Three Republicans have entered the race
President Biden is expected to run
Likely to run
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Four years after a historically large number of candidates ran for president, the field for the 2024 campaign is starting out small and looks like it will be headlined by the same two aging men who ran in the general election last time: President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump.
A number of Republicans are expected to enter the race, butmost are taking their time to directly take on Mr. Trump, who still holds extraordinary sway with their party’s base. And Democrats are almost universally unwilling to challenge their own incumbent so long as he seems likely to run, no matter their misgivings.
So far, former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina is the only major Republican to formally announce a campaign against Mr. Trump. And no Democrats have yet announced a campaign.
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Republicans
Donald Trump
Former President and businessman
“Together, we will be taking on the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests imaginable. Our country is in a horrible state. We’re in grave trouble. This is not a task for a politician or a conventional candidate.”
Former President Donald J. Trump is running to retake the office he lost in 2020, then denied losing to the point of inciting a mob of his supporters to attack the United States Capitol. Though somewhat diminished in influence within the Republican Party — and facing legal investigations from state authorities and the Justice Department alike — he retains a large and extremely committed base of supporters, and he could be aided in the 2024 primary by multiple challengers splitting a limited anti-Trump vote.
Nikki Haley
Former governor and U.N. ambassador
“The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite history. China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied, kicked around. You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.”
Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and United Nations ambassador under Mr. Trump, has presented herself as a member of “a new generation of leadership” and emphasized her life experience as a daughter of Indian immigrants. She was long seen as a rising Republican star, able to eschew some extremes while maintaining base support, including after calling in 2015 for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol — but her allure in the party has declined amid her on-again, off-again embrace of Mr. Trump.
Democrats
Joe Biden
Current President
“Two years ago, our democracy faced its greatest threat since the Civil War. Today, though bruised, our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken.”
While President Biden has not formally declared his candidacy for a second term, and there has been much hand-wringing among Democrats over whether he should given his age, he is widely expected to run. He has cast himself as a protector of democracy and a stabilizing force after the upheaval of the Trump administration, and advertised bipartisan accomplishments like a major infrastructure bill. If he runs, his campaign will be a balancing act between that and support for Democratic priorities, like abortion rights, that Republicans staunchly oppose.
Source: Elections - nytimes.com
