(LifeSiteNews) — Republican former President Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election and defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Candidates needed 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. Trump defeated Harris 312-226.
Polling showed a close race between Trump and Harris, though Trump led in most swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, and he significantly outperformed polling averages in the 2020 and 2016 elections.
In addition to the presidential election, Americans went to the polls on Tuesday to decide control of the U.S. House and Senate and to vote on radical pro-abortion ballot measures in 10 states.
Pro-abortion constitutional amendments failed in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota but succeeded in Arizona, Montana, and Missouri, as well as predictably liberal Colorado, Maryland, Nevada, and New York.
Republicans are projected to win control of the Senate, though control of the House is not known yet.
Life, family, religious liberty at stake
Trump and Harris, who had replaced 81-year-old Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket less than four months ago, have sharply contrasting platforms and records, though Trump has taken a leftward shift on abortion in recent months.
Harris, a former U.S. senator from California who was ranked the most liberal member of the Senate and had a 100 percent pro-abortion voting record, made abortion the centerpiece of her campaign and pledged to sign a federal law that would legalize unrestricted abortion in all 50 states.
Harris endorsed the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” a Democratic bill that would declare abortion throughout pregnancy a national “right” and invalidate hundreds of state and local pro-life laws. Unlike Trump, she even opposes religious exemptions.
Harris also ran as a militant supporter of all aspects of the LGBT movement, including “gender transitions” for minors, taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries, drag queens, and LGBT indoctrination of children in schools, and has said that she would sign the pro-LGBT “Equality Act.”
Harris, an early proponent of homosexual “marriage,” was strongly backed by LGBT activist groups.
Trump opposes underage “transitions,” LGBT ideology in schools, and allowing gender-confused males to compete in women’s sports and use female bathrooms but supports homosexual “marriage.” The Republican former president has vowed to criminalize “transitioning” minors without parental consent and to ban federally funded healthcare providers from subjecting children to transgender drugs and surgeries, among other actions.
Trump, who had a pro-life record as president, has said that he would not sign a federal abortion ban or prohibit abortion pills and has embraced in vitro fertilization (IVF) while upholding Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and once again allows states to ban abortion. In February, nearly 90,000 babies were estimated to have been saved so far due to the Dobbs ruling.
Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who voted to reverse Roe v. Wade and will likely have the opportunity to appoint more justices, especially now that Republicans will control the Senate.
Trump has criticized some state pro-life laws, including Florida’s six-week abortion ban, but confirmed in August that he planned to vote against the unsuccessful pro-abortion constitutional amendment in the state that sought to nullify the law. He has additionally suggested that he would ban international taxpayer funding for abortion.
Trump also vowed to support religious liberty, parental rights, and freedom of speech and pledged to defend homeschooling and end the Biden-Harris administration’s collusion with social media platforms to censor posts.
Harris, however, has a record of targeting Catholics, and as attorney general of California, prosecuted Catholic pro-life journalist David Daleiden after he released videos that showed Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts. As a member of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, she suggested that a judicial nominee should be disqualified due to his involvement in the Knights of Columbus, citing the Catholic organization’s opposition to abortion and homosexual “marriage.”
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the Department of Justice has selectively enforced the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to target peaceful Catholic pro-life advocates like Mark Houck and Paulette Harlow, and the FBI was found to have surveilled churches that celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass.
Trump has slammed the administration for jailing pro-lifers and promised to pardon them if re-elected.
The Biden-Harris administration has also tried to force hospitals and doctors to commit abortions and facilitate the surgical mutilation of gender-confused children, in a reversal of Trump administration policy.
Moreover, child sex trafficking has skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration due to its open borders policies, which Trump has said he will repeal, in addition to imposing the death penalty on “child rapists and child traffickers.”
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Like Harris, her running mate, Tim Walz, has extreme pro-abortion and pro-LGBT stances. As governor of Minnesota, signed a law that legalized abortion up to birth and repealed Minnesota’s parental notification requirement and ban on coerced abortion. Walz also signed an executive order and a law to protect “gender transitions” for children.