Biden’s handling of immigration policy has also been criticized by Republicans and Democrats
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Republican former President Donald Trump and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley are vying to be their party’s presidential candidate in the 2024 election, while President Joe Biden is the de facto Democratic nominee. A number of third-party candidates are also running.
This is the list of candidates.
Donald Trump
Trump is using his civil cases and indictments in four criminal cases, unprecedented for a former U.S. president, to boost his support among Republicans and raise funds, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. money, helping him become the Republican front-runner with 64% support. He scored early nominating victories in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada and is pushing to replace the Republican National Committee’s leadership with his top allies ahead of the party’s nominating convention in July.
Trump, 77, has called the indictments a political witch hunt aimed at preventing him from seeking a second four-year term, a claim the Justice Department denies. Following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, several legal challenges were filed in the U.S. Supreme Court over his eligibility to vote and whether he could assert presidential immunity. If re-elected, Trump has vowed revenge against his perceived enemies and has adopted increasingly authoritarian language, including saying he would not be a dictator except “on day one.”
He also promised other sweeping reforms, including slashing the federal civil service to install loyalists and implementing tougher immigration policies such as mass deportations and the end of birthright citizenship. He also promised to cancel Obamacare health insurance, vowed to impose tougher restrictions on trade with China and signaled that he would not defend NATO allies.
Nikki Haley
Haley, the 52-year-old former South Carolina governor and Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, emphasized that she is relatively young compared with Biden and Trump, who are 81, and that she is the daughter of Indian immigrants.
She has earned a reputation among Republicans as a staunch conservative who can address gender and race issues in a more credible way than many of her peers. But Trump has increasingly targeted her, launching racist attacks on her race and amplifying false claims that she was born in South Carolina to qualify for the White House.
Haley, who had 19% support among Republicans in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, stepped up her attacks on Trump after the Jan. 23 contest in New Hampshire and Trump raised $1 million after threatening her donors. She also used Trump’s praise of dictators to position herself as a staunch defender of U.S. interests abroad and reinforce the argument that Trump is too confusing and divisive to be effective.
She said she would stay in the race after the Feb. 24 primary in her home state, where polls show her trailing Trump and whose campaign has slammed Trump’s proposed reforms to the Republican National Committee. Says the party should undergo an overhaul and have its finances audited.
Democratic Party
Joe Biden
At 81, Biden, already the oldest president in U.S. history, must convince voters that he has the stamina to stay in office for another four years despite low approval ratings and a special counsel report suggesting he is ill. Have memory impairment. Biden slammed the report, and his allies said he believed he was the only Democratic candidate who could defeat Trump and protect democracy. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll puts Biden at 34% and Trump at 37%, with a margin of error of nearly 2.9 percentage points.
In announcing his candidacy, Biden declared that he needed to defend American freedoms, pointing to the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021. Vice President Kamala Harris is once again his running mate.
The economy will also be a factor in his re-election bid. Even as the U.S. emerges from an expected recession and is growing faster than economists expected, inflation is set to hit a 40-year high in 2022 and the cost of essential goods is weighing on voters. Biden has pushed for a massive economic stimulus and infrastructure spending plan to boost U.S. industrial output, but the latter has received little approval from voters.
Biden has led Western governments’ response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, convincing allies to sanction Russia and support Kyiv, and he has also backed Israel in its conflict with Hamas militants in Gaza while pushing for more humanitarian aid. However, he was harshly criticized by some fellow Democrats for not supporting a ceasefire in the Palestinian territories. Gaza health officials say more than 28,400 people have been killed in the area, thousands of buildings have been damaged or destroyed, and residents lack food and water and medical supplies.
Biden’s handling of immigration policy has also been criticized by Republicans and Democrats, as the number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border hit record highs during his administration.
In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Biden easily won New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
Dean Phillips
Dean Phillips, a little-known U.S. congressman from Minnesota, announced in October that he would challenge Biden because he did not believe the president could be re-elected.
The 55-year-old millionaire businessman and ice cream company co-founder announced his bid in a one-minute video posted online, saying: “We’ve had some challenges… We’re going to fix the economy, we’re Will fix America.”
Phillips failed to win any delegates in South Carolina and finished second in New Hampshire. He did not appear on the ballot in Nevada.
independent
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, a 70-year-old anti-vaccine activist who initially ran against Biden for the Democratic nomination and is now running as an independent, is trailing far behind in polls.
Some recent Reuters/Ipsos polls suggest that Kennedy could hurt Biden more than Trump in the presidential election, as third-party candidates could influence the outcome of U.S. elections even if they don’t win . Even if respondents were given the option to vote for third-party candidates, including Kennedy, Trump still leads Biden by 6 percentage points in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, which has 8% support.
Kennedy is the son of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 while running for president. A surprise Super Bowl ad that touted his relationship with his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, angered his family and prompted an apology.
He was banned from Instagram for spreading misinformation about vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic, but has since been reinstated. He also lost a legal battle to force YouTube owner Google to reinstate a video of him questioning the safety of coronavirus vaccines.
Cornel West
The political activist, philosopher and academic said in June that he would launch a third-party presidential campaign that could appeal to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 70, originally ran as a Green Party candidate but announced in October that people “want good policy rather than partisan politics” and announced he was running as an independent. He promised to end poverty and secure housing.
jirstein
Physician Jill Stein re-upped her 2016 Green Party candidacy on Nov. 9, accusing Democrats of “betraying their commitment to working people, youth and the climate time and time again — while Republicans even No such commitment was made in the first place” place. “
After Trump’s surprise victory in 2016, Stein, 73, raised millions of dollars for the recount. Her accusations produced only one election review in Wisconsin that showed Trump winning.
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