2024年总统竞选正在形成，前总统唐纳德·特朗普 准备重返白宫，面对来自前共和党的竞争南卡罗来纳州州长。妮基·黑利，前阿肯色州州长阿萨·哈钦森和其他人。
以下是2024年谁将竞选总统的最新名单，并简要介绍了尚未确认计划的潜在竞争者，以及乔·拜登总统的立场寻求连任。也包括那些明确排除竞选的政客。
共和党人唐纳德·特朗普
76岁的特朗普，11月15日正式开始了他的第三次白宫竞选，在2022年中期选举后，没有达到共和党的预期。
特朗普在佛罗里达州棕榈滩的Mar-a-Lago庄园宣布竞选。这并不令人惊讶，因为特朗普几个月来一直暗示他将参选。
“美国的复苏现在就开始了，”他说，形容美国“正在衰落”，并将他的政府吹捧为“黄金时代”
然而，特朗普第三次竞选白宫之际，他面临多项调查-他否认有不当行为-并且在1月6日他的2020年之后，与共和党的其他一些领导人物越来越疏远选举谎言和其他争议和丑闻。
虽然民调显示他在党内仍然受到许多选民的欢迎，但也有许多人表示他们想要另一位提名人。
“美国的复苏现在就开始了，”他在宣布演讲中坚持说。
史蒂夫·拉菲，共和党人
罗德岛州克兰斯顿市前市长史蒂夫·拉菲于2月2日宣布参选总统。
在一份声明中，他说他想直面这个国家的问题。
“我们国家已经做了相当于用创可贴代替大手术的事情。不知何故，我们‘熬过来了’，”他说。"在一代人的时间里，我们第一次必须直面我们的问题。"
考虑到他相对缺乏知名度或全州或联邦的经验，拉菲是椭圆形办公室的一个长镜头。
他曾于2006年在罗德岛竞选参议员，对手是共和党人林肯·查菲，最终被民主党人谢尔登·怀特豪斯击败。
共和党人妮基·黑利
海莉，51岁，宣布她竞选总统在2月14日发布的一段视频中，这是2月15日在查尔斯顿正式开始的前一天。
哈利也曾在特朗普政府担任美国驻联合国大使，是第一个挑战特朗普的高调共和党人。
在她的声明视频中，移民的女儿哈利强调了她作为南亚妇女的传统，并宣扬了她对美国所能提供的充满希望的观点。
“我妈妈总是说，‘你的工作不是关注差异，而是关注相似之处。’我的父母每天都提醒我和我的兄弟姐妹，生活在美国是多么幸运，”哈利说。
她强调了自己作为棕榈州前领导人的资历，强调了该州的韧性，但最重要的是，她说共和党的候选人非常需要改变。
“在过去的八次总统选举中，共和党输掉了七次普选。…现在是新一代领导人的时候了，”她说。
黑利于2010年当选为南卡罗来纳州首位女州长，于2017年卸任，在她的第二个任期内担任特朗普大使，直到2018年。
共和党人维维克·拉马斯瓦米
拉马斯瓦米是一位37岁的百万富翁企业家，他创建了一家大型生物技术公司，2月21日宣布他将作为共和党人竞选总统。
拉马斯瓦米告诉记者:“塔克，我们正处于这场国家认同危机之中，我们长期以来一直在庆祝我们的多样性和差异，以至于我们忘记了我们其实和美国人一样，被一套共同的理想所束缚，这些理想在250年前推动了这个国家的发展。”福克斯新闻频道的塔克·卡尔森。
当被问及他对选民的信息是什么时，拉马斯瓦米说，“我们需要在生活的各个领域将优点带回美国”，这包括移民政策和肯定行动，他认为后者是“国家的癌症”。
在一个活动视频他在推特上分享说:“我们仍然同意我们国家最基本的原则，至少我们大多数人同意。然而，这个国家的执政党的目标是让我们相信我们是分裂的。”
这位印度裔美国企业家也是《沃克公司:美国企业社会正义骗局内幕》的作者。
共和党人佩里·约翰逊
75岁的密歇根商人约翰逊在3月1日开始的2023年保守派政治行动会议上，为2024年共和党提名发起了总统竞选。
约翰逊在CPAC总统候选人的民意调查中以近5%的得票率名列第三。虽然他在民调中落后于特朗普和佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯，但他领先于哈利和其他人。
虽然约翰逊没有当选公职的经验，但他在密歇根州的商业生涯很长。在质量标准领域拥有近30年的经验。他的两家公司——Perry Johnson Registrars和Perry Johnson，Inc都可以证明企业符合某些行业标准。
在CPAC之前，他最引人注目的政治竞选是在2022年竞选密歇根州州长时，但由于州官员发现欺诈和无效的请愿书签名，他在共和党初选前被取消了投票。
共和党人阿萨·哈钦森
72岁的哈钦森宣布他将于4月2日竞选总统在美国广播公司“本周”节目的采访中但他表示，官方发布会将于4月晚些时候在他的家乡举行。
“我要跑步了。原因是，我在这个国家旅行了六个月，我听到人们谈论我们国家的领导人。哈钦森对《本周》节目主持人乔纳森·卡尔说:“我相信，人们希望领导人能迎合美国的最佳品质，而不仅仅是迎合我们最糟糕的本能。”。
这位前州长已经成为共和党内对特朗普持怀疑态度的人，并向卡尔表示，他将寻求摆脱文化战争，回到一个以小政府理念为中心的政党——尽管他坚持认为自己不是“反特朗普”，尽管他呼吁前总统退出竞选他在纽约被起诉。
“当我说‘非特朗普’时，我希望能够对特朗普的选民说话。我希望能够对全体党员说，‘这就是我想要的领导，我认为我们需要边境安全。我认为我们需要一个强大的美国;我们需要在联邦层面减少支出。这些是我所代表的价值观，”哈钦森说。
