What effect if any will the election have on gen aviation?
My guess is not much. Both candidates are heavy users of private aviation, just as most any serious national candidate must be to cover the grpund.
Trump owns his own planes and Hillary charters.
I have a friend who used to fly Bill Clinton around when he was running for gov in Ark, in a Cessna, think it was a 185 or similar. He said Bill was a good passenger, usually reading or doing work enroute, not weather shy just wanting to get there.
We have had candidates who were pilots, believe John Kerry is and in office they were not always kind to gen av. I think both the last Pres proposed extra gen av tax or even privatizing the FAA, not sure about that.
In a lecture at Osh Sen, Inhoff claimed that Trump told him he would be an advocate for private av, but not sure if that means corporate jets or our kind of smaller aviation. And Inhoff is on one far end of the spectrum, so that grain of salt must be kept in mind.
In the end, I doubt much will change, and moslty hope not. We are ok like it is and could be worse.
And havent heard of pilots having trouble with TFRs during the campaigns.