2024 U.S. Presidential Election Result
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2024 U.S. President of the United States election results map (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election, Attribution: Electoral College, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election has come to a close. These campaign issues were on the minds of the American people when they voted on November 5, 2024.
Description of the video below, in italics, below:
Republicans will control the Senate after flipping several seats in the 2024 election and could also keep a majority in the House of Representatives. NBC News reports on the possibility of GOP-controlled government after the historic Republican gains and Donald Trump’s return to the White House, in the video published on Nov 6, 2024, by NBC News, as “Steve Komacki breaks down the 2024 election results“, below:
Below, in italics, were excerpt from wikipedia.
Harris campaign
Harris has framed her campaign as “a choice between freedom and chaos” and based it around the ideals of “freedom” and “the future”.[195][196] The Harris campaign has sought to highlight her experience as an attorney general and a prosecutor to “prosecute the case” against Trump by pointing out his 34 felony convictions and the impacts of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.[197][198] Harris is running as a moderate Democrat who has moved towards the center on several policy positions since her 2019 primary run, embracing many of Biden’s domestic policy stances.[199] Harris has focused her economic proposals on the cost of groceries, housing and healthcare.[200] She has also focused on the middle class, and small businesses.[201] Harris’ campaign has been noted for having an optimistic and joyful tone.[202][203]
Trump campaign
A central campaign theme for Trump’s second presidential bid is “retribution“.[204][205] Trump framed the 2024 election as “the final battle,” and openly promised to leverage the power of the presidency for political reprisals.[206] Trump is heavily running on immigration as a central campaign focus. Trump’s campaign has focused on dark and apocalyptic rhetoric about the state of the country and predicting doom if he does not win.[207][208][209] The Associated Press stated that “Trump’s rallies take on the symbols, rhetoric and agenda of Christian nationalism.”[210] During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump has made numerous false and misleading statements.[16][17][18] The large number of lies and false statements have been attributed to Trump’s rhetorical style described as using the big lie and firehose of falsehood propaganda technique.[211][212] Trump has also made many personal attacks against Harris,[213] several of which are sexual in nature,[25] have been characterized as racist and misogynistic,[214][215][216] and are considered a further breach of political norms.[25] Trump’s harsher rhetoric against his political enemies has been described by historians, scholars, commentators and former generals as populist, authoritarian, fascist,[f] and unlike anything a political candidate has ever said in American history.[22][229][24]
Abortion
Abortion access is a key topic during the campaign.[230][36] This is the first presidential election to be held in the aftermath of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, in which the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving abortion law entirely to the states, including bans on abortion.[231] The three justices appointed by former president Trump—Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch—all voted to overturn the federal right to an abortion in Dobbs.[232] By April 2023, most Republican-controlled states had passed near-total bans on abortion, rendering it largely illegal throughout much of the southern United States. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, there are 15 states that have de jure early-stage bans on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest.[231]
Abortion will be on the ballot in up to ten states in 2024, including the swing states of Arizona and Nevada.[233] Some pundits have argued abortion rights referenda could help Harris in November.[234][235][236]
Democrats predominantly advocate for abortion access as a right,[237] while Republicans generally favor significantly restricting the legality of abortion.[238] Since becoming the presumptive nominee, Harris has indicated her support for passing legislation which would restore the federal abortion right protections previously guaranteed by Roe.[239][240] She argued Trump would let his anti-abortion allies implement Project 2025 proposals to restrict abortion and contraception throughout the US.[241]
Trump has claimed credit for overturning Roe, but criticized Republicans pushing for total abortion bans.[242][243] Trump has said he will leave the issue of abortion for the states to decide, but would allow red states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute them if they have an abortion.[244] In his home state of Florida, Trump announced he would vote No on Amendment 4, an abortion rights referendum, preserving the six-week ban.[245] The announcement came one day after he initially criticized the six-week ban for being “too short” and said he would vote to lengthen it.[246] Trump has repeated a false claim that Democrats support abortions after birth and “executing” babies.[247][248]
Border security and immigration