哈钦森表示希望他在初选初期的个人风格能够带来回报。
“在许多这样的州，这仍然是零售政治，而且，这是我一生中见过的最不可预测的政治环境之一。因此，我的经验，一贯的保守主义和对我们未来解决美国人面临的问题的希望，我认为这引起了共鸣，”哈钦森告诉卡尔。
共和党人拉里·埃尔德
70岁的保守派脱口秀主持人埃德勒在4月20日宣布，他将寻求共和党总统候选人提名。
这位长期候选人在2021年的罢免选举中首次竞选公职，以取代加州民主党州长加文·纽瑟姆。纽森幸存了下来回忆努力虽然差距很大，但埃尔德在替补候选人中名列第一。
埃尔德在推文中说，“美国在衰落，但这种衰落不是不可避免的。我们可以进入一个新的美国黄金时代，但我们必须选择一个能把我们带到那里的领导人。这就是我竞选总统的原因。”
民主党人玛丽安娜·威廉森
70岁的威廉姆森首次在2月26日写给捐赠者的电子邮件中写道，这封邮件将在3月4日正式宣布她将作为民主党人竞选总统这是对拜登的长期初选挑战。
威廉姆森是一本畅销自助书籍的作者，他在2020年首次以和平主义和进步主义的平台竞选总统。
她在任何初选举行之前就退出了竞选，但她以令人印象深刻的选举履历战胜了其他几位严肃的竞争者，包括现任副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯，他当时是加利福尼亚州的参议员。
威廉姆森主张在没有军事干预的情况下解决外国冲突，并支持所谓的“全民医保”和15美元最低工资等进步平台。
她还因将她作为作家的职业生涯中的语言注入她的竞选活动而成为病毒般的轰动，并在2020年警告特朗普“我将利用爱情来达到政治目的。我会在战场上与你相遇，先生，爱情会胜利。”
“我们都在这里，因为我们关心这个国家。但我们都在这里，或者至少我们中的许多人在这里，因为我们对这个国家感到不安，我们担心这个国家，”她在她的启动演讲中说。“我们的工作是创造一个正义和爱的愿景，它是如此强大，以至于它将压倒仇恨、不公正和恐惧的力量。”
威廉姆森还指出，传统观点认为，她将面临一项几乎不可能完成的任务，即在初选中击败拜登，将自己塑造成一名反对当权派的斗士。
“对于那些无意让任何不符合他们预定议程的人加入这场对话的势力，我并不天真，”她说。
民主党人小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪
69岁的肯尼迪于4月19日在波士顿的波士顿公园广场宣布竞选2024年民主党总统候选人提名。
“我今天来这里是为了宣布我将竞选民主党提名的美国总统候选人，”他在竞选启动仪式上说，并指出他的竞选和总统任期的目标将是“结束国家和企业权力的腐败合并。”
作为罗伯特和埃塞尔·肯尼迪的孩子，小肯尼迪是一名律师和活动家，考虑到他的家族在民主党内的遗产，他一直在讨论利用固有的知名度进行竞选的可能性。
然而，他也可能给竞选活动带来一些争议，因为他有充分的证据证明他努力质疑疫苗的使用。在网上，他在整个新冠肺炎疫情煽动关于疫苗授权的阴谋，并在华盛顿特区的反疫苗授权集会上公开发表两极分化的立场
自2000年以来，这位候选人一直对疫苗犹豫不决，已经成为最突出的声音在反疫苗运动中，据专家称，作为儿童健康防御的创始人，这是一个主要以反疫苗努力而闻名的非营利组织。
乔·拜登总统竞选连任
80岁的拜登一再表示，他打算在2024年竞选连任，除非遇到一些重大问题，如健康问题。然而，这位民主党人还没有正式宣布决定。
助手们告诉盟友，他们可能是准备宣布竞选连任最快在4月25日星期二，也就是他宣布2020年的四周年纪念日。
“我的意图从一开始就是要跑。但是在我开始竞选之前，我们有太多其他的事情要在短期内完成告诉美国广播公司新闻主播大卫·穆尔二月在白宫。
拜登(姓氏)告诉穆尔2021年12月，与特朗普复赛的可能性不会阻止他。
“我为什么不与唐纳德·特朗普争夺提名呢?这将增加跑步的前景，”他说。
对潜在总统候选人的审视
其他潜在的白宫候选人名单包括汉普郡州长克里斯·苏努努和南卡罗来纳州参议员蒂姆·斯科特等，以及佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯，他在竞选中淡化了对他的雄心的质疑消息人士告诉ABC新闻他私下表示，他将在5月或6月发起一场运动。
德桑蒂斯表示，目前他专注于担任佛罗里达州州长，他在11月以19个百分点的巨大优势再次当选。在该州夏季立法会议结束之前，可能不会有任何宣布。
57岁的斯科特在4月12日内战爆发周年纪念日宣布，他将成立一个总统竞选委员会，同一周，他计划在爱荷华州、新罕布什尔州和他的家乡南卡罗来纳州停留。
斯科特在一段视频中说:“在捍卫让美国与众不同的保守价值观方面，我永远不会退缩。”。
作为参议院唯一的黑人共和党人，斯科特几个月来一直在考虑参选。
“过去几个月我想了很多，”他给支持者写了一封电子邮件。“我一直在思考我的信仰。我一直在思考我们国家的未来。我一直在思考左派毁掉美国的计划。”
当参议员在提前投票的州试水时，一个探索委员会将允许他为总统竞选筹集资金。
