So that makes it hard to predict what his next term will be like, but we can analyse comments he’s made on the campaign trail.
He’s taken a hardline stance on immigration, an important issue for US voters.
He promised a mass deportation of all undocumented migrants if elected, a proposal criticised by both human rights organisations and economists.
During the
, Trump falsely claimed: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
He has since
relating to Haitian immigrants in the Ohio city. There have been no credible reports of Haitians eating pets, and officials in Ohio — including Republicans — have repeatedly said the story is untrue.
Trump made tariffs and tax cuts the key elements of his economic pitch to voters. He has said he would cut federal spending, which Republicans blame for triggering consumer price spikes, and trim back federal regulations.
Democrats made reproductive rights and improving access to abortion
Trump has said the matter should be left to individual states and that he does not support a national ban on the procedure.
He supports exceptions for rape, incest, and to protect the life of the mother and has said he would not block access to abortion medication. He has also expressed support for in vitro fertilisation, or IVF, which some anti-abortion proponents want to ban.
— Madeleine Wedesweiler