Border security and immigration are among the top issues concerning potential voters in the election.[249][250] Polling has shown that most Americans want to reduce immigration[251] and that a substantial minority of White Republicans are concerned about White demographic decline.[252] In 2023 and early 2024, a surge of migrants entering through the border with Mexico occurred.[253] By June 2024, illegal crossings reached a three-year low following four consecutive monthly drops, which senior officials attributed to increased enforcement between the US and Mexico, the weather, and Biden’s executive order increasing asylum restrictions.[254]
Harris has promised to fight for “strong border security” coupled with an earned pathway to citizenship. Harris has highlighted her work in combating transnational gangs, drug cartels, and human traffickers while attorney general.[255] In 2023, as vice president, Harris announced pledges of US$950 million from private companies into Central American communities to address the causes of mass migration, such as poverty.[240] Harris states she believes the immigration system is “broken” and needs to be fixed, and she says most Americans believe this.[240] Harris also advocates for stricter asylum rules than president Biden.[256] Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents and accuses Trump as being unserious on border security.[257] While vice president, Harris supported a bipartisan bill which would have funded additional border agents and closed the border if too crowded, the bill was rejected by Trump. Trump called on House and Senate Republicans to kill the bill arguing it would hurt his and Republican’s reelection campaigns and deny them the ability to run on immigration as a campaign issue.[258][259][260][261][262][263] Harris has criticized Trump for his opposition to the bill on the campaign trail,[255] and has promised to sign the bill into law as president.[264]
Trump has stated that if elected, he would increase deportations, send the U.S. military to the border, expand ICE detentions through workplace raids,[265] deputize local law enforcement to handle border security, increase Customs and Border Patrol funding as well as finish building the wall on the southern border.[266] Trump has said he will deport both legal and illegal immigrants.z267][268] [The New York Times reported that Trump is considering “an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration,” such as “preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled.”[265] Trump has stated his intention to deport 11 million people through the construction of detention camps and using the military[244] through the 18th century Alien Enemies Act.[224] Trump has made false claims of a “migrant crime wave” that are not supported by data, and has provided no evidence to back up his claims.[269][270]
Trump’s anti-immigrant nativist[271] tone has grown harsher from his previous time as president,[265] and has used fearmongering,[d] racial stereotypes,[271] and more dehumanizing rhetoric when referring to illegal immigrants. Trump has repeatedly called some immigrants subhuman, stating they are “not human”, “not people”, and “animals”[281][282][283] who will “rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill” American citizens,[267] that they are “stone-cold killers”, “monsters”, “vile animals”, “savages”, and “predators” that will “walk into your kitchen, they’ll cut your throat”[279][280][267][270] and “grab young girls and slice them up right in front of their parents”.[267] Other rhetoric includes false statements that foreign leaders are deliberately emptying insane asylums to send “prisoners, murderers, drug dealers, mental patients, terrorists”[284] across America’s southern border as migrants, that they are “building an army” of “fighting age” men to attack Americans “from within”[285] and are the “enemy from within” who are ruining the “fabric” of the country.[224] Since fall 2023,[286] Trump has claimed that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” which has drawn comparisons to racial hygiene rhetoric used by White supremacists and Adolf Hitler.[287][288][286][168] In the 20 rallies since Trump’s debate with Harris, Politico found his rhetoric, especially around immigrants, getting darker, citing experts who found it strongly echoed authoritarian and Nazi ideology, including claims that immigrants are genetically predisposed to commit crimes and have “bad genes”.[224][289] Trump’s comments come as part of violent, dehumanizing rhetoric Trump has increasingly utilized during his campaign.[162][281][167][168][169][170]
Climate change
Climate change and energy policy have played a role in the 2024 presidential campaign. In 2023, the United States saw a record in crude oil production with over 13.2 million barrels of crude per day beating the 13 million barrels per day produced at the peak of Trump’s presidency.[290] America also dealt with supply shocks caused by the 2021–2024 global energy crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine.[291]
Harris is an advocate for environmental justice to address the impact of climate change on lower-income areas and people of color. Under Biden, she supported his climate legislation.[240] Harris helped pass the Inflation Reduction Act,[292] the largest investment in addressing climate change and clean energy in US history[293] putting the US on track to meet emissions reduction targets by 50–52% below 2005 levels by 2030.[294] Harris’s campaign has stated that she does not support a ban on fracking.[295][296][199]