与此同时，苏努努公开表示，他正在考虑入主白宫，并在美国广播公司2月份的“本周”节目中表示，他“肯定会考虑这个问题，并进行这些对话。”
另一个可能的参选人是前副总统迈克·彭斯，他因特朗普有能力推翻2020年的选举结果而与特朗普决裂。彭斯去年告诉美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)的穆尔，他正在考虑竞选，并一直在前往早期的初选州，传达主要关注社会问题的信息。
“我祝她一切顺利。2月15日，当被问及对海利的声明的看法时，他开玩笑说:“妮基·黑利大使在我们的政府中做得很好，她可能很快会在总统竞选中有更多的同伴，我向爱荷华州的人们和你们所有人保证，我会随时向你们通报情况。”
谁没在跑步
3月5日，马里兰州州长拉里·霍根(Larry Hogan)成为第一个考虑竞选总统的主要共和党人，他说他不会参加2024年的竞选。
霍根在一份声明中表示，他不会“冒险成为另一场多车连环相撞的一部分，这可能有助于特朗普夺回提名，”正如特朗普在2016年在一个分裂的领域赢得共和党提名时所做的那样。
前国务卿迈克·蓬佩奥4月14日，他成为又一位高调宣布不会寻求党内提名的共和党人。
“说这个决定是个人的，这是最简单也是最准确的，”蓬佩奥在一份声明中说声明。“对我和我的家人来说，现在不是合适的时机。”
他继续说:“随着总统的领导变得更加必要，还有更多机会，这些机会的时机可能更加合适。”。
Who is running for president in 2024 and who might run
The 2024 presidential race is taking shape, with former President Donald Trump mounting a comeback bid for the White House, facing GOP competition from former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and others.
Here's an updated list of who is running for president in 2024 and a brief look at the potential contenders who have not yet confirmed their plans -- as well as where President Joe Biden stands on seeking reelection. It also includes those politicians who have definitively ruled out a campaign.
Donald Trump, Republican
Trump, 76, formally launched his third bid for the White House on Nov. 15, following the 2022 midterms, which did not meet Republican expectations.
Trump announced his campaign from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. It didn't come as a surprise, given that Trump had been hinting for months that he would make a run.
"America's comeback starts right now," he said, describing the U.S. as "in decline" and touting his administration as a "golden age."
However, Trump's third run for the White House comes as he faces multiple investigations -- he denies wrongdoing -- and has become increasingly estranged from some other leading figures in the GOP in the wake of Jan. 6, his 2020 election lies and other controversies and scandals.
While polling shows he remains popular with many voters in the party, many others say they want another nominee.
"America's comeback starts right now," he insisted in his announcement speech.
