By Levi Lester Posted October 14, 2016
To many, it may be surprising that the presidential race is as close as it is. Most polls have the race within four percentage points. This is in spite of Hillary Clinton’s (D) performance in the September 26 debate.
In addition, Donald Trump (R) has stumbled recently with the release of a recording of his lewd comments about women. There have also been calls from Republican leaders for him to withdraw from the race. No matter which side you support, the final few weeks of the campaign should be entertaining.
Some would say the debates are nothing but middle-aged adults bickering at each other and not explaining their policies and plans of action to fix America. Others would say the opposite with their opinions on the two candidates being stated more clearly, yet still wanting more.
With the recent shootings in Charlotte, North Carolina raising tensions between the African American community and local police officers, the bombings in New York and New Jersey having been attributed to ISIS, the national debt still rising to a near staggering $20 trillion dollars, millions of Americans on food stamps and out of work and struggling to support their families; Americans are looking to the two candidates to fix these problems and help keep America safe from terrorist acts and strengthen America as a whole.
Social Studies teacher Mr. Grant Beatty is following the election.
“My opinion on the election is I think we have two candidates who have some big major flaws and I just think whichever one we get stuck with it’s going to be a challenge and I’m not really looking forward to it and that’s that,” said Beatty.
Trump, the Republican nominee, with plans to rebuild America and fix the mistakes made during the presidency of Barack Obama and Clinton who was the Secretary of State. Trump focuses primarily on immigration, trade, defeating ISIS, foreign policy, law and order, national security, putting Americans back to work, and rebuilding the economy (according to Trump’s website plans). Trump plans on getting 25 million Americans back to work by adding a 1% growth to the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) which for each percentage increase adds 1.2 million jobs to the economy and increases the growth by 1.5 percent over the course of 10 years would result in 18 million jobs and including the estimated 7 million law job figures making 25 million jobs overall.
Trump will have reform policies with a pro-growth tax plan which will act as an America-First trade policy, and an unleashed American energy plan alongside a “penny plan.” The actions Trump will take to fix our broken immigration system on the very first day of his presidency is to build a wall on the southern border of the U.S. and have Mexico pay for the wall. The “catch-and-release” system will be taken out of effect immediately and any illegals will be detained and removed from the country.
All means of transportation systems are to have enter-exit advanced screening systems, remove sanctuary cities, terminate Obama’s non-enforcement policies, and take the initiative to not allow illegals to come and work illegally in the U.S. America’s veterans will be another priority Trump will tackle by ensuring the physical and mental health as a whole for veterans across our country try.
With many regulations being made by the establishment to hurt our economy and make families pay more than they can afford Trump has his mapped-out ideas to fix these regulations. Benefiting working families while ensuring the wealthy pay their fair share and renegotiation of NAFTA. Another important topic is that of energy and Trump plans to make American energy dominance to be declared a strategic economic and foreign policy goal of the United States. Having many plans of action to make a reality for Americans Trump still has Clinton to compete with for the key battleground states left to win the 270 electoral votes needed to become the President.
The well-known Secretary of State Clinton who had been working under President Barack Obama and ran for the Democratic nomination against Obama in 2008 is now the Democratic nominee. Clinton has laid out many plans for her ideals to work with the American people and build a strong America like never before (according to Clinton’s website plans).
Differing from some of Trump’s plans Clinton will reach out to the LGBT community of Americans and fight for full federal equality, intensify the coalition air campaign against ISIS fighters, leaders, and infrastructure, confront violence against women, and support women’s rights in the wage gap to close it, impose a risk fee on the largest financial institutions, invest in clean energy infrastructure, innovation, manufacturing and workforce development, bringing law enforcement and communities together to develop national guidelines on the use of force by police officers, and many other important issues that grip our nation.
With the two candidates battling for the presidency the infamous scandals that surround Clinton of the 30,000 deleted emails on her private server and Clinton’s foundation relating to the Benghazi incident and Whitewater, many Americans look to Trump to see his side to find unreleased tax returns not being made public due to audits and his lawyers telling him not to release them.
Trust in these two candidates wavers from who will be honest about their past and make things right with the American people. With the presidential election closing in this November, all eyes are on Clinton and Trump. With Trump’s Vice President Mark Pence and Clinton’s VP Tim Kaine set in motion to be their right-hand man the American people may change their vote by being swayed by the influence of their plans to support their POTUS’ to lead this nation.
