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 ultimate pitches in battleground states forward of what’s projected to be a decent race.
A number of third-party hopefuls are additionally operating. Listed here are the candidates.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
KAMALA HARRIS
Harris, 60, gained the Democratic Get together’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, individuals of colour and suburban ladies.
A former U.S. senator, California legal professional common and San Francisco prosecutor, Harris turned the primary girl and individual of colour to function vice chairman after Biden chosen her as his 2020 operating mate. She would turn into the primary girl to function president within the nation’s 248-year historical past if she wins.
Opinion polls present Harris is in an in depth race in opposition to Trump. She leads the previous president nationally 44% to 43%, in keeping with a Reuters/Ipsos ballot printed on Oct. 29.
Different surveys present Harris and her operating mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in tight races among the many seven battleground states that would determine the election: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.
Through the ultimate weeks of the marketing campaign, Harris has renewed efforts to color Trump as a menace to democracy after he made ominous feedback about “the enemy within” the USA and threatened to deploy the army domestically. She additionally agreed with the evaluation by Trump’s former chief of workers, 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 protected abortion.
Her financial plans embody tax cuts for many People, bans on value gouging, extra reasonably priced housing and a brand new little one 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 more durable immigration and fentanyl controls on the border. Her local weather and power positions are just like these held by Biden, who made combating local weather change a high precedence.
Harris has been seen as tech-friendly whilst 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 predicted to stay largely to Biden’s playbook on key points reminiscent of 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 in opposition to Hamas, saying the militant group have to 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 Employees and the American Federation of Lecturers, endorsed her. Former U.S. army officers, firm executives and quite a few former high 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 solid his indictments in 4 prison circumstances as a political assault, vowing “retribution” in opposition to perceived enemies and embracing more and more dystopian rhetoric.
Trump turned the primary former U.S. president to be convicted of against the law in Might, 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 operating 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 issues 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 stated he wouldn’t run once more if he loses.
Trump is the oldest U.S. presidential nominee and would turn into 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 suppose tanks’ sweeping “Project 2025” coverage agenda would goal the Justice Division’s independence, amongst different plans. Trump has sought to distance himself from the mission regardless of his former aides’ and Vance’s involvement. He additionally desires the facility to exchange federal civil service employees with loyalists.
On overseas coverage, Trump has vowed to basically 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 stated Hamas have to be “crushed” and vowed to be more durable on Iran, however has given few particulars or coverage proposals.
Trump has made immigration a high subject, promising mass deportations, together with authorized Haitian immigrants given Momentary Protected Standing in Springfield, Ohio. He would finish birthright citizenship and broaden a journey ban on individuals from sure nations.
He takes credit score for the U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling overturning Roe v. Wade protections, saying abortion legal guidelines must be left to the states. Trump stated he doesn’t assist banning contraception.
On the economic system, Trump would impose sweeping tariffs on imported items and on particular firms and nations. 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 in opposition to Harris, together with over her race and gender.
Trump appointed former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his transition crew and stated he would faucet billionaire supporter Elon Musk to handle 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 Get together invited Trump to its conference, it in the end 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 Get together in 2016, is operating 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 Get together candidate however in October stated individuals “want good policies over partisan politics” and declared himself an impartial. He has promised to finish poverty and assure housing.
