Stephen Grover Cleveland was a first in American history. He was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States serving 1885 — 1889 and 1893 —1897.
Cleveland lost the 1888 presidential election to Republican Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana. Four years later, the Democrat party nominated Cleveland for president for the third time to run against the incumbent, Harrison, making the 1892 presidential election a rematch of the one just four years prior.
The 1892 election was, according to Cleveland biographer Allan Nevins, “the cleanest, quietest, and most creditable in the memory of the post-war generation.”
Due to his wife dying from tuberculosis, Harrison did not campaign for the presidency. Caroline Harrison died on October 25, two weeks before the election. After her death, Cleveland stopped campaigning.
This presidential election, history will repeat itself. For the first time in 132 years, voters will have the opportunity to choose between two candidates, knowing how they will run the country.
Because the Democrat party dumped President Joseph Biden this summer and put Vice-President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, we don’t have an exact duplicate of 1892. But Harris confessed on The View earlier this month that “she couldn’t think of anything she’d have done differently than President Joe Biden during the last four years.”
Here is a list of Biden’s failures that, in hindsight, Harris says she would have also done.
First, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan where, in a CNN interview this past April, Harris said she was the “last person in the room” with Biden when he decided to pull all troops out of Afghanistan.
Next is Biden’s policies at the southern border. In an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, Harris refused to explain anything she would have done differently than Biden with immigration policies, which allowed over 7.2 million illegals to enter our country. During Biden’s first year in office, border crossings were 1,734,686, a low during his presidency. That is more than quadruple the last year under President Donald Trump.
Vice President Harris broke two ties in the Senate that helped fuel the worst inflation in over 40 years: the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act.
Since Biden-Harris took office, mortgage rates have risen 156 percent, rent 22 percent, gas 35 percent, eggs 53 percent, baby food 30 percent, and the list goes on. Overall, inflation has increased 19 percent in the first 42 months of Biden’s term compared with 6 percent during the same time with Trump.
Foreign policies by Biden-Harris — including releasing $6 billion in frozen funds to Iran — have helped fuel war in the Middle-East and Ukraine.
Under Biden-Harris, crime is up. The FBI released new data two weeks ago showing violent crime in 2022 was up 4.5 percent — not down 2.1 percent, as shown in a previous report. This latest report shows a net increase of 80,029 violent crimes, including 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults.
There were more failures of the Biden-Harris administration, but I want to move on to accomplishments during Trump’s first term that you may have forgotten.
During the Obama Presidency the terrorist organization ISIS was formed. Under the strong leadership of the Trump administration, the ISIS caliphate was defeated, and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed on Oct. 26, 2019.
Trump encouraged NATO member countries to pay their fair share. As a result, NATO allies spent $69 billion more on defense in 2020 than in 2016.
In January 2020, Trump replaced the outdated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), fulfilling his promise to deliver a fairer trade agreement for America.
Information from the Census Bureau reported in 2020 that real median household income grew to $68,703 in 2019, an increase of 6.8 percent over 2018. In comparison, under Biden-Harris real median household income declined 2.2 percent from 2022 to 2023, falling from $76,330 to $74,580 in 2022-dollar terms. Real median post-tax income was down 8.8 percent in 2023 relative to 2021.
The percentage of growth in income under Trump was more significant for Blacks, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans.
Also, in 2019, the poverty rate dropped 1.3 percentage points to a 60-year low of 10.5 percent, removing 4.1 million people from poverty. During the Obama/Biden administration, the number of people living in poverty increased by 787,000.
This growth was made possible, in part, by Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. No Democrat voted for this bill. Harris wants to increase corporate taxes and let the Trump tax cuts expire on Dec. 31, 2025.
Disability claims, which rose under Obama dropped under Trump.
Before the coronavirus almost 3.9 million Americans had been lifted off food stamps.
Trump eliminated a record number of burdensome, job-crushing regulations making it easier for businesses to grow and employ more people.
At the beginning of 2020, the unemployment rate was at its lowest point in 50 years, with black unemployment at an all-time low.
Trump accomplished this — and much more — all while being relentlessly attacked by Democrats, starting before his inauguration.
At a Pennsylvania church on Sunday, Harris attempted to contrast herself against “those who seek to deepen division, to spread hate, to sow fear.” Earlier in the week, at a town hall meeting hosted on CNN, she compared Trump to Hitler. Harris has also called Trump unhinged and a threat to Democracy. A great example of a hypocrite.
We know what a Harris term will look like, but I’m not sure we can survive it.
We also know what a second Trump term would look like because we enjoyed the benefits of the first: peace and prosperity.
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