threshold), and guarantee Ukraine’s security in any future temporary or provisional peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.”—John O’Rourke

Photo via Alamy/Oleksandr Prykhodko/

Climate Change

Scientists already fighting an uphill battle against climate change amid public skepticism and corporate opposition face an even more difficult foe in a Trump administration. Trump calls climate change a hoax and has made clear that he will favor fossil fuels over clean energy.

“I have major concerns about the potential negative impact of the forthcoming Trump administration, as they may reverse positive measures that have been taken to limit adverse consequences of climate change,” says David Hamer, a BU School of Public Health and Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine professor of global health and of medicine. Hamer is also a core researcher at BU’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and affiliated with the BU Institute for Global Sustainability,.

Aside from planetary consequences, if climate change proceeds unchecked, public health will be at risk, a warming environment will bring an increase in vector-borne diseases spread by birds and mosquitoes, such as eastern equine encephalitis to dengue fever, as well as ocean-borne diseases moving north in warming water, Hamer says. There are also major public health risks associated with worsening storms and flooding that impact water and sewer systems. Storms knocking out electricity for refrigeration and cooling is a major concern, including for heat stroke.

Climate scientists “need to try to convince him and his administration that it’s not a hoax, it’s a real problem, and it’s going to have real major repercussions over the next few years and even more so over the next few decades,” says Hamer.—Joel Brown

Photo via iStock/Maxim Shmakov

Health

Riffing on his Make America Great Again slogan, Trump promised his administration would “make America healthy again.” One way he said he’d do that is by allowing vaccination and water fluoridation opponent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to “go wild on health…go wild on medicines.” Trump also pledged to bring down healthcare and drug costs, protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF), and ban gender-affirming care for minors.

But until these become formal policies or laws, Michael Stein, a professor and chair of health law, policy, and management at the School of Public Health, is focusing on another potential health impact of the second Trump presidency, one which many decried during the COVID pandemic.

“Since we don’t know which Trump campaign suggestions will be activated toward policy in 2025, I am more concerned about public health becoming delegitimized through the abandonment or silencing of experts and evidence,” Stein says.

“I am worried that health scientists who present factual evidence that policymakers don’t want to hear will again become targets of threats, silenced, fired, even physically attacked, as occurred during the first Trump term,” he says. “Delegitimization is dangerous. A system in which people are appointed to influential public health positions because of their allegiance to a particular political belief, or disregard for a particular scientific result, as we’ve already seen, is disastrous.”—Andrew Thurston

Photo by Janice Checchio

The Democratic and Republican Parties

“A little honesty is in order: we don’t know what we don’t know,” says Andrew David, a senior lecturer in social sciences at the College of General Studies. “It will take some time to really understand last night. Even the campaigns might not yet really understand what happened.

“This was a close win for Trump, with his margin of victory at 2 percent or less in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. But the scale of this victory is impressive, both in terms of swing-state wins and scope. Even in safe blue areas, Trump made inroads. Exit polls suggested significant dissatisfaction with the state of the nation. Whether people were voting on personality, the economy, immigration, a short-term feeling of national ‘wrong direction,’ or a larger MAGA feeling of national decline remains to be seen. I wonder if the MAGA coalition will be unified over a ‘right’ way forward, or what its future looks like once Trump leaves office.

“The Democrats bet heavily and geographically narrowly on a coalition that worked in 2020 and the midterms: their traditional base, disaffected Republicans, and suburban women. That apparently wasn’t enough to combat Trump’s messaging and larger questions or perceptions of the Biden/Harris record. Their approach was an informed bet, but it wasn’t enough. The party also continues to lose much of its longtime core, including working-class voters, those without a college degree, and minorities. I think the Democrats will have to go back to the drawing board on outreach and policy.

“There’s also a chance this is perhaps not as complex as it seems. Trump’s GOTV [Get Out The Vote] effort was viewed with some skepticism pre-election, as much of it was outsourced. The Democrats had a much stronger, larger, and traditional ground game. Trump’s victory could be for complex ideological reasons, or it could be that he got out the vote better than Harris did.”—Rich Barlow

Photo via Unsplash/Element5 Digital

The Economy

“By controlling Congress, he’s in the difficult position of having to deliver on what he promised,” says Laurence Kotlikoff, a William Fairfield Warren Professor and a professor of economics at BU’s College of Arts & Sciences.

“Eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits, cutting the corporate tax, and other expensive tax cuts, which means he will need to impose his 20 percent, across-the-board tariff. Which is going to mean inflation of 20 percent, most likely, and a trade war with Europe, China, and other countries who will retaliate. That may lead the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates and make this situation worse.

“I see major economic turmoil. But he may decide, with his economic advisors, to go a different direction, for more fundamental fiscal reform that makes sense. We have fiscal policies and healthcare systems that need to be rationalized so that people have better incentives to work and we can get more revenue. There’s a potential here for some good things to happen if they think big.”—Rich Barlow

Photo by Nuthawut Somsuk

Supreme Court and Justice

Trump left office in 2020 with a judiciary largely shaped by him. With the nomination of three conservative justices on the Supreme Court and hundreds of conservative-leaning federal judges who are still serving lifetime appointments, he had a firm grasp on the federal court system—one that will only be further entrenched as he enters his second term, says Robert L. Tsai, a professor of law and Harry Elwood Warren Memorial Scholar at the Boston University School of Law.

