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 checklist of the candidates.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
DONALD TRUMP
Trump, 78, secured the Republican nomination at his celebration’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 forged his indictments in 4 prison circumstances as a political assault towards him and his supporters, vowing “retribution” towards 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 maintaining labeled paperwork after leaving workplace had been dismissed by a federal choose, however prosecutors have appealed. He denies any wrongdoing.
The remaining circumstances are unlikely to succeed in trial earlier than the November election, whereas a New York choose delayed the sentencing for Trump’s conviction over falsifying paperwork to cowl up a cost.
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 doable 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 can 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 exchange federal civil service employees with loyalists.
A consortium of Trump-friendly suppose tanks touts a sweeping coverage agenda often 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 essentially alter the U.S. relationship with NATO and to resolve the Ukraine struggle with doable peace talks that may require Kyiv to cede territory.
Trump has made immigration a prime home marketing campaign problem, promising mass deportations, an finish to birthright citizenship and an expanded journey ban on individuals from sure international locations, amongst different actions.
On abortion, he takes credit score for the U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, and says legal guidelines regulating abortion needs to be left to states. Trump mentioned he doesn’t help 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 towards Harris, together with over her race.
Trump appointed former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his transition staff after Kennedy suspended his unbiased bid for the presidency.
He vowed to place billionaire Elon Musk, who has endorsed him, accountable for 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, gained the Democratic Social gathering’s nomination after Biden ended his reelection bid, permitting Democrats to current a unique 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, individuals of colour and suburban girls.
Biden’s exit and endorsement of Harris adopted weeks of celebration 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 normal and native prosecutor, turned the primary lady and individual of colour to function vice chairman after Biden chosen her as his operating mate within the 2020 election. She would turn 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 towards Trump.
She leads the previous president nationally 45% to 41% in a Reuters/Ipsos survey printed 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 corresponding to crime and the economic system. However within the seven battleground states that might determine 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 anticipated to stay largely to Biden’s overseas coverage playbook on key points corresponding 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 towards Hamas, saying the militant group should 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 Individuals, ban what she says is “price gouging” by grocers, construct extra inexpensive housing and introduce a brand new little one tax credit score.
She has additionally proposed growing the company tax charge to twenty-eight% from 21%. Her local weather and vitality positions are additionally just like these held by Biden, who has made preventing local weather change a prime precedence.
Harris has been seen as tech-friendly whilst 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 Lecturers, have endorsed her presidential bid. Former U.S. army officers and firm executives additionally publicly backed her.
INDEPENDENTS
CORNEL WEST
The political activist, thinker and educational 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 Social gathering candidate however in October mentioned individuals “want good policies over partisan politics” and declared himself an unbiased. He has promised to finish poverty and assure housing.
GREEN PARTY
JILL STEIN
Stein, 74, a doctor who ran beneath the Inexperienced Social gathering in 2016, is attempting 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 Social gathering invited each Trump and Kennedy to talk at its conference in late Could, it in the end chosen Oliver, 39. Oliver ran for a Georgia state Senate seat in 2022 and garnered 2% of the vote.
