Three Republican candidates are jostling to be their party’s nominee in the 2024 presidential election, while President Joe Biden is the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, and several third-party candidates have joined the fray.
Here is a list of candidates.
DONALD ATOUT
Trump took his indictments in four separate criminal cases – unprecedented for a former US president – and exploited them to increase his popularity with Republicans and raise funds, helping to make him the Republican frontrunner with 49% in the latest election. Reuters/Ipsos poll. He won the party’s first nomination race in Iowa, winning more than half the vote. Trump, 77, called the indictments a political witch hunt aimed at thwarting his pursuit of a second four-year term, a claim the Justice Department has denied. If re-elected, Trump has vowed revenge on his perceived enemies and has adopted increasingly authoritarian language, including saying he would only be a dictator “from day one.” He promised other sweeping changes, including abolishing the federal civil service to install loyalists and imposing stricter immigration policies, such as mass deportations and ending birthright. He also promised to eliminate Obamacare health insurance and impose tighter restrictions on trade with China.
NIKKI HALEY
Haley, 51, a former governor of South Carolina and Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, noted her relative youth compared to Biden, 81, and Trump, as well as her background as the daughter of Indian immigrants.
Haley has earned a reputation within the Republican Party as a strong conservative, able to address issues of gender and race more credibly than many of her peers. She also presented herself as a strong defender of U.S. interests abroad and argued that Trump’s management style was too chaotic and divisive to be effective.
She had 12% support among Republicans, according to the Reuters/Ipsos survey and placed third in Iowa. In state-level polls, Haley has generally led rival Ron DeSantis in South Carolina and New Hampshire.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has positioned himself to Trump’s right on several key social issues like abortion, but his campaign has struggled to gain traction and, alongside other candidates, remains far behind the former president in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll with 11%.
DeSantis, 45, placed second in Iowa, where his campaign had been heavily targeted. He has laid off staff and restarted his campaign several times in an effort to strengthen his candidacy.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
JOE BIDEN
Biden, 81, already the oldest US president ever, will have to convince voters he has the stamina to stay in office for another four years, amid concerns about his age and poor performance ratings. ‘approval. Biden’s allies say he believes he is the only Democratic candidate capable of defeating Trump. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll puts him at 35%, the same level of support as Trump. In announcing his candidacy, Biden said his role was to defend American democracy and cited the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. Vice President Kamala Harris is once again his running mate. The economy will be a factor in his re-election campaign. While the United States has escaped an expected recession and is growing faster than economists expected, inflation in 2022 reached its highest level in 40 years and the cost of food and gasoline weighs on voters.
Biden led Western governments’ response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, persuading their allies to sanction Moscow and support kyiv, and he supported Israel in its conflict with Hamas militants in Gaza.
However, he has faced sharp criticism from some in his party for not supporting calls for a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory, where Gaza health authorities say more than 23 000 people have been killed, thousands of buildings have been damaged or destroyed and residents do not have enough food. food, water and medical supplies. At home, he pushed through massive economic recovery plans and infrastructure spending to boost U.S. industrial production, although his second goal received little recognition from voters. Biden’s handling of immigration policy has been criticized by Republicans and Democrats as migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have reached record levels under his administration.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Best-selling author and self-help guru Marianne Williamson, 71, launched her second long-shot bid for the White House on an agenda of “justice and love.” She ran as a Democrat in the 2020 presidential primary, but dropped out of the race before any votes were cast. She launched her latest campaign on March 23 and will be on the ballot in the New Hampshire primary.
DEAN PHILLIPS
Dean Phillips, a little-known U.S. congressman from Minnesota, announced in October that he would mount a long-shot challenge to Biden because he does not believe the president can win another term. The 54-year-old millionaire businessman and co-founder of the ice cream company announced his offer in a one-minute video posted online, saying: “We have challenges ahead of us. … We will fix this economy, and we’re going to fix America.”
INDEPENDENTS
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR
An anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 70, is running as an independent after initially challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination, but he is far behind in the polls.
But recent Reuters/Ipsos polls show that Kennedy could harm Biden more than Trump in the presidential election, where third-party candidates have influenced the outcome of the U.S. election even without winning. It gained support from 18% of respondents when it was included as an option in the latest survey. He is the son of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 during his own bid for the presidency. Kennedy was banned from Instagram for spreading misinformation about vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic, but was later reinstated.
He lost a legal attempt to force YouTube owner Google to reinstate videos of him questioning the safety of COVID vaccines.
CORNEL WEST
The political activist, philosopher and academic said in June that he would launch a third-party bid for president that would appeal to progressive and Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 70, initially ran as a Green Party candidate, but in October he said people “want good policies rather than partisan politics” and announced his candidacy as an independent. He promised to end poverty and guarantee housing.
JILL STEIN
Jill Stein, a physician, reaffirmed her Green Party candidacy for 2016 on November 9, accusing Democrats of betraying their promises “for workers, for youth and for the climate, over and over again – while Republicans don’t even such promises during the first mandate”. place.”
Stein, 73, raised millions of dollars for the recount after Trump’s surprise victory in 2016. His allegations resulted in only one election review in Wisconsin, which showed Trump won.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Susan Heavey; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