Steve Laffey, Republican
The former mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, Steve Laffey announced his candidacy for president on Feb. 2.
In a statement, he said he wanted to confront the country's issues.
"Our country has done the equivalent of using Band-Aids in place of major surgery. Somehow, we have 'gotten by,'" he said. "For the first time in a generation, we must directly confront our problems."
Laffey is a long shot for the Oval Office, given his relative lack of name recognition or statewide or federal experience.
He previously made a run for Senate in 2006 in Rhode Island, against Republican Lincoln Chafee, who was ultimately defeated by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.
Nikki Haley, Republican
Haley, 51, announced her presidential bid in a video released on Feb. 14, a day ahead of a formal kickoff on Feb. 15 in Charleston.
Haley, who also served as a U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in the Trump administration, is the first high-profile Republican to challenge Trump.
In her announcement video, Haley, the daughter of immigrants, highlighted her heritage as a South Asian woman and touted her hopeful view of what America can offer.
"My mom would always say, 'Your job is not to focus on the differences but the similarities.' My parents reminded me and my siblings every day how blessed we were to live in America," Haley said.
She underscored her credentials as a former leader of the Palmetto State, stressing its resilience, but most of all she said there was a major need for change in the GOP's candidates.
"Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. … It's time for a new generation of leadership," she said.
Haley was elected as the first female governor of South Carolina in 2010, stepping down in 2017, during her second term, to serve as a Trump ambassador until 2018.
Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican
Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old multimillionaire entrepreneur who founded a major biotech company, announced on Feb. 21 that he is running for president as a Republican.
