There is a great significance of this election on the United States currently. The senate, the House of Representatives, and the Executive branch are all majority republican. Also Trump is most likely going to get the opportunity to appoint new Supreme Court judges considering three of the judges are older than 80. So the Supreme Court will probably end up being majority republican. Which means that more conservative ideals are most likely going to get passed. During Obama’s second term presidency he made a lot of decisions using executive action. With executive action the next president can change the decision with the stroke of a pen. Which is a huge problem for the environment. Obama signed a climate agreement with 196 nations under executive action. Trump who is now going to be the next president does not believe in climate change. America’s actions have a very big impact on the environment, for example the US is second to china in greenhouse gas emissions which trap in heat, which is one of the causes of climate change. Trump could take away the agreement that Obama signed which could be detrimental to the environment. With Trump being able to change the control of the Supreme Court they could rule for states to decide whether abortion should be legal or not. Which means that in some states abortion could be illegal. This is just a inference though because trump did say he was going to do this, yet it has not happened. Obamacare, a health care system implanted under President Obama, will most likely be taken away or amended under a majority republican government. Also most republicans want to reduce the benefits of social security, which could be a big thing that happens under Trumps presidency. Surprisingly, this election was eerily similar to some elections in the past. The most common one to compare this election to is the Election of 1824. The Election of 1824 was the election between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. During this election, the result was that Jackson had won the most amount of electoral votes, with 99 votes compared to Adams’ 84 votes. However, both had not reached the majority votes in the electoral college so the decision laid in the House of Representatives. Henry Clay, the speaker of the House, was the decision maker in the end. In the end, Clay chose Quincy Adams as the sixth president of the United States. In return, Adams named Clay the secretary of state. This didn’t prove to be a smart choice, since Jackson pinned this as “corrupt bargaining”. Jackson started to present himself as a common man and wanted to further democratization. Similarly, Trump wanted to portray himself as a populist, trying to reach the interest of less educated people, rural men and women, and interests of ordinary people. He claimed that he was partaking in a ‘rigged’ system. Many commenters have seen this. For example:
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The United States presidential election of 2016 was held on November 8th, 2016. Businessman and reality television personality Donald Trump of New York became the Republican Party's presidential nominee. Former Secretary of State and New York Senator Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.This was the first election with a female presidential candidate from a major political party. To win, a candidate had to gain 270 electoral votes in the 538 total votes. Many people predicted that Clinton would win the presidential election. She had President Obama behind her and most millennials voted for her. Clinton won the popular vote but Trump won the electoral votes. On the right upper corner is a map with how millennials voted in 2016. How impressive! Trump may have used the populist way of winning the election. He focused on the rural America, where more uneducated people resided. With the little knowledge that those voters had about Trump, they believed that he could make America better for them. As CNN puts it, “Trump channeled the fury of average Americans against Washington. He tapped into their anxiety about the present and the fear of the future”. Various websites believe one of the main reasons Trump may have won was because many African Americans, Latinos, and young voters failed to show up to propel Clinton forward. However, 88% of African Americans voted for Clinton while 8% voted for Trump. Yet, this was lower than President Obama’s win of 93% of support. The table above demonstrates this. Many whites voted for Trump and less for Clinton. Asians had supported Obama in the past more than they had Clinton. Overall, the Election of 2016 was very hectic and interesting. At 2 AM, Hillary Clinton conceded after seeing the results. Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, 306–232 in pledged electors in the electoral college. At 2:30 AM, Trump took stage and announced that he was president-elect. Assuming Barack Obama serves out his full term, Trump will become the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. 1st presidential debate:
The two candidates debated over the economy, taxes, and terrorism. They both bickered constantly and attacked each other referring to past scandals. Link to the debate: http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004673000/full-video-first-presidential-debate.html 2nd presidential debate: Trump was on the offensive, disagreeing with claims made against him. He also attacked Hilary for situations that occurred while her husband was in the office. Clinton spent the debate defending her record, and said with reason that Donald Trump did not have the temperament to be the president. Link to the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRlI2SQ0Ueg 3rd presidential debate: Trump refused to say he would accept the results of the election if Hilary became president. Trump also argued for his stance on immigration saying, “We have some bad hombres here and we're going to get them out.” The candidates bickered and called each other names throughout the debate. Clinton attacked Trump for his treatment of women. Link to the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGQGwIr47YY Trump has had many different scandals during his campaign to be the president of the United States of America. First there are many sex-assault allegations towards Trump. Many women say Trump assaulted them and Trump continuously denies it. Trump also has many beauty pageant scandals. Trump also has racial housing discrimination scandals. The department of justice sued Trump and his father in 1973 for housing discrimination in New York. Trump also has had the huge scandal of Trump University. He scammed student out of money with a bad education at a university that he started in 2005.
Trump also got bad rap for a tenant intimidation allegation. He did everything he could to get tenants out of apartments that were on land he wanted. Trump also has had four bankruptcies. Another scandal is Trump hiring undocumented polish workers. He is known to have paid them $5 an hour to tear down a building on land Trump wanted to build Trump tower on. The workers worked very unsafely, often without helmets or proper safety equipment. Trump is also known to have done marital rape and known to break casino rules. Trump once wanted to expand his casino business to Atlantic City, so he started buying stock in Holiday and Bally, two casino companies. He attempted to takeover the companies, but his attempt was then stopped by Bally. Trump was also known for his condo hotel scandals. Also he had a scandal with a campaign manager named Corey Lewandowski. A reporter tried to ask Trump a question, but Lewandowski reached out and pusher her out of the way. He was then arrested for battery. Trump also sued journalist Tim O’Brien for libel. O’Brien said that Trump was actually worth $150-200 million dollars, not billions like Trump claimed. The suit was later tossed. Trump is also known for refusing to pay worker and contractors that worked on Trump projects. Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has been well known for one main scandal: Her emails.
