The 2024 presidential election is right around the corner and because Joe Biden, the democrat incumbent, is running for reelection, there are just three democrats willing to challenge him for a chance at the presidency.
One of the Democratic candidates is Robert F Kennedy Jr, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy. RFK Jr is known for both his environmental work as a lawyer and his anti-vax stance. Kennedy’s position against vaccines is strong: during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kennedy compared mandates for the vaccine to Hitler’s reign in Germany and has continued to promote unsupported conspiracy theories.
His campaign claims that an RFK Jr presidency will entail honest governance. According to the campaign, he intends to reconcile the nation, battle environmental issues, and reinstate peace through change in civil liberties and racial healing. Kennedy inherited a deep appreciation and commitment to improving the lives of Native Americans by fixing the federal government’s unfair dealings and broken treaties with the nations tribes. Kennedy plans to lead the country to reconciliation across races, parties, and divisions. He wants to ensure that Americans are united around safe and healthy food, pure water, clean air, living rivers, healthy forests, grasslands, and wetlands. Freedom of speech is of high priority for Kennedy as well as tackling the humanitarian crisis at the border. RFK Jr is inspired to protect the civil rights of African Americans and Native Americans partly because of his father, RFK Sr, who championed equality.
The next candidate is Marianne Williamson, a failed 2020 presidential candidate who has continued to make a big splash with her progressive political agenda. She attempted to run for a seat in the US House of Representatives in 2014 but lost. She was the first Democratic to challenge incumbent President Biden for the 2024 election. Williamson’s campaign is intent on taking democracy back from corporate influence and improving the working economy. Williamson is also known for her self- help books, which helped launch her campaign to address climate change and student loan debt. The Williamson administration aims to have proper healthcare for pregnant women, proper prenatal care, universal pre-K, mindfulness training in school, anti-trauma services for at-risk families, and more economic justice for women and children. Her campaign includes establishing higher taxes on the wealthy, large corporations, and Wall Street, in order to reduce taxes on the working class. Furthermore, Williamson supports universal healthcare and wants to end prescription drug price gouging. A large part of her platform is making education affordable by offering free tuition to public colleagues including community colleges. She also plans to develop trade schools where students experience real world occupations. Williamson is willing to forgive all student debt so students can pursue their dream careers without having the burden of student debt.
The final candidate is incumbent President Joe Biden. Although Biden’s approval ratings hover around a mere 40%, political experts report that he is the most probable candidate to win against Donald Trump. Biden has worked in politics for over five decades, and is running on a platform that includes abortion rights, gun reform, and healthcare. Biden aims to control the Covid-19 pandemic, provide economic relief, combat climate change, and improve racial equity and civil rights. He plans to make healthcare more affordable and of better quality for Americans. He will take action to strengthen the U.S. national security workforce, reconstruct democratic alliances around the world, and promote America’s values and human rights for the middle class to succeed in the global economy.The 2024 presidential election is definitely one for the books. With one former president running from the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump and the current Democratic president, Joe Biden, running for reelection. There are seventeen total candidates, thirteen Republicans, three Democrats, and one third party candidate. Even though there are seventeen of them, they are running under the shadows of the two primary candidates from the 2020 election: President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump.
