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Mostly the economy (specifically tax cuts and support for domestic oil and gas production), border security, national security and foreign affairs.
What specific policies of Trump's appeal to you in those areas? Particularly national security and foreign affairs?
For national security, a lot of it is securing the southern border. It does have some ties to foreign affairs, part of that is Trump's (relative) strength as a negotiator with world powers. He doesn't get everything he wants all the time, but he is feared to a degree by many leaders, which is important when some of those leaders are our enemies, and he understands how to use leverage in circumstances such as negotiating the release of American hostages from foreign soil. I will say that Trump isn't as good at negotiating as I would like, but at least he has a positive track record on that front, whereas Kamala Harris can't even negotiate the support of the Teamsters lol
If Trump actually cared about securing the border, why did he call Republicans in congress to vote against the border bill that they wrote? Biden was willing to sign it into law until they killed their own bill.
Because it hard arbitrary provisions that would have essentially allowed Joe Biden to pause the border restrictions at his discretion. The assumption was that he would sign the "we fixed the border" bill, then pause restrictions, and act like he did something, and the Republicans weren't willing to give him that optic W.
Could you show where it says that?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2
Because I read it there is nothing that says the president could pause border restrictions.
I lost the link, I had it once and have shared it here when someone else had a similar question. It's been memory holed but if I find it again I'll send it to you.
??? I gave you the link above. You can read it and show me where it says the President can stop the bill.