"We are in the middle of this national identity crisis, Tucker, where we have celebrated our diversity and our differences for so long that we forgot all the ways we're really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago," Ramaswamy told Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
When asked what his message to voters will be, Ramaswamy said that "we need to put merit back into America in every sphere of our lives" -- which includes immigration policy and affirmative action, the latter of which he argued was "a national cancer."
In a campaign video shared on Twitter, he said: "We still agree on our nation's most fundamental principles, at least most of us do. Yet the goal of the ruling party in this country is to convince us that we are divided."
The Indian-American entrepreneur is also the author of "Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam."
Perry Johnson, Republican
A 75-year-old Michigan businessman, Johnson launched his presidential campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination amid the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference that began on March 1.
Johnson took third in CPAC's straw poll for presidential picks, with nearly 5% of the vote. While he polled behind Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, he was ahead of Haley and others.
While Johnson has no experience in elected office, he has a long career in business in Michigan. with almost 30 years of experience in the quality standards field. Two of his companies -- Perry Johnson Registrars, and Perry Johnson, Inc. -- both can certify businesses as meeting certain industry standards.
Before CPAC, his most notable political bid was when he ran for governor in Michigan in 2022 but was removed from the ballot before the Republican primary due to what state officials found to be fraudulent and invalid petition signatures.
Asa Hutchinson, Republican
Hutchinson, 72, announced he would run for president on April 2 during an interview on ABC's "This Week" but said an official launch would not take place until later in April in his home state.
"I am going to be running. And the reason is, I've traveled the country for six months, I hear people talk about the leadership of our country. I'm convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America, and not simply appeal to our worst instincts," Hutchinson told "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
The former governor has emerged as a Trump skeptic within the Republican Party, and indicated to Karl that he would seek to veer away from culture wars and return to a party centered around the idea of small government -- though he insisted he's not "anti-Trump," despite calling on the former president to drop out of the race over his indictment in New York City.
"When I say 'non-Trump', I want to be able to speak to the Trump voters. I want to be able to speak to all of the party and say, 'This is the leadership that I want to provide, and I think that we need to have border security. I think we need to have a strong America; we need to spend less at the federal level.' These are the values that I represent," Hutchinson said.
Hutchinson expressed hope that his personal style in early primary states could pay dividends.
"It's still about retail politics in many of these states and also, this is one of the most unpredictable political environments that I've seen in my lifetime. So my message of experience, of consistent conservatism and hope for our future in solving problems that face Americans, I think that that resonates," Hutchinson told Karl.
Larry Elder, Republican
Edler, 70, a conservative talk radio host, announced on April 20 that he was seeking the Republican nomination for president.
The long shot candidate first ran for elected office in 2021 in the recall election to replace California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom survived the recall effort by a wide margin, but Elder placed first among the replacement candidates.
In a tweet, Elder said, "America is in decline, but this decline is not inevitable. We can enter a new American Golden Age, but we must choose a leader who can bring us there. That's why I'm running for president."
Marianne Williamson, Democrat
Williamson, 70, first wrote in an email to donors on Feb. 26 that would formally announce on March 4 that she is running for president as a Democrat, in a long shot primary challenge to Biden.
Williamson is a bestselling self-help book author who first ran for president in 2020 on a pacifist and progressive platform.
She dropped out of that race before any primaries were held, but she outlasted several other serious contenders with impressive electoral resumes, including now-Vice President Kamala Harris, who at the time was a senator from California.
Williamson has advocated for solving foreign conflicts without military intervention and embraced progressive platforms like so-called "Medicare for All" and a $15 minimum wage.
She also became a viral sensation for infusing her campaign with language from her career as an author, warning Trump in 2020 that "I'm going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field, and sir, love will win."
"We're all here because we care about this country. But we're all here, or at least many of us are, because we are upset about this country, we're worried about this country," she said in her launch speech. "It is our job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful, that it will override the forces of hatred and injustice and fear."
Williamson also noted the conventional wisdom that she will face a nearly impossible task of unseating Biden in a primary, casting herself as a fighter against the establishment.
