By Susan Heavey, Costas Pitas
(Reuters) -Republican former President Donald Trump will face Vice President Kamala Harris within the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid.
A number of third-party hopefuls are additionally operating. Here’s a listing of the candidates.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
DONALD TRUMP
Trump, 78, secured the Republican nomination at his occasion’s July conference in Milwaukee, simply days after surviving an assassination try at a marketing campaign rally.
Trump has continued to repeat his false declare that Democrats stole the 2020 election as he makes his third bid for the White Home amid unprecedented authorized challenges, together with a recent indictment over efforts to subvert his 2020 loss.
In workplace from 2017 to 2021, he has solid his indictments in 4 legal circumstances as a political assault in opposition to him and his supporters, vowing “retribution” in opposition to perceived political enemies and embracing more and more dystopian rhetoric.
Trump turned the primary former U.S. president to be convicted of a criminal offense in Could, in New York, and nonetheless faces U.S. and Georgia state costs over efforts to subvert the 2020 election. He was additionally the primary president to be impeached twice.
Separate allegations of illegally holding categorized paperwork after leaving workplace had been dismissed by a federal decide, however prosecutors have appealed. He denies any wrongdoing.
The remaining circumstances are unlikely to achieve trial earlier than the November election, whereas a New York decide delayed the sentencing for Trump’s conviction over falsifying paperwork to cowl up a fee.
Trump, who selected U.S. Senator JD (NASDAQ:) Vance of Ohio as his operating mate, has refused to decide to accepting the 2024 election outcomes or to rule out potential political violence, and he’s laying the groundwork to contest a possible election loss. He has additionally threatened to prosecute election officers, donors and others if he’s elected once more.
Trump is the oldest U.S. presidential nominee and could be the nation’s second oldest president if he wins in November, following Biden, who shall be 82 when his time period ends subsequent January.
Trump has vowed to pardon supporters imprisoned for the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, calling them “warriors.” He would additionally search the ability to interchange federal civil service staff with loyalists.
A consortium of Trump-friendly assume tanks touts a sweeping coverage agenda generally known as “Project 2025” focusing on variety applications and the Justice Division’s independence, amongst different plans. Trump has sought to distance himself from the undertaking regardless of the involvement of many former aides.
On overseas coverage, Trump has vowed to basically alter the U.S. relationship with NATO and to resolve the Ukraine conflict with potential peace talks which may require Kyiv to cede territory.
Trump has made immigration a prime home marketing campaign subject, promising mass deportations, an finish to birthright citizenship and an expanded journey ban on folks from sure international locations, amongst different actions.
On abortion, he takes credit score for the U.S. Supreme Court docket ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, and says legal guidelines regulating abortion needs to be left to states. Trump stated he doesn’t assist banning contraception.
He has additionally vowed to undo a lot of the Biden administration’s work to combat local weather change. Trump has confronted criticism, together with from fellow Republicans, for private assaults in opposition to Harris, together with over her race.
Trump appointed former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his transition staff after Kennedy suspended his impartial bid for the presidency.
He vowed to place billionaire Elon Musk, who has endorsed him, in control of a authorities effectivity panel. The Nationwide Fraternal Order of Police and a number of other different police teams have additionally backed his election bid.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KAMALA HARRIS
Harris, 59, received the Democratic Celebration’s nomination after Biden ended his reelection bid, permitting Democrats to current a special American imaginative and prescient in distinction to Trump’s agenda as they kicked off their conference and sought to revive their coalition of younger voters, folks of coloration and suburban girls.
Biden’s exit and endorsement of Harris adopted weeks of occasion upheaval after his weak efficiency within the June 27 debate with Trump. Harris and Trump debate on Tuesday night time.
Harris, a former U.S. senator, California legal professional basic and native prosecutor, turned the primary girl and individual of coloration to function vp after Biden chosen her as his operating mate within the 2020 election. She would grow to be the primary girl to function president within the nation’s 248-year historical past if she wins.
Polls present Harris is in an in depth race in opposition to Trump.
She leads the previous president nationally 45% to 41% in a Reuters/Ipsos survey revealed on Aug. 29. A July Reuters/Ipsos ballot gave Harris a one-percentage level lead.
Current surveys additionally present Harris and her operating mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, gaining floor in a number of battleground states and over points comparable to crime and the economic system. However within the seven battleground states that would resolve the election – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada – Trump had a forty five% to 43% lead over Harris amongst registered voters within the August Reuters/Ipsos survey.
Harris is predicted to stay largely to Biden’s overseas coverage playbook on key points comparable to Ukraine, China and Iran. She has additionally pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a Gaza ceasefire deal however has additionally taken a tough line in opposition to Hamas, saying the militant group have to be “eliminated”, and stays dedicated to the U.S. coverage of arming Israel.
She has laid out an financial plan that features proposals to chop taxes for many People, ban what she says is “price gouging” by grocers, construct extra reasonably priced housing and introduce a brand new youngster tax credit score.
She has additionally proposed rising the company tax fee to twenty-eight% from 21%. Her local weather and power positions are additionally much like these held by Biden, who has made combating local weather change a prime precedence.
Harris has been seen as tech-friendly at the same time as she took on alleged anticompetitive and privateness points, and he or she has sought to reassure donors that she backs capitalism.
The leaders of key labor teams, together with the Service Workers Worldwide Union, the United Auto Staff and the American Federation of Academics, have endorsed her presidential bid. Former U.S. navy officers and firm executives additionally publicly backed her.
INDEPENDENTS
CORNEL WEST
The political activist, thinker and tutorial is making a third-party bid for president that geared toward interesting to extra progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 71, initially ran as a Inexperienced Celebration candidate however in October stated folks “want good policies over partisan politics” and declared himself an impartial. He has promised to finish poverty and assure housing.
GREEN PARTY
JILL STEIN
Stein, 74, a doctor who ran underneath the Inexperienced Celebration in 2016, is making an attempt as soon as once more in 2024.
She launched her present marketing campaign accusing Democrats of betraying their guarantees “for working people, youth and the climate again and again – while Republicans don’t even make such promises in the first place.”
LIBERTARIAN PARTY
CHASE OLIVER
Whereas the Libertarian Celebration invited each Trump and Kennedy to talk at its conference in late Could, it finally chosen Oliver, 39. Oliver ran for a Georgia state Senate seat in 2022 and garnered 2% of the vote.
