2023-06-07 22:56:05
In 2016 the race of primaries to win the presidential nomination Republican Party came to have 17 candidatesa number never seen before and that ended up benefiting Donald Trump, who took advantage of the division of the vote among other contenders. Now, the former president returns to lead the fight, and although the field of applicants to be measured in 2024 to the democrat Joe Biden has not broken the record is once again overcrowded, with 12 official candidatesto which some more could still be added.
These are the aspirants to achieve the nomination in the caucus and primaries process, which will open early next year in Iowa and New Hampshire and from which a winner will emerge who will be ratified in the Republican party conventionwhich will take place in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) from July 15 to 18, 2024.
These are the names in the fight.
Donald Trump
The former president of 76 years, officially launched his third assault on the White House in November. The polls show it for now in a clear leadership, with more than 53% support in the average that Real Clear Politics maintains, more than 30 points above Ron DeSantis, his main rival, and at a great distance from all the other candidates.
Trump, what’s next? without conceding his loss to Joe Biden in 2020, is making a personal campaign, very focused on revenge for that loss. And he keeps the support of an important part of the bases, despite his role in storming the capitol already the multiple legal fronts that he has open, which include having become the first former president charged with criminal charges and a sentence in a civil case to pay five million dollars for a sexual assault and potential new charges for irregular handling of classified documents and for his actions after the last presidential.
The large number of rivals, who will compete among themselves to wrest votes from him, may once again work in his favor.
Ron DeSantis
The governor of Florida, who achieved his second term with a landslide victory in the legislative elections last November, is presented to the 44 years as a generational change for Trump.
Dumped with commitment and legislative effectiveness in far right causesand raised as a champion of the fight everything ‘woke’DeSantis, who was a congressman before taking office in Tallahassee, has become a national conservative icon.
After months of avoiding direct combat with Trump, who, seeing him as the main threat, focuses his attacks on him, has begun to be harsher when criticizing or responding to the former president since he officially launched his candidacy. But like the rest of the candidates, he treads carefully so as not to alienate the important bases of the party that continue to support the former president.
Nikki Haley
the one that was two-time Governor of South Carolina and then eAmbassador of the Trump Administration to the United Nations is the Only woman in the Republican race.
The 51-year-old Haley speaks like DeSantis of “a new generation of leadership.” And she was the first who decided to challenge Trump, but the ambiguity that she has shown towards the former president, even after the assault on the Capitol, can take its toll on her, especially with moderate voters who want to turn the page.
Mike Pence
Former congressman and former governor of Indiana, Trump’s vice president has taken the step at the age of 64 to try to enter the White House on his own merit.
“Christian, conservative and republicanin that order”, as he himself says, raises a question ultraconservative agenda which may be especially liked by white Christian evangelical voters. But it remains to be seen if he can overcome the direct rejection of the voters most faithful to Trumpism from the MAGA movement.
Vivek Ramaswamy
Multimillionaire entrepreneur of the sector of the biotechnologyand former CEO of a company pharmaceuticalthe 37-year-old political novice presents himself as a ‘anti-wake’ candidate.
Like Haley, he traces his family roots to India, and like DeSantis, he is a graduate of Harvard and Yale.
Tim Scott
South Carolina Senator 57 years is he only black Republican in the upper house. Not excessively known at the national level, he will have to fight Haley for his state’s votes, the third of the primary appointment.
A good fundraiser and potentially attractive to donors and prominent party figures, he raises a conservative agenda but focuses on hope and optimism, also appealing to talk about the potential of the American dream to his personal history, since he was raised with economic difficulties by a single mother after her father abandoned her and made it all the way to Washington.
Chris Christie
The former governor of New Jersey is Trump’s only rival who has already tried to win the nomination in the past, precisely in 2016, the year of Trump’s coronation. It has been launched this time with a aim even more immediate than the White House: knock out Trump and get him out of the Republican Party.
Despite the forcefulness and fierceness of her attacks on Trump, Christie drags the burden of having supported the former president and collaborated with him until the previous elections. She also has the highest rejection rate among Republican voters.
Asa Hutchinson
He two-time former governor of Arkansas, 72, He has an extensive career in public service, including as a congressman, prosecutor, and administrator of the DEA, the federal drug enforcement agency.
As other candidates propose return to traditional republicanism and he has denounced the drift of the party in the Trump years, whom he has been the only one to urge to leave the race after his criminal indictment in New York.
Doug Burgum
He Governor of North Dakotacurrently in his second term, has so far been the Last to join the race.
Of 66 years and former businessman in the technology sector, where with his software company he made a significant fortune that can help him maintain his career, Burgum has little recognition at the national level and is at the head of the third least populated state in the US
Los ‘outsiders’
Larry Elder, Ryan Binkley y Perry Johnson they complete the current list of candidates, although the last two do not have enough support or recognition to even register in the polls.
Elder, a 71-year-old former attorney, was a conservative radio star and has been a regular commentator on Fox News. He made his first political assault trying to replace California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a 2021 no-confidence vote, an effort in which he miserably failed. During that campaign he was accused of various incidents of gender violence by a woman who was his producer and fiancée. As the only black candidate alongside Senator Scott, he could benefit from the support of black Republican voters in the primaries.
Binkley, 55, is a Texan religious pastor and founder of a business group dedicated to mergers and acquisitions and is running as a candidate who can create a bridge between Republicans, Democrats and independents.
Johnson, 75, is an entrepreneur and author specializing in international quality control standards. He has already unsuccessfully tried to run for governor of Michigan, a race in which he was discredited for signature-gathering fraud. He proposes cutting 2% of federal spending each year.
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