Presidential Candidate: Jill Stein is a Write-In candidate

Age: 74

Party Affiliation: Green Party (focuses on saving the earth)

Campaign Slogan:  People, Planet, Peace

Biographical Information: Jill is from Chicago, Illinois and she graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979. She now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with her husband Richard Rohrer, also a physician, and her two sons.

Career: She practiced medicine in Boston for 25 years. She also worked as an instructor in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Political Experience: Jill previously ran in the 2012 and 2016 elections. She was also the Green-Rainbow Party’s candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.

Issues Stressed in Campaign: Anti-war stance, free public education, universal healthcare, strong worker rights, and an eco-socialist “real Green New Deal”

Website:  https://www.jillstein2024.com/

Presidential Candidate: Donald Trump

Age: 78

Party Affiliation: Republican

Campaign Slogan:  Make America Great Again!

Biographical Information:  He was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946. He went to the New York Military Academy and the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career: He was employed by his father’s real estate company, Trump Management, in 1968.  In 1971 he took over and became president of this company over his father.

Political Experience: He served as President of the United States for one term, January 17, 2017- January 17, 2021.

Issues Stressed in Campaign: Vowed to lower prices and to seal the border completely. He has also pledged to get rid of drug cartels and gang violence, as well as rebuild cities that have been overrun with crime.

Website: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

Presidential Candidate: Kamala Harris

Age: 59

Party Affiliation: Democrat

Campaign Slogan:  Let’s win this!

Biographical Information:  Born on October 20,1964 in Oakland, California.  Graduated from Westmount High School and Howard University in 1986. She attended UC Law in San Francisco.

Career:  Elected DA of San Francisco in 2003, and Attorney General of California in 2010.  First black, South Asian female  to become VP and to run for the presidential office.

Political Experience: 49th vice president under President Joe Biden. Created jobs, kept unemployment number at a low, created more small business creation than any previous administrations. Capped the cost of insulin at $35.00 a month, cut prescription prices, improved mental health by expanding postpartum care through Medicaid.

Issues Stressed in Campaign: She has led a fight for freedom of women to have the right to make more choices regarding their bodies, a fight to live safe from gun violence, and a fight for the freedom to vote.

Website:  https://kamalaharris.com/

Presidential Candidate: Cornel West is a Write-In candidate

Age:  71

Party affiliation: Independent

Campaign Slogan:  Truth, Love, & Justice

Biographical information: Cornel West was born June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Cornel West went to Princeton University and Harvard University.

Career: Cornel West is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual who taught at Harvard and Princeton. Cornel West was also the first black person to receive a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton University.  He has written 20 books and has produced three music albums. He is currently the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary.

Political Experience: Cornel West has never held a political office.

Issues stressed in campaign: Fighting for a society and world based on justice, equality, and the empowerment of poor and working class people of all colors.

Website: https://www.cornelwest2024.com/

Presidential Candidate: Chase Oliver is a Write-In candidate

Party Affiliation: Libertarian

Slogan:  Empower Your Future

Age:  39

Biographical Information: Born in Nashville, Tennessee.

Career:  Worked in the restaurant industry for 13 years.

Political Experience: Political activism including against the over-militarization of police in Atlanta, Georgia; against clear-cutting forests that had previously been designated as public open space in Atlanta, Georgia; against regulatory hurdles preventing the feeding of the homeless in Columbia, South Carolina.  Supported Barack Obama in 2008 presidential election; ran unsuccessfully in 2020 for Georgia’s 5th congressional district; ran unsuccessfully in 2022 for U.S. Senate in Georgia.

Issues Stressed in Campaign:  Restructuring the two-party system, inflation, and high cost of housing.

Website:  https://votechaseoliver.com/