By Costas Pitas, Susan Heavey
(Reuters) -Republican former President Donald Trump will face Vice President Kamala Harris in a Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, with each candidates making their last pitches in battleground states forward of what’s projected to be a decent race.
A number of third-party hopefuls are additionally working. Listed below are the candidates.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KAMALA HARRIS
Harris, 60, gained 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 colour and suburban girls.
A former U.S. senator, California lawyer common and San Francisco prosecutor, Harris grew to become the primary lady and particular person of colour to function vice chairman after Biden chosen her as his 2020 working mate. She would grow to be the primary lady to function president within the nation’s 248-year historical past if she wins.
Opinion polls present Harris is in an in depth race towards Trump. She leads the previous president nationally 44% to 43%, in line with a Reuters/Ipsos ballot printed on Oct. 29.
Different surveys present Harris and her working mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in tight races among the many seven battleground states that would resolve the election: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.
Through the last weeks of the marketing campaign, Harris has renewed efforts to color Trump as a risk to democracy after he made ominous feedback about “the enemy within” the US and threatened to deploy the army domestically. She additionally agreed with the evaluation by Trump’s former chief of employees, John Kelly, that her opponent is a fascist, a characterization Trump and his allies rejected.
Harris has made reproductive rights and private freedoms a rallying cry and backs a nationwide legislation codifying entry to secure abortion.
Her financial plans embrace tax cuts for many Individuals, bans on value gouging, extra inexpensive housing and a brand new youngster tax credit score in addition to efforts to spice up home manufacturing. She proposed growing the company tax charge to twenty-eight% from 21% and ending taxes on ideas.
She has promised harder immigration and fentanyl controls on the border. Her local weather and vitality positions are much like these held by Biden, who made preventing local weather change a prime precedence.
Harris has been seen as tech-friendly at the same time as 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 similar 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.
Key labor teams, together with the Service Workers Worldwide Union, the United Auto Staff and the American Federation of Lecturers, endorsed her. Former U.S. army 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 contemporary U.S. indictment over efforts to subvert his loss to Biden.
In workplace from 2017 to 2021, he has forged his indictments in 4 felony circumstances as a political assault, vowing “retribution” towards perceived enemies and embracing more and more dystopian rhetoric.
Trump grew to become the primary former U.S. president to be convicted of against the law 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 attainable political violence, whereas he and Republicans lay the groundwork to contest a possible loss. His false claims about voter fraud in battleground Pennsylvania have raised considerations that he might once more attempt to overturn election outcomes if he loses.
Trump has additionally 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 grow to be 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 one in all his Florida golf programs.
Trump-friendly assume tanks’ sweeping “Project 2025” coverage agenda would goal the Justice Division’s independence, amongst different plans. Trump has sought to distance himself from the venture regardless of his former aides’ and Vance’s involvement. He additionally desires the facility to substitute federal civil service staff with loyalists.
On overseas coverage, Trump has vowed to essentially alter the U.S. relationship with NATO and to resolve the Ukraine conflict with attainable peace talks which may require Kyiv to cede territory. He has mentioned Hamas should be “crushed” and vowed to be harder on Iran, however has given few particulars or coverage proposals.
Trump has made immigration a prime difficulty, 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 international locations.
He takes credit score for the U.S. Supreme Court docket 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 financial system, Trump would impose sweeping tariffs on imported items and on particular firms and international locations. He pledged to finish taxes on ideas and additional time, to make emergency mills tax-deductible in states hit by pure disasters, to decrease company tax charges and to open federal lands to overseas firms 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 towards Harris, together with over her race and gender.
Trump appointed former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his transition staff 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 finally 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 below 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.
