By Susan Heavey, Costas Pitas
(Reuters) -Republican former President Donald Trump is prone to face Vice President Kamala Harris within the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and a majority of the Democratic Get together’s delegates moved to again her.
A number of third-party hopefuls are additionally working. Here’s a record of the candidates.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
DONALD TRUMP
Trump, 78, secured the Republican nomination on the celebration’s July conference in Milwaukee, simply days after surviving an assassination try at a marketing campaign rally. That is his third bid for the White Home.
The capturing spurred a quick message of unity earlier than Trump returned to his normal mixture of bombast and grievance, repeating his false declare that Democrats stole the 2020 election.
Trump, in workplace from 2017 to 2021, has forged his unprecedented indictments in 4 legal circumstances as a political assault not simply towards him but in addition his supporters, calling his marketing campaign “retribution” towards perceived political enemies and embracing more and more dystopian rhetoric.
He turned the primary former U.S. president to be convicted of against the law in Could and nonetheless faces U.S. and Georgia state prices over efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Separate allegations of illegally maintaining categorised paperwork after leaving workplace had been dismissed, however prosecutors have appealed. He denies any wrongdoing.
The remaining circumstances are unlikely to achieve trial earlier than the election after the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated presidents are entitled to immunity from legal prosecution for official acts. Trump’s New York sentencing for falsifying paperwork to cowl up a cost to a porn star was additionally placed on maintain.
Trump, who selected U.S. Senator J.D. Vance as his working mate, has refused to decide to accepting the 2024 election outcomes or to rule out doable political violence, and is laying the groundwork to contest a possible election loss. He has additionally vowed to pardon supporters jailed for the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, calling them “warriors.”
He would search to interchange federal civil service employees with loyalists. A consortium of Trump-friendly suppose tanks touts a sweeping coverage agenda often known as “Project 2025” that takes purpose at variety applications and the Justice Division’s independence, amongst different plans, though Trump has sought to distance himself.
On overseas coverage, Trump vowed to basically alter the U.S. relationship with NATO and to resolve the Ukraine struggle with doable peace talks that will require Kyiv ceding territory.
Trump has made immigration a prime home marketing campaign concern, promising mass deportations, an finish to birthright citizenship, and an expanded journey ban on individuals from sure nations, 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 mentioned he doesn’t assist banning contraception.
He has additionally vowed to undo a lot of the Biden administration’s work to battle local weather change.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KAMALA HARRIS
Harris, 59, mentioned she plans “to earn and win” the Democratic Get together’s nomination after Biden ended his bid for a second time period and endorsed her amid celebration upheaval following his weak efficiency within the June 27 debate towards Trump.
Her candidacy permits Democrats to current a special imaginative and prescient of the USA in distinction to Trump’s agenda and will assist the celebration revive its coalition of younger voters, individuals of coloration and suburban girls.
Whereas Democrats rapidly coalesced round Harris – a former U.S. senator, prosecutor and California lawyer normal – it stays to be seen whether or not anybody will problem her for the celebration’s nomination at its Aug. 19-22 conference in Chicago.
Harris, who’s Black and Asian-American, turned the primary girl and individual of coloration to function vp after Biden chosen her as his working mate within the 2020 election. She would change into the primary girl to function president within the nation’s 248-year historical past if she wins in November.
Like Biden, polls present Harris would face a good race towards Trump, with each tied at 44% assist in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup in response to a July 15-16 Reuters/Ipsos survey.
Harris has been the face of the Biden marketing campaign on the difficulty of abortion as reproductive rights turned a serious concern after the U.S. Supreme Court docket in 2022 overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade resolution.
She additionally was tasked with taking a look at a number of seemingly intractable points, together with the basis causes of migration on the U.S. southern border and limitations on voting rights.
As a presidential candidate, she is predicted to stay largely to Biden’s overseas coverage playbook on key points corresponding to Ukraine, China and Iran however might strike a more durable tone with Israel over the Gaza struggle.
Her local weather and vitality positions are additionally much like these held by Biden, who has made combating local weather change a prime precedence.
On enterprise and the economic system, Harris has been seen as tech-friendly at the same time as she took on alleged anticompetitive and privateness points, and has sought to reassure donors that she backs capitalism.
Key labor teams, together with the Service Workers Worldwide Union and the American Federation of Academics, have additionally endorsed Harris’ presidential bid.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Greatest-selling writer and self-help guru Marianne Williamson, 72, on social media platform X known as for an open Democratic conference after Biden dropped out of the race, saying “no one should simply be anointed to the position of nominee.”
She relaunched her long-shot 2024 presidential bid in February, specializing in “justice and love” lower than one month after dropping out, vowing to battle Trump’s “dark and authoritarian vision.”
Williamson beforehand ran as a Democrat within the 2020 presidential major however dropped out earlier than voting started.
INDEPENDENTS
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
An anti-vaccine activist and environmental advocate, Kennedy, 70, is working as an unbiased after initially difficult Biden for the Democratic nomination.
The son of Democratic U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 throughout his personal presidential bid, Kennedy has drawn rebukes from his well-known household.
He helps Israel and questioned a six-week ceasefire backed by Biden.
Kennedy mentioned he views the U.S. southern border scenario as a humanitarian disaster and opposes Trump’s border wall. He has additionally vowed to repeal elements of Biden’s local weather invoice over tax breaks he says assist the oil trade.
He has taken completely different positions on abortion rights, together with restrictions on when a girl can entry an abortion. He instructed Reuters he thought each abortion was a “tragedy” however that it needs to be a girl’s proper all through the being pregnant.
Kennedy has been criticized for making false medical claims over time on vaccines however says he would enable Individuals to entry them.
Requested about an alleged sexual assault, he mentioned in July that he has “so many skeletons in my closet.” His marketing campaign additionally mentioned Kennedy had a mind worm years in the past however that he has absolutely recovered.
Kennedy, who selected rich lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his working mate, is formally on the poll in only a handful of the 50 states, together with California, Michigan and Utah, in response to his marketing campaign.
CORNEL WEST
The political activist, thinker and tutorial is making a third-party bid for president that’s almost definitely to enchantment to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 71, initially ran as a Inexperienced Get together candidate however mentioned in October that 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
Jill Stein, 74, a doctor who ran underneath the Inexperienced Get together 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 Get together invited each Trump and Kennedy to talk at their conference in late Could, it finally chosen Chase Oliver, 38. Oliver ran for a Georgia state Senate seat in 2022 and garnered 2% of the vote.
