The Post endorses Donald Trump for president — the clear choice for a better future

Voters transportation a dense responsibility successful this predetermination — 1 of nan astir consequential successful nan history of this awesome nation.

The prime will person reverberations for decades, deciding which of 2 very different paths for nan early Americans will take. 

We must take nan following:

• A unafraid separator and a sensible migration system.
• Safer cities and support for rule and order.
• A thriving, low-tax and low-regulation economy for each — fueled by an power argumentation that supports, not penalizes, manufacture and households.
• Common-sense policies that reconstruct nan powerfulness of parents to take what is champion for their children connected schoolhouse choice, gender room and trans athletes playing successful female sports.
• An America that’s respected connected nan world shape — feared by our enemies and trusted by our allies.

Only 1 campaigner tin credibly declare to lead america there. 

Donald Trump.

The New York Post editorial committee endorsed Donald Trump for president connected Oct. 25, 2024. (New York Post)

If history is immoderate guide, nan way records of nan past 2 administrations supply a intelligibly comparable record. 

To get from Ronald Reagan’s celebrated "Are you amended disconnected now than you were 4 years ago?": Voters should inquire themselves if they were amended disconnected nether Trump aliases Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

His opponents attraction connected really Trump’s management was marked by a relentless soap opera of precocious play and chaos — overmuch of which they fueled. 

And yes, galore find him violative — and we opportunity adjacent enough: He tin beryllium ridiculously hyperbolic. 

But earlier COVID wreaked havoc crossed nan globe, Trump’s first-term results were paychecks that grew markedly faster than inflation, nan lowest unemployment successful 50 years, a unafraid separator and bid overseas.

The Post editorial committee compared nan records of Trump and Harris. (AP/Alex Brandon/Mike Stewart)

In 2021, erstwhile Biden-Harris took over, nan state took a difficult near turn, pinch disastrous results. 

Over these astir 4 years, ostentation has walloped Americans, millions of migrants person crossed nan separator illegally, immoderate cities person been taken complete by gangs and crime, extremist and ridiculous civilization wars complete DEI and gender personality person group neighbour against neighbor. 

Let’s not hide that overshadowing each of this, nan world is connected nan precipice of wide war.

Today, Trump exhibits nan aforesaid spot and vigor arsenic he did successful 2016, contempt nan unprecedented and disgraceful weaponization of nan justness strategy against him, 2 assassination attempts and nan all-too-familiar changeless barrage of panic media attacks connected him.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has rightly been criticized arsenic an underqualified governmental lightweight because she refuses to reply almost immoderate mobility astir nan past 4 years aliases uncover immoderate elaborate early argumentation plans.   

What whitethorn besides beryllium conscionable arsenic existent is that she doesn’t want nan American group to cognize nan afloat standard of her extremist plans, because it would scare them off.

The Post editorial committee calls Harris a "San Francisco progressive." (AP/Morry Gash)

Indeed, immoderate adjacent study of her grounds shows it to beryllium that of a San Francisco progressive.

If she wins, Harris will not only co-opt Bidenism but accelerate nan progressive hurricane ripping done nan cloth of American society. 

Voters this autumn will determine if nan early of our state bends toward prosperity, security, freedom, opportunity and innovation.

Or instrumentality pinch ruinous large authorities largesse, deliberately divisive policies, appeasement and stagnation.

Trump wants to free businesses from choking regulations and trim taxes for workers.

Harris would consequence making ostentation worse pinch moreover much authorities "freebies" to typical interests — paid for pinch inflation-feeding indebtedness aliases job-killing taxes.

Donald Trump is nan correct choice.

Trump wants to assistance restrictions connected lipid and state accumulation and "Drill, baby, drill" — boosting America’s power independency and making nan world little reliant connected nan West-hating Russia and Iran.

Harris co-sponsored nan extremist Green New Deal successful nan Senate, which poured billions of dollars down nan drain, and boasted astir her warfare connected "Big Oil" connected her run website. 

Trump treated Iran for illustration nan panic sponsor it is — withdrawing from nan sham atomic deal, tightening sanctions and taking retired apical commandant Qassem Soleimani. 

Meanwhile, Biden-Harris person placated nan ayatollahs clip and again, while kneecapping Israel, emboldening Tehran and its proxies. 

The load is dense on our shoulders this November. 

But Trump and Harris want to return america down very different roads — making nan prime stark and simple, but vital. 

Donald Trump is nan correct choice.