©Reuters. Former U.S. president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally ahead of the New Hampshire primary election in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S. on January 19, 2024.REUTERS/Elizabeth Franz/File Photo
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(Reuters) – Former Republican President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are vying to be their party's presidential nominee in the 2024 general election, but President Joe Biden has effectively defeated him as the Democratic nominee. It has become. Several third-party candidates are also running.
Here is the list of candidates.
donald trump
Trump will use his civil suit and four criminal indictments – unprecedented for a former US president – to boost his popularity among Republicans and raise money, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. , helped make him the Republican front-runner with a 64% approval rating. He won early nomination races in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada and is pushing to replace the Republican National Committee leadership with powerful allies of his own ahead of the party's nominating convention in July.
President Trump, 77, called the indictment a political witch hunt to prevent him from running for another four years in office, but the Justice Department denied this claim. Several legal challenges have reached the U.S. Supreme Court over his eligibility to vote and whether he can claim presidential immunity in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. If re-elected, Trump has vowed revenge on those he considers his enemies and has adopted increasingly authoritarian language, including saying he will not be a dictator “except on day one.”
He has promised other sweeping reforms, including gutting the federal civil service to install loyalists and imposing tougher immigration policies, including mass deportations and abolishing birthright citizenship. There is. He also pledged to repeal Obamacare health insurance, more severely restrict trade with China and signaled he would not defend his NATO allies.
nikki haley
Haley, 52, a former South Carolina governor and President Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, emphasizes her relative youth compared to Biden (81) and Trump, and her background as the daughter of Indian immigrants. did.
She had earned a reputation within the Republican Party as a staunch conservative who was able to address issues of gender and race in a more authoritative manner than many of her colleagues. But President Trump has increasingly targeted her, launching racist attacks on her ethnicity and falsehoods about her eligibility for the White House despite being born in South Carolina. It also amplifies the claims of
Haley, who received 19% support among Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, stepped up her attacks on Trump following the January 23 New Hampshire election, in which Trump threatened donors. As a result, $1 million was raised. She also pitched herself as a staunch defender of America's interests abroad, citing President Trump's admiration of dictators, arguing that President Trump is too confused and divisive. They are increasingly asserting that it is not effective.
She has indicated she intends to remain in the race beyond the Feb. 24 primary in her home state, where polls show she is trailing Trump, and his campaign said: He has slammed Trump's RNC reform plan, saying it requires a thorough review of the party and a financial audit.
Democratic Party
joe biden
At 81, Biden, already the oldest U.S. president in history, is being asked by voters to give him four more years in office amid slumping approval ratings and a special counsel report suggesting he is suffering from memory loss. You will have to convince them that you have the strength to continue. Biden has slammed the report, and his allies say they believe he is the only Democratic candidate who can defeat Trump and protect democracy. The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Biden at 34% and Trump at 37%, with a margin of error of nearly 2.9 percentage points.
In announcing his candidacy, Biden declared the need to protect American freedoms and pointed to the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021. Vice President Kamala Harris is once again the running mate.
The economic situation will also be taken into consideration in his re-election. The U.S. has avoided a predicted recession and is growing faster than economists expected, but inflation will reach a 40-year high in 2022 and the prices of essential goods weigh on voters. . Mr. Biden has pushed for a massive economic stimulus and infrastructure spending package to expand U.S. industrial production, the latter of which has received little praise from voters.
Mr. Biden has led Western governments' responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, persuaded allies to impose sanctions on Russia and aid Kiev, supported Israel in its conflict with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, and pushed for more. They have asked for humanitarian aid. But he has faced harsh criticism from some Democrats for not supporting a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory, with health authorities in the Gaza Strip saying more than 28,400 people have been killed and thousands of buildings damaged or destroyed. The report states that residents lack food and water. and medical supplies.
Biden's immigration policy has also been criticized by Republicans and Democrats, after the number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border hit a record high under the Biden 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 run a long fight against Biden because he did not believe the president could win re-election.
The 55-year-old billionaire businessman and co-founder of a gelato company announced his candidacy in a one-minute video posted online, saying: We're going to fix America. ”
Phillips failed to win any delegates in South Carolina and finished second in New Hampshire. He did not appear on the Nevada ballot.
independent person
Robert F. Kennedy JR
Kennedy, 70, an anti-vaccination activist, is running as an independent after initially challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination, but he is far behind in opinion polls.
Some recent Reuters/Ipsos polls suggest that Kennedy could have a more negative impact on Biden than Trump in the presidential election, and that even if a third-party candidate does not win, it will affect the outcome of the U.S. election. was shown to have an impact. A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Trump leading Biden by 6 percentage points, despite having the option to vote for third-party candidates, including Kennedy, who had an 8% approval rating. .
Mr. Kennedy is the son of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 while running for president. A surprise Super Bowl ad that featured his relationship with his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, infuriated his family and prompted him to apologize.
He was banned from Instagram for spreading misinformation about vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic, but later returned. He also lost a lawsuit to force YouTube owner Google (NASDAQ:) to reinstate his videos questioning the safety of coronavirus vaccines.
cornel west
The political activist, philosopher and academic said in June that he would launch a third-party bid for president that would likely appeal to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 70, initially ran as a Green Party candidate, but in October he announced he would run as an independent, saying people “want better policy than partisan politics.” He promised to eradicate poverty and guarantee his housing.
Jill Stein
Physician Jill Stein on November 9th re-announced her candidacy for the Green Party in 2016, accusing Democrats of repeatedly betraying promises “for workers, young people and the climate.” On the other hand, the Republican Party has not even made such a promise from the beginning. “
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.
