Donald Trump wins the presidency, again

Donald Trump won the presidency as the electoral votes came rolling in on Tuesday Nov. 5. Trump won 312 electoral votes, while Vice President Kamala Harris received 226. Trump won the electoral votes of all seven swing states.

The Associated Press is projecting that Trump has also claimed the popular vote in this election, which he failed to do in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.

This marks the second time that an American president will have served two nonconsecutive terms. The only other president to have done so was Grover Cleveland, who was president from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897.

Trump will also be the first convicted felon to hold the presidential office.

Some of the policies that Trump has said he will implement can be found on his official campaign website in a policy platform titled “Agenda 47.” According to Agenda 47, Trump will “Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion,” “Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history,” “End inflation, and make America affordable again,” “stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower,” among other items.

In terms of inflation and manufacturing, the Biden administration has already set much of the groundwork for Trump’s economic agenda.

By taking practical measures like increasing interest rates, the federal government under the Biden administration has brought year-over-year inflation in the United States down to 2.4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Monthly border encounters are down significantly — roughly 34%, according to Customs and Border Patrol — since December of last year.

President Biden also helped to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the CHIPS and Science Act. These bills created funding for infrastructure and manufacturing across the United States. For example, the Port of Alaska — located near Downtown Anchorage — received $68.7 million for modernization from the federal government through the Infrastructure and Jobs Act.

These post-COVID economic foundations set in place by the Biden administration might prove useful for Trump.

Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025.