The governor of Florida, who officially launched his race for the White House on Wednesday, joined a long list of contenders in the Republican camp. Overview
The battle of 2024 is launched in the United States. Republican Ron DeSantis announced his candidacy for the White House on Wednesday May 24. The candidacy of the governor of Florida was highly anticipated by Republicans seeking an alternative to Donald Trump. A month earlier, US President Joe Biden also said in a video that he was running for re-election.
For a year and a half of the election, several political figures have already announced their desire to embark on the race for the Democratic or Republican nomination with a view to the presidential election which will take place in early November 2024. Franceinfo lists them.
Among the Republicans
• Donald Trump
Is America about to witness a remake of the 2020 presidential election? Despite his indictment, former President Donald Trump stands out for the moment well above in the polls for the Republican primary. Whoever announced his candidacy in November could therefore be chosen by his party to face Joe Biden again in November 2024.
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Surrounded by investigations into financial affairs, his electoral pressures in Georgia in 2020 or even the management of his White House archives, Donald Trump threw himself headlong into his new electoral campaign, denouncing “a witch hunt”.
• Ron DeSantis
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his candidacy for the White House on Wednesday May 24. In video posted on Twitterthe forties, presented as the main challenger to Donald Trump for the nomination of the Republican Party, promised to “Leading America’s Great Comeback”. An expression that evokes the flagship slogan of Donald Trump’s victorious campaign in 2016: “Make America Great Again” (“Make America Great Again”).
In 2018, this former naval officer was narrowly elected head of the Southeast State after being supported by Donald Trump, whose ideas he shares, but not the excesses.
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Since then, he has distanced himself from the billionaire, and gained popularity by multiplying ultra-conservative outings on education or immigration in the name of a supposed “well-meaning”. “For me, the fight has only just begun”, he declared at the beginning of November after being largely re-elected as head of his state. The main handicap of the Florida conservative, father of three children? His lack of charisma, pointed out from all sides. And on which the Trump camp does not hesitate to attack it.
•Asa Hutchinson
Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, 72, announced his presidential candidacy on April 2. During this statement on the ABC channel (in English), he assured: “I believe I am the right time for America, the right candidate for our country and its future”. Criticizing Donald Trump, he added: “I’m convinced that people want leaders who appeal to the best of America and not just our worst instincts.”
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When he was governor, he signed several laws limiting access to abortion, including after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe vs. Wade ruling in June 2022. He said he regretted that the measure did not provides no exceptions for rape or incest, reports Associated Press (in English).
• Larry Elder
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Conservative radio host Larry Elder announced on April 20 that he was entering the presidential race. On Fox News (in English)the 71-year-old contestant said he had “a moral, religious and patriotic duty to give back to a country that has been so good to my family and me”. Larry Elder made himself known in 2022 during the recall referendum which targeted the Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom, and against which he was running. However, he failed to overthrow the Democrat, recalls The cross.
• Vivek Ramaswamy
A wealthy 37-year-old entrepreneur, Vivek Ramaswamy announced his candidacy on February 21. Born in Ohio, the candidate made his fortune in biopharmaceuticals. Conservative, he slays “wokism”. “America is mired in a national identity crisis (…) We embrace age-old religions like climatism, covidism and gender ideology to satisfy our need for meaning,” he said, quoted by Le Figaro (article reserved for subscribers).
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In an interview with NPR (in English) the candidate declared that he would not sign a law restricting abortion at the national level, but that he was personally anti-abortion.
• Nikki Haley
Former governor of South Carolina and ex-ambassador of the United States to the UN, Nikki Haley is currently the only woman to have launched for the Republican primary. Without ever having denied Donald Trump’s record, the fifty-year-old openly criticized his post-election crusade on an alleged fraud that has never been proven.
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• Tim Scott
Senator Tim Scott, also elected from South Carolina, openly dreams of being the first black Republican president. On Monday, May 22, the elected official announced his candidacy for the presidency by recounting his personal rise: that of a poor and black child from the southern United States raised by a single mother and a working grandfather in the cotton fields, tells RFI. “Joe Biden and the radical left are attacking all the floors of this social elevator which allowed me to rise”, he criticized.
Last November, the 57-year-old politician was already talking about his grandfather, who had voted for Barack Obama: “I wish he had lived long enough to see another president of color and this time it was a Republican!”
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• Mike Pence
After years of unwavering loyalty to Donald Trump, Mike Pence has changed his tune since the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. This 63-year-old evangelical Christian, a fierce opponent of abortion and marriage for homosexual couples, seems now determined to enter the race for the White House.
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The former vice-president thus criss-crosses the country, multiplying his speeches in states likely to make a difference during the Republican primaries.
Among the Democrats
•Joe Biden
“Let’s finish the job.” Joe Biden, 80, announced his intention to seek a second term on Tuesday, promising to return his “dignity” to the America of workers that his rival Donald Trump has partly been able to seduce. The tenant of the White House hammers a simple idea: he embodies the fight, still ongoing according to him, for freedom and democracy.
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The main handicap of the Democrat, whose popularity rating remains poor, remains his age. Never before had Americans elected such an elderly president; nor had a candidate ever asked them to leave him the keys to the White House until he was 86 years old.
• Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson, author of bestselling books on spirituality and wellness, announced her candidacy in the race for the White House in early March, four years after failing to break through in the Democratic primary.
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This 70-year-old woman is sometimes referred to as “Oprah Winfrey guru”. She was the first to officially join the Democratic camp.
•Robert Kennedy Jr.
Robert Kennedy Jr., nephew of the American president assassinated in 1963 and son of the former Minister of Justice killed in 1968, unveiled his candidacy for the American presidential election in mid-April. If the sexagenarian can boast of an illustrious name in American political history, his chances of success remain limited.
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A lawyer specializing in environmental issues, he has been known since 2005 to propagate conspiracy theories on vaccines, in particular linking autism to one of their components. In the crowd at its April meeting, several of its activists wore anti-vaccine caps.