Trump has ridiculed the idea of man-made climate change[297][298][299] and repeatedly referred to his energy policy under the mantra “drill, baby, drill.“[300] Trump says he will increase oil drilling on public lands and offer tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal producers. Trump has stated his goal for the U.S. to have the lowest cost of electricity and energy of any country in the world.[301] Trump has promised to roll back electric vehicle initiatives, proposed once again leaving the Paris Climate Accords, and rescinding several environmental regulations.[301][302] Trump has stated his intention to roll back parts of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.[303] The implementation of Trump’s plans will add around 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030, having also effects on the international level. If the policies will not change further, it will add 15 billion tons by 2040 and 27 billion by 2050. The exact calculation is difficult, but the researchers state that “Regardless of the precise impact, a second Trump term that successfully dismantles Biden’s climate legacy would likely end any global hopes of keeping global warming below 1.5C.”[304]
Democracy
Polling before the election has indicated profound dissatisfaction with the state of American democracy.[305][306][307] Liberals tend to believe that conservatives are threatening the country with Christian nationalist autocratic tendencies and their attempts to overturn the 2020 election.[308] According to an October 25 ABC/Ipsos poll, 49% of Americans see Trump as a fascist, described as “a political extremist who seeks to act as a dictator, disregards individual rights and threatens or uses force against their opponents.” Meanwhile, only 22% saw Harris as a fascist by this definition.[309] Some Republicans are concerned that Trump’s former impeachment and four criminal indictments are attempts to influence the election and keep him from office.[310] However, there is no evidence that Trump’s criminal trials are “election interference” orchestrated by Biden and the Democratic Party.[121][61] Trump has repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.[19]
Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has been criticized by legal experts, historians, and political scientists for making increasingly violent and authoritarian statements,[311][312][313] which some believe the Trump campaign is intentionally leaning into.[314] Trump’s platform calls for the vast expansion of presidential powers and the executive branch over every part of the federal government.[315] Trump has called for stripping employment protections for thousands of career civil service employees and replacing them with political loyalists if deemed an “obstacle to his agenda” within federal agencies, the United States Intelligence Community, State Department, and Department of Defense.[316] Trump has repeatedly stated his intention to have the Justice Department investigate and arrest his domestic political rivals, judges, prosecutors, and witnesses involved in his criminal trials.[317][318][319] A large number of scholars, historians, commentators, former Trump officials and generals have described Trump as a fascist.[f] Trump has said his political opponents are a greater threat to the United States than countries such as Russia, China, and North Korea,[169][320] and has urged deploying the military on American soil to fight “the enemy from within” which he describes as “radical left lunatics” and Democratic politicians such as Adam Schiff.[321] Trump has repeatedly voiced support for outlawing political dissent and criticism he considers misleading or challenges his claims to power.[322][323] Trump has previously tried to prosecute his political rivals and would have fewer checks on his power in a second term.[324]
Project 2025 is a proposed plan by the Heritage Foundation to centralize power into the executive branch for conservative policies to be enacted without input from the judicial branch, legislative branch or local government. The plan received some support from the Republican Party. The document was written in part by former members of the Trump administration, such as Russell Vought and John McEntee,[325] while Trump stated he is unfamiliar with parts of the plan.[326][327][328]
Trump’s campaign has been noted for using increasingly dehumanizing and violent rhetoric against his political opponents.[162][281][329][168][330][331] Calling the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack a “day of love,” Trump has promised to pardon those charged for their involvement and has called those charged “hostages” and “great, great patriots.”[332][333][334][335] Trump has played down but not ruled out violence after the 2024 election if he does not win, stating, “it depends.”[336] Harris was tasked by Biden with protecting democracy through voting rights legislation through her work on the For the People Act. Harris has supported efforts to defend election workers and counter Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election.[240] Harris has stated her support to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Rights Voting Rights Advancement Act if elected.[337]
Economic issues
