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:
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republican party
donald trump
Trump, who was 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 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 when he said the United States would not protect NATO members who do not spend enough on defense and would encourage Russia to attack them. He also pressured Republican lawmakers to delay military aid to Ukraine, but later reversed course.
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 camps on U.S. soil.
On the issue of abortion, President Trump has taken credit for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying abortion should remain a state issue. He criticized measures by Republican-led states, such as Florida's six-week abortion ban, while allowing Republican-led states to track women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate the state's ban. Stated.
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 2020 candidacy as an urgent effort to protect American freedom and democracy, saying President Trump threatens the future of American democracy and casting his re-election challenge in a similar light. ing.
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 approval ratings of 40% among registered voters. Other polls show the incumbent trailing Mr. Trump in key battleground states.
Already at 81 years old, the oldest president in U.S. history, Mr. Biden is struggling with even lower approval ratings among younger voters than older voters, while also contending that he is more qualified to be president than Mr. Trump, who is only four years younger. We have to convince voters.
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 expand U.S. industrial production, but his campaign has so far focused on new chip manufacturing plants, housing projects and other economic efforts. However, it is hardly appreciated by voters.
Mr. Biden has said he wants to compete with China rather than start a trade war, and has moved to maintain tariffs put in place 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 and has called for increased humanitarian aid, but he faces growing criticism from many Democrats over his handling of the Gaza war. A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed the party is divided on the issue.
The May 7-14 survey found that while 38% of registered Democrats support pro-Palestinian protests at U.S. universities and cities over the conflict, the same percentage say they do not. There is.
President Biden in May suspended certain bomb shipments to Israel in continued efforts toward a ceasefire, but Israel has vowed 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 she withdrew from the race before votes were cast.
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 polls overall, he was supported by 13% of respondents in a May Reuters/Ipsos poll, and could siphon votes from Trump and Biden.
Mr Kennedy, the son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 while running for president himself, has drawn rebuke from prominent families who have 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 has also vowed to rescind parts of Biden's climate change bill, citing tax breaks that help the oil industry.
Kennedy has taken a variety of positions on abortion rights, including limiting when women can obtain abortions.
He told Reuters he thinks all abortions are a “tragedy” but that it should be a woman's right “throughout her pregnancy.” He said he would still make the vaccine available to Americans, despite years of criticism for making false medical claims about the vaccine.
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 has said he is officially running in several states, including California, Michigan and Utah, but running in all 50 states would be a difficult and expensive battle.
cornel west
A political activist, philosopher and scholar, he is running as a third-party candidate for president, a position most likely to appeal to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
Mr West, 70, initially ran as the Green Party candidate but announced in October that he would run as an independent, saying people “want better policies than partisan politics”. He has pledged to eradicate poverty and guarantee 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, 74, raised millions of dollars for Mr. Trump's recount after Mr. Trump's surprise victory in 2016. Her claims resulted in just one election poll showing Trump won in Wisconsin.
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