President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off against each other in the U.S. presidential election on November 5 in what looks to be a divisive and bitter contest. A number of third-party candidates are also running.
Here is the list of candidates:
republican party
Donald Trump: Trump, who served from 2017 to 2021, has secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination, setting up the first presidential rematch in nearly 70 years.
He used unprecedented legal challenges to solidify support among his base and ran for the White House for a third time, in part as revenge against perceived political opponents. He called supporters “hostages” imprisoned for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and campaigned using increasingly dystopian rhetoric, refusing to rule out the possibility of violence during the Nov. 5 campaign. .
Trump, 77, faces 88 charges in four criminal cases, including attempts to subvert the 2020 election, withholding classified documents after leaving office and allegedly covering up hush-money payments to porn stars.
He has denied wrongdoing in all cases, including a criminal trial over hush money payments that begins April 15 in New York and is likely to be the only one of four cases to go to a jury before the Nov. 5 election.
He has called the criminal charges a Democratic conspiracy to prevent him from winning, and some of his legal challenges have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Justice Department denies any political interference. Trump vowed revenge on his political opponents if reelected to a four-year term and said he would not become a dictator except “on day one,” later calling it “a joke.” He also wants the power to replace federal civil servants with loyalists. He said he might not accept the election results if he loses in November. Trump said the United States would not protect Nato members that underspend on defense and would encourage Russia to attack them, a move that sparked criticism from Western leaders. He also urged congressional Republicans to suspend military aid to Ukraine and then reverse course. Trump has made immigration a top issue of his domestic campaign, announcing that he would carry out mass deportations, create internment camps, use the National Guard and possibly federal troops, end birthright citizenship and expand travel bans on people from certain countries. He called immigrants “animals” and did not rule out the possibility of establishing detention camps on U.S. soil. On the abortion issue, Trump credits the U.S. Supreme Court with overturning Roe v. Wade and said in April that abortion should remain a state issue. While he has criticized actions in some Republican-led states, such as Florida’s six-week abortion ban, he said he would allow Republican-led states to track women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate state bans.
He promised sweeping changes, including eliminating Obamacare health insurance, then said in an April 11 video that he would not “end” the coverage. He also vowed to undo much of the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change. Trump has yet to announce a vice presidential running mate, but has floated several possibilities. Mike Pence, who campaigned with Trump in 2016 and 2020 but was targeted by Trump and his supporters in the January 6 attacks, declined to join the race in November support him.
Democratic Party
Joe Biden: Biden launched his 2020 candidacy to defend American freedom and democracy, and views his re-election campaign in the same light, saying Trump threatens the future of American democracy.
Biden won the party’s nomination in March but does not face any serious challenges. The November election will be even tougher, with the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showing Biden with a slight lead among registered voters at 40%, 1 percentage point ahead of Trump at 39%. At 81 years old, Biden is already the oldest president in U.S. history. He must convince voters that he is more suitable to serve as president than Trump, who is only four years younger than him, while also dealing with low approval ratings.
The economy will also impact Biden’s re-election bid. Although the United States has emerged from an expected recession and is growing faster than economists expected, inflation and the cost of essential goods are weighing on voters. Biden has pushed for a massive stimulus and infrastructure spending package to boost U.S. industrial output, but so far his campaign has highlighted new semiconductor manufacturing plants, housing plans and other economic efforts with little success. Voter approval. Biden’s handling of immigration policy has drawn criticism from both Republicans and Democrats as migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border hit record highs.
He led Western governments’ response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, convincing allies to punish Russia and support Kiev. Biden has provided military aid to Israel in its conflict with Hamas in Gaza while pushing for more humanitarian aid, but he has been criticized for not pushing harder for a ceasefire or turning his tougher rhetoric against Israel into action. It was sharply criticized by some Democrats. He said he would seize Israeli weapons if Israel invaded Rafah.
Increasing U.S. student protests over the Gaza war could also affect his re-election bid, with some organizers behind the Uncommitted movement gaining some support from Biden in the primaries and now seeking to join forces with campus protesters . Biden secured additional funding for Ukraine and Israel in April after a months-long battle with congressional Republicans.
Marianne Williamson: Less than a month after dropping out of the race, 71-year-old best-selling author and self-help guru Marianne Williamson has relaunched her 2024 presidential campaign with a focus on “justice and love.”
In a statement in February, she said she would return to work with Trump’s “dark and authoritarian vision” after earlier suspending it over losing the “horse race.” “Fight.
Williamson previously ran in the 2020 presidential primary as a Democrat but dropped out of the race before the vote.
independent
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, 70, is an anti-vaccine activist and environmental advocate who is now running as an independent after initially challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination. While Kennedy trails in overall polls, he could steal votes from Trump and Biden, with the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showing he has support from 8% of registered voters, up from March dropped by 7 percentage points. Kennedy is the son of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 while running for president. Kennedy has been denounced by prominent families who have publicly supported Biden. Kennedy chose as his running mate Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy attorney who supports Israel and has questioned the six-week ceasefire that Biden supports.
He said he views the situation at the U.S. southern border as a humanitarian crisis and opposes Trump’s construction of a border wall. He also vowed to repeal parts of Biden’s climate bill related to tax breaks that he said would help the oil industry. Kennedy took different positions on abortion rights, including limiting when women could have abortions. He told Reuters he believed every abortion was a “tragedy” but that it should be a woman’s right “throughout her pregnancy.” He has been criticized for years for making false medical claims about vaccines, but he said he would still allow Americans to get them. His campaign said in May that he himself had brain worm more than a decade ago but has fully recovered.
Kennedy has officially entered the ballot in a handful of states so far, including California, Michigan and Utah, and faces a challenging and costly battle to get to all 50 states.
Cornel West
The political activist, philosopher and scholar is running for president on a third-party ticket most likely to appeal to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 70, originally ran as a Green Party candidate, but in October he said people “want good policy and not partisan politics” and announced he was running as an independent. He promised to end poverty and secure housing.
jirstein
Doctor Jill Stein, who ran under the Green Party in 2016, will try again in 2024.
She launched her current campaign accusing Democrats of “betraying their commitments to working people, young people, and climate time and time again—commitments that Republicans never even made in the first place.”
After Trump’s surprise victory in 2016, Stein, 73, raised millions of dollars for the recount. Her allegation resulted in just one election review in Wisconsin, which showed Trump winning.