Who are the declared candidates running for president in 2024?
4. Former President Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to become the first president since Grover Cleveland to recapture the Oval Office four years after losing reelection. Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
Amid Trump’s quest to return to the White House, the candidate has faced an indictment from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The indictment has caused the former president’s supporters to rally behind him and even some of his rivals for the nomination have condemned it as politically motivated.
The indictment in Manhattan and his subsequent indictments over an improper possession of classified documents, provoking the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot and efforts to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election are expected to loom large in the general election campaign.
Following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe, abortion has emerged as a key campaign issue. The Trump campaign has drawn the ire of pro-life organizations, who supported his presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020, for suggesting that the issue of abortion should be left up to each individual state to decide and that congressional Republicans should not pursue any federal legislation on the matter.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, vowed to “oppose any presidential candidate who refuses to embrace at a minimum a 15-week national standard to stop painful late-term abortions while allowing states to enact further protections.” She characterized the assertion that abortions should be left to the states to decide as “a morally indefensible position for a self-proclaimed pro-life presidential candidate to hold.”
In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference last March, Trump addressed the hot-button issues surrounding body mutilating sex-change surgeries on youth struggling with their sexual identities and allowing men to compete on women’s sports teams. He promised to “revoke every Biden policy promoting the chemical castration and sexual [mutilation] of our youth” and asked Congress to “send me a bill prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states” and enact policies that “keep men out of women’s sports.”
According to The Green Papers, Trump has secured nearly 2,000 of the 2,429 delegates available at the Republican National Convention, making him the presumptive Republican nominee. He has won 75.5% of the popular vote.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: [email protected]