To start, he may have a chance to appoint one or two more Supreme Court justices. Samuel Alito, 74, Clarence Thomas, 76, and Sonia Sotomayor, 70, are among the oldest currently on the bench. And if Sotomayor, a liberal justice, retires, Trump could expand the conservative majority to 7-2. Even if he doesn’t get a chance to appoint a justice, it’s still a court forged by conservatives, and one where “you’re not going to get any meaningful expansion of individual rights or liberties through the litigation,” Tsai says.

Beyond the Supreme Court, Trump campaigned on a promise to seek retribution against his perceived political foes, as well as a strong desire to end the federal criminal investigations against him. To achieve these goals, he’ll need an attorney general willing to do his bidding—and he’ll likely find one, Tsai says.

In this second term, after many moderate or at least more traditional Republicans have already sounded the alarm about Trump’s worst tendencies, “You’re going to have more ideologues come in, more loyalists come in and fill some of those positions,” Tsai says. “And that’s where the Senate becomes really important, not just for the judicial picks, but for things like the next attorney general.”

Republicans gained control of the Senate on Tuesday, while the House still remains contested.—Molly Callahan

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For all the rhetoric we heard about ‘preserving democracy’ from the Team that was actively pursuing censorship of views they didn’t like .. yeah, from the sameTeam that kinda pulled a soft coup in replacing their candidate when the Politburo didn’t think he could win, anointing a new candidate that never survived a primary .. well they got a Master’s level class in Democracy on Tuesday!

A very clear majority of the electorate, all walks and stripes within the country, rose up and said ENOUGH! Enough of the ‘open borders’ .. Enough of the rise in crime and fentanyl in our communities .. Enough funding of endless foreign wars in countries that most of The People can’t find on a map .. Enough of the rampant inflation caused by out of control governmental spending, etc etc etc. The majority was resounding in repudiating the past four years of Biden Administration. Trump’s electoral win was equally MASSIVE!

The ‘abortion issue’ IS important, but not nearly as much to the American household/individuals as being able to feed their families, buy gas, pay rent, etc etc .. the matter is now firmly in the hands of each state .. some have gone ‘more conservative’ while others have gone ‘more progressive’ BUT each state is following the will of its own electorate – and THAT’S democracy at work .. the federal government should have never been in your bedroom in the first place!

Now the work begins .. and before he even is inaugurated, Russia thinks it’s a good idea to re-set things and end the war .. Hamas is ready for peace .. Houthi’s have also come to the table .. China wants to dial things down .. STRENGTH beats WEAKNESS and we’ve been almost impossibly weak for the past four years!

Inflation and the economy will be a tough putt, but I’d not recommend betting against Trump .. let’s let Elon Musk loose on picking up efficiencies in government with DOGE .. lets get RFK Jr after the health agencies which are terribly corrupted .. there is SO MUCH to do, and as Americans we should ALL be rooting for success – instead of shaving our heads, talking of fleeing the country (which you’ll never do), screaming in public making a pathetic skeptical of oneself, etc etc etc .. Cheer for America, a healthy and prosperous country isn’t really all that bad of a goal – and we’ll be FAR more capable of helping others when we’re stronger here!

And if you’re totally unsatisfied, as most of the electorate was after Biden promised to govern as a moderate, only to deliver four years of a wild left hand turn, then mobilize and win the next election.

THAT’S how democracy works!

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There are 13 comments on What Does Donald Trump’s Election Mean For…

Dawson Williams

November 7, 2024 at 7:16 am

America has significanty changed forever, at least in our lifetimes, and not for the better… As sad as it is to see, America will now get what its public called for… I just hope those who voted to embrace this outrage will remember the ill fated mission they have placed us on…


WT

November 7, 2024 at 7:56 am

The American citizens have spoken! Great day for democracy!

After 8 years of Biden and his supporters bashing the American citizens, we have spoken! It is a great day for democracy in the USA and the world.
I do not remember reading any pro-Trump articles or expert opinions in BU Today. Will there be a media reckoning? Will the media reconnect with the majority of voters or keep representing the elites?


1. Catiline Casey
  
  November 7, 2024 at 11:09 am
  
  Hi WT:
  
  BU Today published a pro-Trump article just last week!
  https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/student-pov-why-im-voting-for-donald-trump/
  
  
  1. Rex
    
    November 7, 2024 at 2:04 pm
    
    Thank you Catiline
    You probably won’t find many others… most BU Today political opinion articles tend to lean one way unfortunately, such as this one… I have previously expressed the hope that such articles include both political viewpoints (and possibly a third unbiased one). One can only hope… Meanwhile, with respect to the recent elections, the outcome (whether we like it or not) represents the will of the majority… that is what democracy is… right?
    
