Because the election marketing campaign and debates intensify, let’s be taught in regards to the prime contenders within the race: Kamala Harris from the Democratic Social gathering and Donald Trump from the Republican Social gathering.
Kamala Harris
Indian origin Kamala Devi Harris’ nomination was an attention-grabbing one. She introduced her candidacy after the present US President Joe Biden opted to finish his marketing campaign following controversy in a debate efficiency. Biden withdrew his candidature a couple of weeks after the marketing campaign started and Kamala Harris was nominated on July 21. Listed here are a couple of attention-grabbing issues to notice:
- Harris is the primary Black lady and first Asian American lady to contest within the US President race from a significant political occasion.
- Although Harris grew up in Oakland and spent her profession in California, her ancestry will be traced again to India’s Tamil Nadu. She is the daughter of Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist and Donald J Harris, a Jamaican native. She has a sister Maya Lakshmi Harris.
- She was the Lawyer Basic of California from 2011 to 2017 and was the primary African American, and the primary South Asian American to carry the workplace.
- She was the US Senator from 2017 to 2021 the place she was hailed for her prosecutorial questioning type throughout hearings.
- Harris is married to Doug Emhoff, and his step mother to Cole and Ella.
Donald Trump
78 yr previous Donald Trump was the forty fifth US President and held the workplace from 2017 to 2021. An economics graduate from the College of Pennsylvania, Trump was into actual estates, and was a actuality tv star earlier than his political profession started. Listed here are a couple of attention-grabbing issues to notice:
- Trump doesn’t imagine in exercising and considers it as a waste of time and power. He believes the human physique is a battery with solely a finite quantity of power and train depletes it sooner.
- Trump’s favourite film is Citizen Kane. “I feel you be taught in Citizen Kane that perhaps wealth isn’t every little thing. As a result of he had the wealth, however he didn’t have the happiness,” he mentioned in a 2002 video interview.
- He was the third president in US historical past to be impeached by the U.S. Home of Representatives and the one president to be impeached twice-once in 2019 and as soon as in 2021.
- In 2020, he was defeated by Joe Biden by 306 votes.
- On July 13, throughout a marketing campaign rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania Trump had a slender escape from an assassination try the place a bullet grazed his ear.
Different candidates exterior of the key events who’re contesting for the President publish are Cornel West, Jill Stein and Chase Oliver. Tim Walz and JD Vance are working for Vice President place.
