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US states are responsible for elections and thankfully there isn’t one nationwide mail-ballot mailing date.

With the November midterms roughly 80 days away, federal moves on election administration are drawing scrutiny from voting rights groups and pushback from some Republican-led states, even as the Trump administration says the actions are needed to secure the vote.

Do you remember the US Mexico Wall? What about draining the swamp? There's no single agreed-upon number and trackers differ by scope and method, but PolitiFact's MAGA-Meter, the most systematic of the bunch, is tracking 75 specific second-term pledges. As of early 2026, roughly 20 percent were rated kept, about 45 percent in the works, nearly 30 percent stalled, with a small remainder broken or compromised. A slightly later read from Poynter, citing the same tracker, put "kept" closer to 19 percent, with about a third stalled by inaction in Congress or the courts, including the Supreme Court.
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Other outlets tell a similar story with different math. Factually's research summary notes there's no single authoritative broken-promises count — estimates range from a handful of high-profile broken pledges to dozens, depending on whether you're counting Day-1 promises, first-100-days promises, or the full 2024 campaign menu. AllSides is running its own tracker mapped against Project 2025, and a independent site called Trump Tracker rates items Kept/Partial/Broken/Pending against Project 2025, the 2024 campaign platform, executive orders, CBO data, and the Federal Register, reviewed monthly.
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Bottom line for a broadcast: "about 1 in 5 kept, roughly 1 in 3 stalled, most of the rest still in progress" is a defensible, sourced summary line.
Immigration — the clearest "kept" case, good for a script
Trump entered his second term with one of the most expansive sets of campaign promises in modern presidential history. Immigration is the area with the most measurable follow-through: mass deportations ran into the hundreds of thousands, and border crossings fell from over 200,000 a month to roughly 8,000 by spring 2025 (per DHS figures I cited earlier). That gives you a clean, factual segment. LegalClarity

He claimed he would get tired of winning. Perhaps he mean whining instead. He sued 30 states and DC to seize our private voter files, birthdate, address, Social Security number, and it keeps getting thrown out of court. Trump’s own Judge Kari Dooley slammed the door in Connecticut, and the information stayed exactly where it belongs.

From the Gipper to the Groper - Forget about it, which name is more popular, Ronald or Donald?