"I'm not naive about the forces which have no intention of allowing anyone into this conversation who does not align with their predetermined agenda," she said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democrat
Kennedy, 69, announced his bid for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination at the Boston Park Plaza in Boston on April 19.
"I've come here today to announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States," he during his campaign launch, noting that the aim of his campaign, and presidency, would be to "end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power."
As the child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, the younger Kennedy, an attorney and activist, has been discussing the possibility of a run with the benefit of built-in name recognition, given his family's legacy within the Democratic Party.
However, he is also likely to bring a dose of controversy to the campaign trail given his well-documented efforts to discredit vaccine use. Online, he has fueled conspiracies regarding vaccine mandates throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and publicly voiced polarizing positions at an anti-vaccine mandate rally in Washington, D.C.
The candidate has espoused vaccine hesitancy since the 2000s, has become one of the most prominent voices in the anti-vaccine movement, according to experts, as the founder of Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit organization known mainly for its anti-vaccine efforts.
Where President Joe Biden stands on reelection bid
Biden, 80, has repeatedly said he intends to run for reelection in 2024 barring some major issues such as his health. However, the Democrat has not officially announced a decision.
Aides have told allies they could be ready to announce a reelection run as soon as Tuesday, April 25, which would be the four-year anniversary of his 2020 announcement.
"[M]y intention has been from the beginning to run. But there's too many other things we have to finish in the near term before I start a campaign," he told ABC News anchor David Muir at the White House in February.
Biden told Muir in December 2021 that the possibility of a rematch with Trump wouldn't dissuade him.
"Why would I not run against Donald Trump for the nominee? That'll increase the prospect of running," he said.
A look at potential presidential candidates
The list of other potential White House hopefuls includes Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, among others, as well as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has played down questions about his ambitions even as sources have told ABC News he's privately indicated he'll launch a campaign in May or possibly June.
DeSantis has said for the time being he's focused on serving as governor of Florida, an office he was reelected to in November by a mammoth 19-point margin. An announcement would likely not come before the state's legislative session is over in the summer.
Scott, 57, announced on April 12 -- the anniversary of the start of the Civil War -- that he was launching a presidential exploratory committee, the same week he had stops scheduled in Iowa, New Hampshire, and his home state of South Carolina.
"I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional," Scott said in a video.
The only Black Republican in the Senate, Scott has been flirting with a bid for months.
"I've been doing a lot of thinking the past few months," he wrote an email to supporters. "I've been thinking about my faith. I've been thinking about the future of our country. And I've been thinking about the Left's plan to ruin America."
An exploratory committee will allow the senator to raise money for a presidential campaign while he tests the waters in early-voting states.
Sununu, meanwhile, has been open that he's mulling a White House run, saying on ABC's "This Week" in February that he's "definitely thinking about it and having those conversations."
Another possible entrant is former Vice President Mike Pence, who broke with Trump over his ability to overturn the 2020 election results. Pence told ABC News' Muir last year that he was thinking about a bid and has been traveling to early primary states with a message focused largely on social issues.
"I wish her well. Ambassador Nikki Haley did a great job in our administration, and she may have more company soon in the race for president, and I promise folks here in Iowa and all of you I'll keep you posted," he teased on Feb. 15 when asked about Haley's announcement.
Who isn't running
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on March 5 became the first major Republican mulling a presidential bid to say he will not run in 2024.
Hogan said in a statement that he would not "risk being part of another multicar pileup that could potentially help Mr. Trump recapture the nomination," as Trump did in 2016 when he won the GOP nomination amid a splintered field.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on April 14 became another high-profile Republican to announce he wouldn't be seeking the party's nomination.
"It is simplest, and most accurate, to say that this decision is personal," Pompeo said in a statement. "This is not the right time for me and my family."
"There remain many more opportunities for which the timing might be more fitting as presidential leadership becomes even more necessary," he continued.
