He faces the former Republican president Donald Trump Vice President Kamala Harris in US presidential elections scheduled for November 5 after the Democratic President finished joe biden His bid for re-election.
A number of candidates from outside the two main parties are also running in the race, and the following is a list of candidates:
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Kamala Harris (Democratic Party)
Harris (60 years old) won the Democratic nomination after Biden ended his bid for a second term, and her candidacy for the Democrats allows her to present a different vision for the United States that contradicts Trump’s list of priorities as the party seeks to revive its affinity for young voters, people of color, and suburban women.
Harris, who has dark skin of Asian descent, became the first woman and person of color to hold the position of Vice President after Biden chose her to be his running mate in the 2020 elections. She will become the first woman to hold the position of President in the country's 248-year history if she wins next November.
Harris is a senator in the Senate, and previously worked as a prosecutor in California and a prosecutor in San Francisco.
Opinion polls show that Harris faces a close race with Trump.
Other opinion polls show that Harris and Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, her candidate for vice president, will run in a tight race in 7 swing states that will decide the outcome of the elections: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Michigan, and Nevada.
Harris has shown her support for reproductive rights and personal freedoms, as well as for a national law legislating the right to safely perform abortions. It has laid out an economic plan that includes proposals to cut taxes for most Americans, ban what it says is “price gouging” by retailers, and build more affordable housing.
She also proposed increasing the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%, and pledged to tighten immigration and fentanyl controls at the border.
Its positions on climate and energy are similar to those of Biden, who has made combating climate change a top priority.
Harris is seen as supportive of technology despite her criticism of alleged monopoly and privacy issues, and also seeks to assure donors that she supports capitalism.
Donald Trump (Republican Party)
Trump, 78, won the Republican nomination at the party's convention in July in his third attempt to reach the White House after losing the election in 2020.
Trump continues to repeat allegations that Democrats stole the 2020 election as he continues his bid to reach the White House amid unprecedented legal challenges, including a new indictment regarding his attempts to circumvent his loss in 2020.
Trump, who took office between 2017 and 2021, described the accusations he faces in four criminal cases as a political attack, vowed “revenge” on those he considers political enemies, and adopted conflicting rhetoric. He also made disturbing comments about the “enemy within” the United States, and threatened to deploy the army nationwide. Local.
Last May, Trump became the first former US president to be convicted of a crime in New York City, and also the first president to face impeachment proceedings twice. Trump denies any wrongdoing.
Trump refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 elections or ruling out possible political violence. He also pledged to pardon supporters imprisoned for the attack on the US Congress building on January 6, 2021, and described them as “warriors.” Trump threatened to prosecute Electoral College officials, donors, Google and others if he wins, and said he will not run again if he loses.
Trump is the oldest candidate in the US elections and will be the country's second-oldest president. Trump faced two assassination attempts, one during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in July, and the other in September near one of his golf courses in Florida.
Trump has made immigration a major issue in his domestic campaign, promising mass deportations, including granting legal immigrants from Haiti temporary protected status in Springfield, Ohio, as well as ending birthright citizenship and expanding travel bans on people from certain countries.
Regarding abortion, Trump praises himself for the US Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Trump said that the laws regulating abortion should be left to the states individually, and he said that he does not support banning birth control.
As for the economy, Trump would like to impose exorbitant duties on imported goods and on specific companies and countries. He pledged to end the imposition of taxes on tips and overtime work, reduce corporate tax rates, and open federal lands to foreign companies and foreign housing. He pledged to cancel many of the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change. .
Trump is facing criticism, including from some Republicans, for criticizing Harris personally, such as her race and gender.
Chase Oliver (Libertarian Party)
The Libertarian Party invited Trump to its convention, and ultimately chose Chase Oliver (39 years old). Oliver ran for a Senate seat in Georgia in 2022 and received 2% of the vote.
Jill Stein (Green Party)
- Doctor Jill Stein, 74, is trying to repeat her bid to run for the Green Party as she did in 2016. She accused Democrats of breaking their promises “to workers, young people, and the climate too many times, while Republicans don’t even make such promises in the first place.”
Cornel West (Independents)
Political activist, philosopher and academic Cornel West said in June that he would launch a third-party bid for president that might appeal to progressive, Democratic-leaning voters.
West, 71, initially sought to run for the Green Party but said in October that people “want good politics instead of partisan politics” and announced his candidacy as an independent, promising to eradicate poverty and provide housing.