Voters consistently cited the economy as their top issue in the 2024 election.[30] Following the COVID-19 pandemic, a global surge in inflation ensued that raised prices on many goods, though the U.S. inflation rate had declined significantly during 2023 and 2024.[338][339][340] The New York Times reported that both candidates “embraced a vision of a powerful federal government, using its muscle to intervene in markets in pursuit of a stronger and more prosperous economy.”[341] The Wall Street Journal reported that economists found Trump’s proposed policies created a greater risk of stoking inflation and generating higher budget deficits, relative to the Harris plan.[342] Twenty-three Nobel Prize-winning economists signed a letter characterizing the Harris economic plan as “vastly superior” to the Trump plan.[343] Trump’s designated government efficiency leader Elon Musk said in October that he expected Trump’s plan would involve more than $2 trillion in federal spending cuts and would cause “some temporary hardship.”[344][345]
Harris is running on a pro-union platform.[346] She has promoted the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, funding for small business, and previously supported an act as senator to provide a $6,000 tax credit for middle and low-income families.[240] Harris has promised to address price gouging, bring down costs, ban hidden fees and late charges from financial institutions, limit “unfair” rent increases and cap prescription drug costs which she has said would “lower costs and save many middle-class families thousands of dollars a year”.[347]
The New York Times described Harris’ economic policy as embracing “the idea that the federal government must act aggressively to foster competition and correct distortions in private markets.” Harris has proposed raising taxes on corporations and high-earners to fund services for the lower and middle classes and reduce the deficit.[341] Harris has stated she supports increasing the top tier capital gains tax rate to 28%, up from 20% and lower than Biden’s proposed 39.6%. Harris has stated her support for a Billionaire Minimum Income Tax, increasing the tax on stock buybacks to 4%, and a ten-fold tax reduction for small business ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 in relief.[348] Harris also supports efforts to create a tax on unrealized gains for those with more than a $100 million in net worth if they do not pay a minimum 25% tax rate on their income inclusive of unrealized gains so long as 80% of said wealth is in tradeable assets. The plan would impact a small percentage of America’s wealthy, and Axios reported most tech founders and investors would be spared.[349] Harris has also announced support for restoring the corporate tax rate to 28% among several other tax proposals to raise taxes and close loopholes for corporations and the wealthy that would bring in $5 trillion in additional revenue over 10 years.[350] Harris has also proposed tax breaks to companies delivering economic benefit, such as manufacturing technologies to fight global warming and building affordable housing. Harris has proposed a ban on corporate price gouging to “help the food industry become more competitive.”[341] Harris has also expressed support for student debt relief,[351] and Harris says she supports raising the minimum wage.[352]
Harris says she will increase home construction to reduce housing costs, arguing that it negatively impacts the economy and hurts working-class families. Harris has proposed directing $40 billion to construction companies to build starter homes. Harris has promised to send $25,000 in down-payment assistance to every first time home buyer.[341] Harris says she will urge Congress to enforce fair housing laws and pass a bill to bar property owners from using services that “coordinate” rents through the passage of the Preventing the Algorithmic Facilitation of Rental Housing Cartels Act, and also call on Congress to pass the Stop Predatory Investing Act by removing tax benefits to Wall Street firms that buy up large numbers of single-family homes.[353][354]
Trump has proposed further individual and corporate tax cuts beyond his prior 2017 tax cuts.[355] Trump has argued that keeping taxes low for the wealthy increases job creation,[356] and that these policies coupled with a crackdown in illegal immigration and reduction in inflation will help the middle class.[351] Trump says he will reduce regulation of business through the creation of an efficiency commission led by Elon Musk,[357] along with reducing environmental regulation. By October 2024, Musk was Trump’s second-largest individual campaign donor.[358] Trump has said deporting millions of immigrants will bring housing prices down, though most economists argue it could raise prices by removing construction workers who use less real estate.[341][359] Trump and Harris support not taxing tips for at least hospitality and service workers.[352][360]
Trump’s stated trade policy involves the United States decoupling from the global economy and having the country become more self-contained and exerting its power through individual trade dealings. This would be attempted largely through a universal baseline tariff[361] of 10% to 20% on all imports,[362][363] with increased penalties if trade partners manipulate their currency or engage in unfair trade practices.[301] Trump has called for 100% tariffs on cars made outside the U.S. and a minimum 60% tariff on Chinese goods.[362] Trump stated his plans to urge Congress to pass a “Trump Reciprocal Trade Act” to bestow presidential authority to impose a reciprocal tariff on any country that imposed one on the United States.[301] The Washington Post reported in January 2024 that Trump was preparing for a massive trade war.[364] Trump’s trade policies have been described as protectionist,[365] neomercantilist or autarkist.[361][366] Increasing inflation has become a more common critique of Trump’s economic plans.