Factbox-Who are the Republican candidates running for U.S. president?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Ten Republican candidates are seeking their party's nomination to take on Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden in the November 2024 election.
Here is a list of the leading candidates.
DONALD TRUMP
Donald Trump, 77, has embraced his indictments in four separate criminal cases — unprecedented for a former U.S. president — which have boosted his popularity among Republicans and helped to make him far and away the front-runner in his party's race for the presidential nomination.
Trump has called the indictments part of a politically motivated witch hunt to thwart his pursuit of a second four-year term, an assertion that the Justice Department has denied. In a sign of his extraordinary hold on his party, just two rivals at the first Republican presidential debate said they would not support him as the nominee if he were convicted.
Trump has vowed to enact tougher immigration restrictions and harsher curbs on trade with China, and to carry out political reprisals against those he perceives have wronged him. Trump has a firm grip on his party's right wing but may struggle to get moderates and independents to support him in a general election should he win the Republican nomination.
RON DESANTIS
After a glitch-filled campaign launch in May on Twitter, now called X, DeSantis has positioned himself to the right of Trump on a number of key social issues such as abortion. But his well-funded campaign has struggled to gain traction, and his top donor has said he won't give the Florida governor more money unless he adopts a more moderate approach.
DeSantis, 44, is Trump's top rival, but remains some 40 percentage points behind the former president in opinion polls. He has fired staff and rebooted his campaign
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