President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in the US presidential election on November 5, and it is expected to be a close race with divided opinions. Several third-party candidates are also running.
The list of candidates is as follows:
republican party
Donald Trump, who will serve as president from 2017 to 2021, secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination and set up the first presidential rematch in nearly 70 years.
He has used an unprecedented legal challenge to solidify support among his base and announced his bid for the White House for a third time as part of a retaliation against perceived political opponents. He has run a campaign with increasingly dystopian rhetoric, calling his supporters imprisoned for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “hostages.” He has refused to accept the election results or rule out the possibility of violence before or after the Nov. 5 campaign, and has already laid the groundwork to contest a possible election loss. ing.
President Trump, 77, faces 88 indictments in four criminal cases, including attempts to subvert the 2020 election, keeping classified documents after leaving office, and concealing hush money payments to porn stars.
He has denied wrongdoing in all cases, including the only hush-money criminal trial in New York that could begin before the Nov. 5 election.
He claimed the charges were a conspiracy by the Democratic Party to prevent him from winning. The U.S. Department of Justice denies political interference. Trump vowed revenge on his political opponents if elected for another four-year term, saying he would “not be a dictator except on day one,” which he later criticized as a “joke.” He also wants the power to replace federal civil servants with his allies. President Trump drew criticism from Western leaders for saying the United States would encourage Russia to attack NATO members by not protecting them because they do not spend enough on defense. caused it. He also pressured Congressional Republicans to halt military aid to Ukraine, before later reversing his policy. President Trump has made immigration a top domestic campaign issue, carrying out mass deportations, using the National Guard and possibly the federal military, abolishing birthright citizenship, and banning people from certain countries from traveling. announced that it would expand. He has called immigrants “animals” and has not ruled out the possibility of building detention centers on U.S. soil. On abortion, President Trump credited the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and said abortion should remain a national issue. He has criticized the measures of some Republican-led states, such as Florida's six-week abortion ban, which requires Republican-led states to track women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate their states' bans. He said he acknowledged that.
He had promised to repeal Obamacare health benefits before saying in an April 11 video that he would not “repeal” them. He also vowed that he would roll back many of the Biden administration's efforts to combat climate change. President Trump has not yet announced his running mate, but several possibilities have been floated. He ran alongside Mr. Trump in 2016 and 2020, but Mike Pence, who was targeted by Mr. Trump and his supporters in the January 6 attack, will be running for office in November. refused his support.
Democratic Party
Joe Biden Biden began his candidacy in 2020 as an urgent effort to protect American freedom and democracy, saying Trump threatened the future of American democracy and also seeking re-election. I'm coming from a similar perspective.
Biden faced no serious challenger for his party's nomination, which he won in March. The November election will be even tougher. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that both Biden and Trump have the support of 40% of registered voters. Other polls show the incumbent trailing Mr. Trump in key battleground states. At 81 years old, Biden is already the oldest U.S. president in history and must contend with low approval ratings while convincing voters that he is more suitable than Trump, who is only four years younger.
The economic situation will also have an impact on Biden's re-election. The United States has avoided an expected recession and is growing faster than economists expected, but inflation and the prices of essential goods are weighing on voters. Biden has pushed for a massive economic stimulus and infrastructure spending package to boost U.S. industrial production, but his campaign has so far focused on new chip manufacturing plants, housing projects and other economic efforts. It is hardly appreciated by voters. Biden has said he wants to compete with China rather than start a trade war, and he has moved to maintain tariffs introduced by President Trump while ratcheting up other countries on a range of Chinese imports. . Two labor groups, the United Auto Workers Union and the Construction Workers of North America, are supporting Vice President Kamala Harris' re-election bid. Biden's immigration policy has been criticized by Republicans and Democrats as the number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border hits record highs. He led Western governments' responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, persuaded allies to punish Russia and support Kiev, and secured additional funding in April after months of battle with Congressional Republicans. . Biden has also provided military aid to Israel in its conflict with Hamas while appealing for more humanitarian aid, but as a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, the Gaza war and its response to U.S. campuses are It has become clear that he has faced harsh criticism from some Democrats over his handling of both protests. It divided the party. In May, Biden suspended certain weapons shipments to Israel as efforts to pursue a ceasefire continued, as Israel vowed to launch a ground operation in Rafah.
Marianne Williamson Less than a month after dropping out, best-selling author and self-help guru Marianne Williamson, 71, has announced her bid for a long-term 2024 presidential campaign focused on “justice and love.” has resumed his candidacy.
In a statement in February, she said she had previously taken a hiatus because she lost a “horse race” but would return to fight President Trump's “dark, authoritarian vision.”
Williamson previously ran as a Democrat in the 2020 presidential primary, but withdrew from the race before votes were cast.
independent person
Robert F. Kennedy JR
Kennedy, 70, an anti-vaccination activist and environmental activist, is running as an independent after initially challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination. Although Kennedy is lagging in the overall polls, he has the potential to siphon votes from Trump and Biden, with the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showing him supported by 8% of registered voters, 3. It was down 7 percentage points from March. Mr. Kennedy, the son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while running for president in 1968, has drawn rebuke from a prominent family that has publicly supported Mr. Biden. Mr Kennedy, who chose wealthy lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate, supports Israel and has doubts about the six-week ceasefire supported by Mr Biden.
He said he views the situation at the U.S. southern border as a humanitarian crisis and opposes President Trump's border wall. He also vowed to rescind parts of Biden's climate change bill, citing tax cuts that Biden claims will support the oil industry. Kennedy has taken a variety of positions on abortion rights, including limiting when women can obtain abortions. She told Reuters that she thought all abortions were a “tragedy” but that it should be a woman's right “throughout her pregnancy.” He has long been criticized for making false medical claims about vaccines, but he said he still intends to make them available to Americans. He himself suffered from brain parasites more than 10 years ago, but his campaign announced in May that he has made a full recovery.
Kennedy's campaign says he is officially on the ballot in a handful of states so far, including California, Michigan and Utah, but it will be a difficult and expensive battle to get into all 50 states. facing.
cornel west
The political activist, philosopher and scholar is running as a third-party presidential candidate most likely to appeal to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
Mr West, 70, initially ran as a Green Party candidate, but announced in October that he would run as an independent, saying people “wanted better policy than partisan politics”. He promised to eradicate poverty and guarantee his housing.
Jill Stein
Jill Stein, a doctor who ran for the Green Party in 2016, is planning to try again in 2024.
She launched her current campaign by accusing Democrats of repeatedly betraying promises “to workers, young people and the climate, when Republicans have never even made those promises in the first place.”
Mr. Stein, 73, raised millions of dollars for a recount after Mr. Trump won an unexpected victory in 2016. Her claims resulted in just one election poll showing Trump won in Wisconsin. (Reporting by Costas Pitas and Susan Heavey; Additional reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly; Editing by Ross Colvin, Daniel Wallis, Rosalba O'Brien and Jonathan Oatis)
