(Reuters) -President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face one another within the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5 in what seems to be set to be a divisive, intently fought contest. A number of third-party hopefuls are additionally operating.
Here’s a record of the candidates:
DONALD TRUMP
Trump, in workplace from 2017-2021, has secured sufficient delegates to clinch the Republican nomination, establishing the primary presidential rematch in practically 70 years.
He has leveraged his unprecedented authorized challenges to solidify help amongst his base and has forged his third bid for the White Home partially as retribution in opposition to perceived political enemies. He calls supporters jailed for the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol “hostages” and campaigns utilizing more and more dystopian rhetoric.
Trump, 77, faces 88 costs in 4 felony circumstances over efforts to subvert the 2020 election in addition to unlawfully retaining categorized nationwide safety paperwork and falsifying enterprise data. His first felony trial started in New York on April 15.
He has stated, with out proof, that the felony costs are a Democratic conspiracy designed to maintain him from profitable, with a few of his authorized challenges reaching the U.S. Supreme Court docket. The U.S. Justice Division denies any political interference.
If elected to a different four-year time period, Trump has vowed revenge on his political enemies, and stated he wouldn’t be a dictator besides “on day one.” He additionally needs the ability to interchange federal civil service employees with loyalists.
He sparked criticism from Western leaders for saying the U.S. wouldn’t defend NATO members that didn’t spend sufficient on protection and would encourage Russia to assault them. He additionally pressed congressional Republicans to stall navy assist for Ukraine.
Trump has made immigration his prime home marketing campaign problem, declaring he would perform mass deportations, create holding camps, make the most of the Nationwide Guard, finish birthright citizenship, and increase a journey ban on folks from sure nations. He has referred to migrants as “animals.”
On abortion, Trump takes credit score for the U.S. Supreme Court docket ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and in April stated abortion ought to stay a state problem. He has criticized some Republican-led states’ six-week abortion bans and has declined to help a federal ban.
He has promised sweeping modifications that included eliminating Obamacare medical health insurance earlier than saying in an April 11 video that he wouldn’t “terminate” it. He has additionally vowed to undo a lot of the Biden administration’s work to combat local weather change.
Trump has but to announce a vice presidential operating mate, however a number of potentialities have been floated. Mike Pence, who ran alongside Trump in 2016 and 2020 however was focused by Trump and his supporters amid the Jan. 6 assault, refused to endorse him in November’s contest.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
JOE BIDEN
Biden launched his 2020 candidacy as an pressing bid to defend American liberties and shield democracy and has forged his reelection bid in the identical mild, saying Trump threatens the way forward for American democracy.
Biden confronted no severe challenger for the celebration’s nomination, which he clinched in March.
November’s election will likely be a lot harder, with the latest Reuters/Ipsos ballot placing Biden’s voter help barely forward at 41% of registered voters, 4 share factors forward of Trump’s 37%.
Biden, the oldest U.S. president ever at 81, should persuade voters he’s more healthy for workplace than Trump, who’s simply 4 years youthful, whereas additionally combating low approval rankings.
The financial system can even consider his reelection marketing campaign. Whereas the U.S. escaped an anticipated recession and is rising quicker than economists anticipated, inflation and the price of necessities is weighing on voters.
Biden pushed via huge financial stimulus and infrastructure spending packages to spice up U.S. industrial output, however has acquired little recognition from voters as far as his marketing campaign strikes to spotlight new semiconductor manufacturing crops, housing plans, and different financial efforts.
Biden’s dealing with of immigration coverage has additionally been criticized by Republicans and Democrats as migrant crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border hit file highs.
He has led the response of Western governments to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, persuading allies to sanction Russia and help Kyiv.
Biden has supplied navy assist to Israel in its battle with Hamas in Gaza whereas pushing for extra humanitarian help, however he has confronted sharp criticism from some Democrats for not pushing more durable for a ceasefire or matching his harder rhetoric on Israel with motion. He has threatened to situation the help on Israeli steps to guard assist employees and civilians and stated the U.S. won’t participate in a counteroffensive in opposition to Iran.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Finest-selling creator and self-help guru Marianne Williamson, 71, relaunched her long-shot 2024 presidential bid specializing in “justice and love” lower than one month after dropping out.
In a February assertion, she stated she was getting again in to combat Trump’s “darkish and authoritarian imaginative and prescient” after earlier suspending it as a result of she was shedding “the horse race.” Williamson beforehand ran as a Democrat within the 2020 presidential main however dropped out of that race earlier than any votes had been forged.
INDEPENDENTS
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR
An anti-vaccine activist and environmental advocate, Kennedy, 70, is operating as an unbiased after initially difficult Biden for the Democratic nomination.
Whereas he lags in total polling, Kennedy may siphon votes from Trump and Biden, with a March Reuters/Ipsos ballot exhibiting he was backed by 16% of registered voters.
Kennedy is the son of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 throughout his personal presidential bid, however he has drawn rebukes from his well-known household, which additionally reportedly plans to step up efforts to publicly again Biden.
Kennedy, who selected rich lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his operating mate. helps Israel and has questioned the six-week ceasefire backed by Biden. He stated he views the U.S. southern border state of affairs as a humanitarian disaster and opposes Trump’s border wall. He has additionally vowed to repeal components of Biden’s local weather invoice over tax breaks he says assist the oil trade.
On well being, Kennedy has taken completely different positions on abortion. He has been criticized for making false medical claims over time on vaccines however says he would nonetheless permit Individuals to have entry to them.
CORNEL WEST
The political activist, thinker and tutorial is operating as a third-party bid for president that’s more likely to enchantment to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 70, initially ran as a Inexperienced Occasion candidate, however in October he stated folks “need good insurance policies over partisan politics” and introduced his bid as an unbiased. He has promised to finish poverty and assure housing.
JILL STEIN
Jill Stein, a doctor who ran beneath the Inexperienced Occasion in 2016, launched her present marketing campaign accusing Democrats of betraying their guarantees “for working folks, youth and the local weather repeatedly – whereas Republicans don’t even make such guarantees within the first place.”
Stein, 73, raised tens of millions of {dollars} for recounts after Trump’s shock 2016 victory. Her allegations yielded just one electoral overview in Wisconsin, which confirmed Trump had gained.