    
2. Austin Butler
  
  November 7, 2024 at 11:46 am
  
  Exactly, Trump won because he LISTENED to the working class. Democrats take note…
  
  
3. Chaych
  
  November 10, 2024 at 6:11 am
  
  It hasn’t been 8 years with Biden. Only 4. A president can’t run again if he has served 2 terms, and Trump was at the beginning of COVID, in 2020.
  
  
Dena M Bergeron

November 8, 2024 at 3:29 pm

He says he is for “the people” but does nothing for the middle or lower class. His plan has so many conservative changes he wants to implement that will increase our taxed – especially the tariffs.
I am so worried about the education changes – all for profit. WIC program and healthcare changes will not be good. He has created an “Un-United States of America”.
Women and children will suffer from this. We will go back in time!
Our planet is in dire need of help, climate change is real, and his policies will make it worse.
I worry about my daughter, and the rights she will now have removed.


Greg

November 9, 2024 at 9:35 am

For all the rhetoric we heard about ‘preserving democracy’ from the Team that was actively pursuing censorship of views they didn’t like .. yeah, from the sameTeam that kinda pulled a soft coup in replacing their candidate when the Politburo didn’t think he could win, anointing a new candidate that never survived a primary .. well they got a Master’s level class in Democracy on Tuesday!

A very clear majority of the electorate, all walks and stripes within the country, rose up and said ENOUGH! Enough of the ‘open borders’ .. Enough of the rise in crime and fentanyl in our communities .. Enough funding of endless foreign wars in countries that most of The People can’t find on a map .. Enough of the rampant inflation caused by out of control governmental spending, etc etc etc. The majority was resounding in repudiating the past four years of Biden Administration. Trump’s electoral win was equally MASSIVE!

The ‘abortion issue’ IS important, but not nearly as much to the American household/individuals as being able to feed their families, buy gas, pay rent, etc etc .. the matter is now firmly in the hands of each state .. some have gone ‘more conservative’ while others have gone ‘more progressive’ BUT each state is following the will of its own electorate – and THAT’S democracy at work .. the federal government should have never been in your bedroom in the first place!

Now the work begins .. and before he even is inaugurated, Russia thinks it’s a good idea to re-set things and end the war .. Hamas is ready for peace .. Houthi’s have also come to the table .. China wants to dial things down .. STRENGTH beats WEAKNESS and we’ve been almost impossibly weak for the past four years!

Inflation and the economy will be a tough putt, but I’d not recommend betting against Trump .. let’s let Elon Musk loose on picking up efficiencies in government with DOGE .. lets get RFK Jr after the health agencies which are terribly corrupted .. there is SO MUCH to do, and as Americans we should ALL be rooting for success – instead of shaving our heads, talking of fleeing the country (which you’ll never do), screaming in public making a pathetic skeptical of oneself, etc etc etc .. Cheer for America, a healthy and prosperous country isn’t really all that bad of a goal – and we’ll be FAR more capable of helping others when we’re stronger here!

And if you’re totally unsatisfied, as most of the electorate was after Biden promised to govern as a moderate, only to deliver four years of a wild left hand turn, then mobilize and win the next election.

THAT’S how democracy works!


Certinho

November 9, 2024 at 11:52 am

Well. Good luck to the pathetic, polluted trash hole this place will become. Expanded drilling, mining, fracking on sacred public lands. Our National Parks. Alignment with more dictators. Less freedom and right for all. A bigger police/surveillance state, more guns on the streets, less education, less protection for workers/anti-unionism, less protection for voters of color, LGBTQIA voters, hyper-corporatism, white/far-right nationalism, more militarism = more conflict and war. I could go on, but I think intelligent people know the bottom line and its not looking good for the average person.
Be on the look out for the return of Jim Crow and another outbreak of some kind of pandemic.


[PrivateUser]

November 9, 2024 at 7:53 pm

I know not many people will agree with me when i say this, but I’m actually concerned about the laws he’s trying to set for the LGBTQIA+ community. I, myself am apart of the community (Trans and Bisexual to be specific) and am actually worried about the trans youth. There’s likely going to be a higher chance of $uicid3, mainly because without having that gender-affirming care, they’ll likely not “fit in” with those of their desired gender at school and be bullied due to those reasons, thus leading to higher rates in $uicid3 among youth. I may be thinking too much about this, but I’m still concerned overall. Even if I’m thinking too much about this.


R. McDonald

November 10, 2024 at 1:43 pm

Ask yourself this, was it bad the last time, compared to Biden/Harris, NO, He did a lot of great things for our country. And you have to look at how many times we were headed for government shut downs, funding the wars and not helping our own here in America during disasters. Atleast with him, you know what’s going to happen, he says it, he does it, the others lie, tell us stories, then when the sh**t hits the fan, they lie again.


Adam Voss

November 15, 2024 at 8:23 am

Trump is not holding back this time. He will truly change America back to a great nation. Matt Gaetz and RFK should be able to shake things up a bit. Looking forward to the next 4 years.


1. Tony Kline
  
  November 18, 2024 at 12:45 pm
  
  A lawyer for Trump has just confirmed that what Trump has planned for day one on illegal immigration will cause “shock and awe”. He is going to deport all the illegal gang members first, and quickly! This is what the People voted for.

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