[ot-caption title=”Donald J. Trump is the new president elect. (via Gage Skidmore, CC-BY-SA 3.0)”]

[spacer height=”20px”] Republican nominee Donald John Trump was elected as the 45^th president of the United States on Tuesday, November 8. He won the election with approximately 47.5% of the popular vote.  He received 290 electoral college votes currently since Michigan and New Hampshire are not fully counted yet, but it is expected that he will end up at 306 after likely winning Michigan. He notably took the key states of Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. By comparison, Hillary Clinton, the candidate for the Democratic Party, received 47.7% of the popular vote, and 228 electoral votes with after New Hampshire comes in a projected 232. This race marks the second time since 2000 where it seems likely the losing candidate will have won the popular vote but lost in the the Electoral College. [spacer height=”20px”]

Donald Trump’s platform comprises many historically Republican interpretations of contemporary issues along with others that are not aligned with the traditional party platform. He said he would “rebuild our depleted military” by augmenting the size of the branches of the U.S. armed forces, by implementing cyber warfare initiatives, and by conducting a full-scale audit of the Pentagon. Extending his theme of national defense, he said he will work to defeat  to ISIS by collaborating with Middle-Eastern nations, disrupting the radical group’s networks through direct military intervention and tactile cyberattacks, and temporarily suspending immigration of certain ethnic groups into the United States. His child care reforms center around providing new low-income families with tax credits and providing incentives for employers to provide childcare at the workplace. Trump plans on upholding all the Constitution entails while placing specific emphasis on the Second Amendment. Trump’s 10 Point Plan to Put America First tackles the issue of immigration by stating that “Mexico will pay” for an “impenetrable physical wall on the southern border” and mandating that other countries “take their people back” when they are deported. [spacer height=”20px”]

At around 2:50 a.m. Wednesday morning when it was apparent that Trump was going to win, he gave a victory speech where he congratulated Hillary Clinton on a well run campaign, and declared he “will not let you [the people] down” as President. [spacer height=”20px”]

Sources: DonaldJTrump.com, CNN, Los Angeles Times  Photo: Gage Skidmore