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 Democratic President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid.
A number of third-party hopefuls are additionally working. Listed below are the candidates.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KAMALA HARRIS
Harris, 59, received the Democratic Occasion’s nomination after Biden ended his reelection bid, permitting Democrats to current a renewed American imaginative and prescient in distinction to Trump’s agenda as they search to revive their coalition of younger voters, folks of shade and suburban girls.
A former U.S. senator, California legal professional basic and San Francisco prosecutor, Harris grew to become the primary lady and individual of shade to function vice chairman after Biden chosen her as his 2020 working mate. She would develop into the primary lady 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 46% to 43%, in line with a Sept. 20-23 Reuters/Ipsos ballot.
Different surveys present Harris and her working mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, have gained floor in a number of of the seven battleground states that would resolve the election: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.
Harris has made reproductive rights and private freedoms a rallying cry and backs a nationwide legislation codifying entry to protected abortion.
Her financial plans embrace tax cuts for many People, worth gouging bans, extra inexpensive housing and a brand new baby tax credit score in addition to efforts to spice up home manufacturing. She proposed rising the company tax fee to twenty-eight% from 21% and ending taxes on suggestions.
She has promised more durable immigration and fentanyl controls on the border. Her local weather and vitality positions are just like these held by Biden, who made combating local weather change a prime precedence.
Harris has been seen as tech-friendly whilst she took on alleged anticompetition and privateness points, and she or he has sought to reassure donors that she backs capitalism.
On overseas coverage, Harris is anticipated to stay largely to Biden’s playbook on key points reminiscent of 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.
Key labor teams, together with the Service Staff Worldwide Union, the United Auto Employees and the American Federation of Academics, endorsed her. Former U.S. navy officers, firm executives and quite a few former prime Republican officers have additionally backed her.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
DONALD TRUMP
Trump, 78, secured the Republican nomination in July to make his third consecutive run for the White Home after dropping his 2020 reelection bid.
Trump continues to repeat his false declare that Democrats stole the 2020 election as he campaigns amid unprecedented authorized challenges, together with a recent U.S. indictment over efforts to subvert his loss to Biden.
In workplace from 2017 to 2021, he has solid his indictments in 4 legal circumstances as a political assault, vowing “retribution” in opposition to perceived enemies and embracing more and more dystopian rhetoric.
Trump grew to become the primary former U.S. president to be convicted of a criminal offense in Could, in New York Metropolis. He was additionally the primary president to be impeached twice. He denies any wrongdoing.
Trump, who selected U.S. Senator JD (NASDAQ:) Vance of Ohio as his working mate, has refused to decide to accepting the 2024 outcomes or to rule out doable political violence, whereas he and Republicans lay the groundwork to contest a possible loss. He promised to pardon supporters imprisoned for the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and threatened to prosecute election officers, donors, Google (NASDAQ:) and others if he wins.
He mentioned he wouldn’t run once more if he loses.
Trump is the oldest U.S. presidential nominee and would develop into the nation’s second oldest president. He confronted two assassination makes an attempt, one at a Pennsylvania marketing campaign rally in July and one other one in September close to considered one of his Florida golf programs.
Trump-friendly suppose tanks’ sweeping “Project 2025” coverage agenda would goal the Justice Division’s independence, amongst different plans. Trump has sought to distance himself from the undertaking regardless of his former aides’ and Vance’s involvement. He additionally needs the facility to exchange federal civil service employees with loyalists.
On overseas coverage, Trump has vowed to basically alter the U.S. relationship with NATO and to resolve the Ukraine struggle with doable peace talks which may require Kyiv to cede territory. He has mentioned Hamas have to be “crushed” and vowed to be more durable on Iran, however has given few particulars or coverage proposals.
Trump has made immigration a prime situation, promising mass deportations, together with authorized Haitian immigrants given Momentary Protected Standing in Springfield, Ohio. He would finish birthright citizenship and develop a journey ban on folks from sure nations.
He takes credit score for the U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling overturning Roe v. Wade protections, saying abortion legal guidelines ought to be left to the states. Trump mentioned he doesn’t help banning contraception.
On the economic system, Trump would impose sweeping tariffs on imported items and on particular corporations. He pledged to finish taxes on suggestions and extra time, to decrease company tax charges and to open federal lands to overseas corporations and housing. He has additionally vowed to undo a lot of Biden’s local weather change work.
Trump has confronted criticism, together with from some Republicans, for private assaults in opposition to Harris, together with over her race and gender.
Trump appointed former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his transition group and mentioned he would faucet billionaire supporter Elon Musk to deal with authorities effectivity.
The Nationwide Fraternal Order of Police and different police teams have additionally backed his election bid.
THIRD PARTIES & INDEPENDENTS
LIBERTARIAN PARTY
CHASE OLIVER
Whereas the Libertarian Occasion invited Trump to its conference, it in the end chosen Oliver, 39. Oliver ran for a Georgia state Senate seat in 2022 and garnered 2% of the vote.
GREEN PARTY
JILL STEIN
Stein, 74, a doctor who ran underneath the Inexperienced Occasion in 2016, is working 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.”
INDEPENDENT
CORNEL WEST
The political activist, thinker and educational is making a bid to draw extra progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 71, initially ran as a Inexperienced Occasion candidate however in October mentioned folks “want good policies over partisan politics” and declared himself an unbiased. He has promised to finish poverty and assure housing.
