Besides former president and great favorite Donald Trump, six candidates including governors, businessmen and a pastor are seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for the US presidential election in November 2024.
They will all face each other in Iowa’s Jan. 15 primary, hoping to be picked to try to defeat Democrat Joe Biden at the polls.
Donald Trump
Despite his four felony convictions and threats to drop out of the race in several states, the former president (2017-2021) continues to outperform the rest of the Republican candidates in the polls.
The 77-year-old real estate magnate, who won the 2016 elections, is fully involved in his re-election campaign and has described the investigations and procedures opened against him for alleged election rigging, financial issues in 2020 as a “witch hunt”. A questionable payment to a former porn actress or the mishandling of confidential White House files.
In 2024, the businessman will have to conduct optional trials and rallies.
Two states, Colorado and Maine, have deemed him “ineligible” to return to the White House in 2021 for his alleged role in an attack by supporters on the Capitol, which has plunged the campaign into uncertainty.
As long as the US Until the Supreme Court rules on the matter, the ballot will continue to include the former president, who denies any wrongdoing.
Nikki Haley
A former governor of the state of South Carolina and former United States ambassador to the UN, she is the only woman to appear in a Republican primary.
At 51, he is the new standard bearer of the American right and is battling Ron DeSantis for second place in the polls.
During the Republican debates he distanced himself from his rivals with a more moderate stance, particularly on abortion.
Although she openly criticized Donald Trump’s post-election crusade for alleged fraud that was never proven, Nikki Haley never denied her career and even favored pardoning him “for the good of the country” if elected.
She was criticized for refusing to mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War.
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis, 45, the governor of the state of Florida, has for some time embodied the next generation of the Republican Party, but the former US Navy officer’s popularity rating has fallen in polls since he entered the race in late May. .
He stands out for his radical views on immigration and education issues, about race and gender, and they accuse him of lacking charisma.
Vivek Ramaswamy
He made his fortune in biotechnology and described environmental activists as a “religious cult”. At 38, this complete political novice is hoping his provocative and incisive speech will carry him to Washington.
He likes to see himself as “Trump 2.0” and is fourth in the polls for the Republican primaries.
Chris Christie and others
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 61, a onetime supporter of Donald Trump, has been the candidate most critical of the former president, whom he describes as self-centered and dishonest.
Chris Christie, known for his combative style, also doesn’t mince words with his other rivals. He specifically condemns the former president for his reluctance to condemn his actions.
Your chances of getting elected are limited. Neither did former governor Asa Hutchinson and Texan pastor and businessman Ryan Blinkley.
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