Before Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State in 2009, she created a private email address in which she relied on for all her electronic correspondence, both work and personal related. Clinton didn’t activate or use any government servers in her 4 years as S of S. Clinton’s reasoning behind this poor choice was for convenience. She believed that she had preferred to keep track of one email address and one phone rather than multiple phones and email addresses. Clinton had sent around 62,000 emails in her time of S of S, almost half of them official. Clinton has not been the only who engaged in such activity. Colin Powell, S of S under George W Bush explicitly stated that he too had used his private emails during his term, corresponding with foreign leaders as well. Jeb Bush as well relied on his private email. The reason this became huge for Clinton, though, was because she was asking citizens of the United States of America to follow her and wholly trust her. However, she never told anyone she was using a private email network and this made her very trustworthy to the voter. Many emails have been released since 2015, including 7000 of them a few weeks back. Officials have said that what Clinton did was not illegal since the rules always change. The former S of S did not knowingly share classified materials. She even went as far as saying that she never sent or received any classified emails, but many have been retroactive. Clinton has also been harassed on her actions during the Benghazi situation. On September 11th, 2012, four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya. People accused her of inadequately protecting these men. Although she hasn’t released much on her position in this case, this may have been another reason many voters were turned off by her. Democrats:
New York Senator and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, former Governor of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb, and Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig all ran for the Democratic position in the Presidential Race. Prior to the Iowa caucuses, Webb and Chafee withdrew after being consistently polled under 2%. Lessig withdrew after the rules of the debates were changed such that he would no longer qualify. Clinton won her Iowa Caucus and O’Malley dropped after being in a distant third place behind Sanders and Clinton. On June 6th, it was presumed that Clinton was the presumptive Democratic candidate. Hillary Clinton was nominated as the Democratic Presidential Candidate for the 2016 Presidential Election. On June 9th, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator Elizabeth Warren endorsed Clinton. Republicans: Seventeen candidates entered the race to get the republican position for the presidential race. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, Ben Carson of Maryland, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, businesswoman Carly Fiorina of California, former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Governor John Kasich of Ohio, former Governor George Pataki of New York, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, former Governor Rick Perry of Texas, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, businessman Donald Trump of New York and Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin all ran for the party. Before the Iowa caucuses Perry, Walker, Jindal, Graham and Pataki withdrew because of low polling numbers. After Trump won at a New Hampshire primary, Christie, Fiorina and Gilmore left the race. From March 16, 2016 to May 3, 2016, Trump, Cruz and Kasich were the only ones left in the race. Then Cruz suspended his campaign and Trump was declared the presumptive Republican nominee by Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus. So then Kasich dropped out the next day. Democratic: Hillary Clinton: Believed in...
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Economic Background: The dark blue graph, from the White House, gives forecasts for each year and includes the real employment rate of 2016: 4.9%. This has been the lowest rate that’s it’s ever been, as clearly stated in the graph. This means the United States is making good progress on the unemployed. The top table shows the US GDP from 2006-2015. The GDP is 17947 trillion dollars, as it has rose over the past 9 years. The United States population includes about 315 billion people. The other graph shows the interest rate in the US. It has dropped to nearly 0.5%. International crisis: There are some major international crises that have gone in the past year or so. Currently, Brexit and ISIS have been big news. Brexit was the decision that happened in the United Kingdom. The people voted on either leaving or staying in the European Union (E.U.). The outcome to this process was that Britain was going to exit the EU. According to the New York Times, many who favored leaving had problems with “regard to the size and the reach of its bureaucracy, diminishing British influence and sovereignty”. Brexit mattered for the United States because it impacts its economy. As Time reports, the export sector in the USA has suffered from lackluster sales in the slow growth of Europe, as the dollar is now stronger than the euro. Brexit may exacerbate those effects. Britain was formerly the main channel through where America expressed its political and economical will to Europe. Now, with this bond broken, it may be harder for America to conduct things without the main channel. ISIS has also been troubling in the past year. ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and was originally known as al Qaeda. ISIS has been known for terrorist attacks, killing almost 2000 people. It has been said to be ‘a successful militant group’, and according to CNN, it has seized chunks of Iraq and Syria. Racial tensions: This chart was taken from nowblogg and represents the amount of races found in the United States in 2012. The United States is a mix up of many different races, the majority being white. Nearing the election of 2016, racial tension was very high with many different circumstances occurring during the years prior. Throughout American history there has always been tension with the “superior” white people of the united states and african american people or immigrants. After the civil war in the 19th century there was racial segregation that prevented African Americans and other races from being equal to white people. Laws enforced discriminatory acts, however in the 1960’s there was the civil rights movement that led to more rights for African Americans. Even with there being laws to protect minorities tension was still felt. Jobs are harder to get for African Americans and salaries are not as high. Improvement over time have been made yet with a study done by the National Urban League found that black americans were only 72% equal in areas such as economics, social justice, and overall equality. Recently there has been many cases of tension between police and african american citizens, with police often being the cause of African American deaths, which has lead to a movement called “Black Lives Matter.” Over the past decade or so there has been a dramatic growth in Latin American people in the United States. A lot of people immigrated to the United States legally, but a big group of Latin Americans pass through the border between the US and Mexico illegally. Many americans are upset about the border patrol and the cost of deportation. Many americans also blame these illegal immigrants for drugs and crime found near the border. Middle east ISIS is an extremist muslim group found in the middle east. Even though muslim is not a race, there is evident tension between americans and middle eastern people. Many americans believe that muslims are terrorists and must be kept out of the country to protect the United States. |
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