[367][368][369][370] In June 2024, 16 Nobel Prize in Economics laureates signed an open letter arguing that Trump’s fiscal and trade policies coupled with efforts to limit the Federal Reserve’s independence would reignite inflation in the United States.[371][372][373] Moody’s[374] and most economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal in July 2024 predict that inflation would be worse under Trump than Biden, a result due in part to tariffs, a crack down on illegal immigration, and larger deficits.[375] Trump incorrectly insists foreign exporters pay tariffs imposed by the U.S. government; American importers pay tariffs on goods upon arrival at U.S. ports, meaning tariffs are taxes that raise prices for imported products Americans buy.[376][377][378] One non-partisan analysis estimated the proposed tariffs would cost $1,700 per year for the average household.[378] The China–United States trade war Trump initiated in 2018 by imposing tariffs on China was widely characterized as a failure for the United States by the end of Trump’s presidency.[379] The Committee for a Responsible Budget found that Trump’s plans would grow that national debt at roughly twice the rate of Harris’ plan,[380] while the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found Trump’s plan would only benefit the top 5% of earners.[381]
Trump has suggested that he will abolish the federal income tax and replace it with tariffs. In June 2024, Trump discussed the idea of eliminating the income tax in a private meeting with Republican politicians.[382] In October 2024, Trump suggested that he would scrap the income tax if he wins, pointing out that tariffs were the main sources of revenue in the 19th century.[383]
Education
Trump has pledged to terminate the Department of Education,[301][384][385] claiming it has been infiltrated by “radical zealots and Marxists.”[386] At the American Federation of Teachers national convention, Harris attacked recent efforts to ban books in school libraries.[387] She has also previously called for raising teachers’ wages.[388]
Healthcare issues
Healthcare and drug policy have been discussed during the 2024 presidential election, such as around the future of the Affordable Care Act.[389]
Harris has supported efforts to strengthen coverage under the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare),[296] including setting caps on seniors’ out-of-pocket prescription drug prices at $2,000 and limiting the cost of insulin for those on Medicare to $35 enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.[292] Harris has been a proponent of White House efforts to ban medical debt from credit reports.[351] Harris has stated she no longer supports a single-payer healthcare system.[296] Harris has supported the expanded child tax credit enacted in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 that reduced child poverty by 20%.[292] Harris has expressed support for making child care and elder care more affordable and enacting paid family leave.[351] On August 16, 2024, Harris announced the proposal of a $6,000 child tax credit, expanding her populist economic agenda. Other policies including broadening a cap on prescription drug costs and permanently reinstating the expanded child tax credit.[390]
Trump has continued to advocate repealing the Affordable Care Act during the 2024 election, as he did while in office.[32] During an interview on March 11, 2024, Trump suggested he was open to cutting entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, which the Trump campaign later claimed was merely referring to “cutting waste” and that he would protect the programs. Trump previously suggested while president in 2020 that he would “at some point” look into cutting entitlement programs, and Trump’s previous budget proposals have suggested some cuts to the programs.[391][392] JD Vance and Mike Johnson have also suggested cuts to Obamacare, including around pre-existing conditions, were part of Trump’s plan.[393] On the issue of subsidized care, Harris has stated she will “maintain and grow” the Affordable Care Act.[394][395]
Trump has collaborated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda and appointed some Kennedy allies to his transition team. The Trump campaign has said that he will form a panel of experts and will charge them with looking into the causes of the upward trend in chronic disease patients.[396] In October 2024, Trump said that he would let Kennedy “go wild” when it comes to policies on food, medicine, and health.[397]
Foreign policy
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel–Hamas war and Chinese goals of expansion were some of the main foreign policy issues of the election. Harris signaled she would generally follow Biden’s foreign policy on NATO and Ukraine, supporting both in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.[240][398] A supporter of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,[240][399] Harris was expected to continue Biden’s approach,[400] but she is seen as tougher on Israel and more sympathetic to Palestinians than Biden or Trump.[398] Harris advocated for “de-risking” from China, a policy that encourages reducing Western economic dependence on China.[401] Harris was expected to continue deepening American alliances in Asia and the Pacific with the intention of curbing China’s rising power both economically and militarily.[402]
