Who wants to be President?
Published 8:00 am Friday, August 9, 2024
As of Aug. 8, who is on the November 2024 ballot for president of the United States? Here are the candidates still in the race, and a brief summary of some of their major campaign positions.
Democrats
Current Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, for President
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, 60, for Vice President
Campaign positions
- “We must restore the protections of Roe. What the United States Supreme Court took away, Congress can put back in place.”
- “Whereas the last administration gave tax cuts to billionaires, we gave tax cuts to families through the child tax credit, which cut child poverty in America by half.”
- As Harris makes more public appearances as a presidential candidate in her own right, not just as Joe Biden’s vice president and running mate, she will outline more policies and themes that she will run on for the remainder of 2024.
Republicans
Former President Donald Trump, 78, for President
Ohio Senator JD Vance, 40, for Vice President
Campaign positions
- Support legislation that represents a “record investment” in police
- Pardon “a large portion” of the people convicted of federal offenses for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
- Sign an executive order instructing federal agencies to “cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age”; punish doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors.
- “Get something done” on abortion; has declined to specify how many weeks into a pregnancy he would support a ban; has said a federal ban would need to include exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother.
Third Party candidates
1 — Independent
Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 70, for President
Attorney Nicole Shanahan, 38, for Vice President
Campaign positions
- “Dismantle the censorship-industrial complex, in which Big Tech censors, de-platforms, shadow-bans, and algorithmically suppresses any person or opinion the government asks them to.”
- “Transform the police”; “train them in de-escalation and mediation skills and partner them with neighborhood organizations.”
- “Significantly drop the level of chronic disease in our children.” (Kennedy has blamed childhood vaccines for autism.)
- “Lead the way toward national reconciliation”; “take racial healing seriously through a program of Targeted Community Repair.”
2 — Independent
Activist Cornel West, 71, for President
California State Univ. Professor Melina Abdullah, 51, for Vice President
Campaign positions
- “Wealth tax on all billionaire holdings and transactions”; “national $27 minimum wage”; “establish a federal Universal Basic Income commission”
- “Transform Paid Family Leave to mandate a minimum of six-months fully paid time off”; “institute a four-day work week”; “national free pre-K childcare”
- “Immediate cessation of all oil and gas leasing projects on federal lands and waters”; “federal moratorium on fracking, carbon capture, and direct air capture technologies, geoengineering, and other false climate solutions”
- “Codify abortion rights as a Constitutional mandate”; “nationalize the healthcare industry, including the pharmaceutical industry”
3 — Green Party
Physician Jill Stein, 74, for President
Vice Presidential candidate TBD
Campaign positions
- Establish “an Economic Bill of Rights, including the right to a living-wage job, housing, food, healthcare, education and more”
- Establish a Green New Deal “with massive investment in green jobs, industries, and technologies”
- Promises “to put an end to the shameful legacy of systemic discrimination against women, Black and Brown people, Indigenous people, immigrants, people with disabilities, the LGBTQIA+ community, and other marginalized groups”
- “End the endless wars”; create new foreign policy “based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights to oppose violence, occupation, and apartheid.”