Trump’s 2024 campaign promoted an isolationist “America First” foreign policy.[403][404] Trump said that America’s allies “treat us actually worse than our so-called enemies”, adding “We protect them and then they screw us on trade”, and vowed to impose tariffs on trade partners; economists said this could spark trade wars.[405] He promised to “fundamentally reevaluate” NATO, shifting the US’s defense spending from Europe towards Asia.[301] Although NATO members are obliged to defend any other member who is attacked, Trump said he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO allies that did not spend enough on defense.[406] NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg responded: “Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security”.[407] Trump vowed that even before he is inaugurated,[408] he will negotiate an end to the Russo-Ukrainian War in one day.[409] He promised to quickly cut the amount of military and financial aid to Ukraine,[410] and make Europeans reimburse the U.S. the cost of rebuilding its old stockpiles.[408] Trump previously said he might recognize Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea,[411] and suggested the 2022 invasion could have been prevented by Ukraine giving up parts of its own country to Russia.[403] Trump is seen as more pro-Israel and less sympathetic to Palestine than Biden or Harris.[412] Trump promised a tougher stance against China,[413] but also questioned whether America should defend ally Taiwan.[414] Trump suggested withdrawing troops from South Korea if it does not pay more to support U.S. troops there.[244]
Further information: Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States and Israel–Hamas war protest vote movements
Polling has indicated that the majority of voters support a ceasefire and American mediation in the Israel-Hamas war.[415] According to a YouGov poll in March 2024, 52% of Americans supported stopping weapons shipments to Israel, coming largely from Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 (62% support) and people who did not vote in 2020 (60%). Republicans opposed halting weapons shipments by 25 points.[416] Republicans generally support arms to Israel, while Democrats are divided on the issue.[417]
Harris was expected to largely continue Biden’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,[400] but she is seen as tougher on Israel and more sympathetic to Palestinians than Biden or Trump.[398] Following Hamas‘s attack on Israel in 2023, Harris at first supported Israel’s offensive,[418][400] saying “the threat Hamas poses to the people of Israel must be eliminated”.[240] However, she has since criticized Israel’s actions and the Gaza humanitarian crisis.[398] In March 2024, Harris opposed Israel’s invasion of Rafah,[240] called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza,[400][240] and called the situation in Gaza a “humanitarian catastrophe”.[240] Harris supports continued aid to Israel and Palestine, but insists that Israel should agree to a ceasefire and hostage deal and both sides should towards a two-state solution.[419] In the Democratic primaries, the Uncommitted National Movement led a protest campaign against Biden over the war, calling for a ceasefire and arms embargo on Israel. It received over 700,000 votes and 36 delegates.[420] Harris is seen as more sympathetic to Palestinians, and she and her campaign interacted more with Arab-American and Uncommitted leaders.[421][422] However, Harris refused to halt weapons shipments to Israel or shift policy much from Biden, saying Israel has a right to defend itself.[423][424] By October, Uncommitted encouraged its members to vote for Harris.[425]
Trump, during his first term as president, brought in more pro-Israel policies than any president before.[citation needed] He presented himself as a stronger defender of Israel, and is seen as less sympathetic to Palestine than Biden or Harris.[412] Trump is expected to continue arming Israel, likely with “no strings attached” for humanitarian concerns.[426] He voiced strong support for Israel’s war on Hamas and Gaza, saying that Israel must “finish the problem”.[427] Trump told donors he would “crush” pro-Palestinian protests, deport non-citizen protesters, and “set the movement back 25 or 30 years”.[428][429] Trump would ban Gaza residents from entering the US.[430] At times, he has also been critical of Israel’s war in Gaza, saying Israel should “get it over with … get back to peace and stop killing people”.[431][432]
LGBTQ rights
In recent years, conservative politicians in state legislatures have introduced a growing number of bills that restrict the rights of LGBTQ people, especially transgender people.[433][434]
Harris is a strong supporter of LGBTQ people’s rights.[435] She has denounced legislative attacks on transgender rights in states across the country.[436][437]
Trump has promised to roll back policies regarding transgender individuals.[438] Trump stated he will rescind Biden’s Title IX protections “on day one” for transgender students using bathrooms, locker rooms, and pronouns that align with their gender identities.[439] Trump has stated he would enact a federal law that would recognize only two genders and claimed that being transgender is a concept only recently manufactured by “the radical left.”[440] Trump has pledged “severe consequences” for teachers who “suggest to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body.” Trump previously withdrew Title IX provisions that allowed transgender youth to have access to the bathrooms of their choice, and he attempted to roll-back several transgender-related policies in the Affordable Care Act.[438] Trump has repeated a false claim that children undergo transgender surgery while at school, without parental knowledge or consent.[441][442]
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