Meet the Candidates
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Kamala D. Harris
Born October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California.
She graduated from Howard University and University of California Hastings College of Law.
1990, Harris was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California.
1994, California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown appointed her to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later to the California Medical Assistance Commission.
1998, she was recruited as an assistant district attorney. There, she became the chief of the Career Criminal Division.
2000, Harris ran the Family and Children's Services Division representing child abuse and neglect cases.
2002, Harris ran for District Attorney of San Francisco and won.
2011 Kamala was sworn in as California Attorney General and was re-elected in 2014.
2016, she was elected senator of California.
2020, Biden announced that he had chosen Harris as his running mate.
2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are elected, she now serves as Vice President of the United States.
2024, Kamala Harris now runs for President of the United States
AS SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT ATTORNEY:
Granted probation to a violent criminal who then murdered two men.
Shielded convicted crack dealers suspected of being illegal immigrants from federal immigration officials.
AS CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL:
Opposed concealed carry permits for law-abiding citizens unless they could "demonstrate an extraordinary need to carry a gun beyond concern for personal safety."
Categorized rape of an unconscious person, human trafficking involving sex acts with minors, assault with a deadly weapon, and more as "non-violent" crimes, allowing inmates who committed those offenses to receive earlier parole.
Fought for policies for tax-payer funded sex-change surgeries for transgender prisoners.
Prevented an appeals court from considering DNA evidence that could have exonerated a man on death row.
AS U.S. SENATOR:
Co-Sponsored Bernie Sanders's $32-trillion socialist government healthcare takeover plan that would raise taxes, increase national debt, and functionally eliminate private health insurance.
Co-Sponsored Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's $93-trillion Green New Deal which would kill up to 2 million American jobs and cost the average American family $165,000.
Encouraged donations to a fund that bailed out now-convicted rapists, assaulters, and murderers. Asked for YOUR support:
AS VICE PRESIDENT:
Failed on the economy, with inflation reaching a 40-year high and grocery prices rising over 21%
Failed as Border Czar, allowing over 10 million people to enter the U.S. illegally.
Crippled domestic oil & gas production, driving gas prices up over 30%
Flip-flopping stance on irreversible "gender-affirming" surgeries for minors.
Has repeatedly praised her pastor/mentor who blamed America for 9/11.
Ignored victims' requests to release names in child molestation files, instead protected the offenders.
SOURCES: 1, SFGATE, Aug. 7, 2007, "New details on man who confessed to killing editor / Oalkland police don't think he acted alone, he was on probation for robbery-assault", San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 12, 2011, "Devaughndre Broussard gets 25 years for killing Chauncey Bailey and a second man", 2. SFGATE, July 1, 2008. "8 crack dealers shielded by SF. walk away. SFGATE, July 31, 2008, "Minutemen protest S.F's sanctuary policy" 3. Times of San Diego, February 28, 2014, "Attorney General Harris Acts to Reverse Ruling on Carrying Concealed Guns. 4, Daily Mail, July 30, 2024, "Outrage at Kamala Harris as pedophile who brutally raped and murdered eight-year-old neighbor is set to go free thanks to woke California juvenile justice law VP authored" 5. https://k.com/KamalaHarris/status/1267555018128965643, Fox 9, August 10, 2020, "Minnesota nonprofit with $35M bails out those accused of violent crimes." 6, 53804-Medicare for All Act of 2017, Health Policy Center, Research Report, May 2016, "The Sanders Single-Payer Health Care Plan: The Effect on National Health Expenditures and Federal and Private Spending", NBC News. Democratic Presidential Debate, June 27, 2020, 7. Reuters, August 6, 2020, US Sen. Harris, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez offer environmental justice bill"; RealClear Energy, March 7, 2019, "Green New Deal to Cost Every US Household $65.000 a Year"; The Heritage Foundation, July 24, 2019. "Assessing the Costs and Benefits of the Green New Deal's Energy Policies. 8. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "All items in US city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted, US. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Food at home in US. city average, all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted": 9. US. Customs and Border Protection Statistics. Southwest Land Border Encounters: X, @GOP 9/14/2023: 10. https:/gasprices.aaa.com, New York Post. April 12.2024, "Energy prices soar almost 30 percent under Biden-13 times faster than previous 7 years analysis" https://www.foxnews.com/video/6360969917112
Timothy J. Walz
Born April 6, 1964 in West Point. Nebraska
Tim joined the National Guard after high school.
Tim graduated from Chadron State College and Minnesota State University, Mankato
1989, Walz begins his teaching career, also serving as football coach.
2004, Volunteers for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign
2005, Retires from the Army National Guard
2006, Wins first term in the U.S. House of Representatives
He was reelected consecutively from 2008 through 2016
2018, Elected governor of Minnesota
2022, Re-elected as governor
2024, Tim Walz now runs for Vice President
AS GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA:
Walz, a National Guard veteran, was in charge when Minneapolis was being burned to the ground during 2020 riots. The city waited FIVE DAYS for the National Guard, per Tim Walz failure to act.
Signed "Trans Refuge" legislation, allowing for minors to be removed from their parents custody in exchange for irreversible, harmful "gender-affirming" treatments and surgeries.
"I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening."
-Gwen Walz, potential Second Lady.
Instituted a hotline number for people to report those violating social distancing guidelines.
That's right: Walz's government maintained a method for people to report their neighbors for failing to abide by social distancing rules. Walz insisted in an interview that "one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness"
Gov. Tim Walz criticized President Donald Trump's plan to expand the barrier between the United States and Mexico, suggesting that the border wall is a business opportunity to
"invest in the 30-foot-ladder factory."
Meanwhile, our country is being flooded with illegal immigration...
Redesigned the Minnesota state flag.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/us/tim-walz-george-floyd-riots-minneapolis.html , https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minnesota-first-lady-gwen-walz-opens-up-about-covid-19-decisions-aftermath-of-george-floyds-death/ , https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/walzs-covid-hotline-could-become-point-of-attack-for-trump/ , https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-running-mate-faces-renewed-scrutiny-weird-socialism-comparison-resurfaces , https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tim-walz-turns-trumps-border-160019861.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAdwZu8_jQOUDpogEPK4NVuZof6ncnCslmgx4WXaPSEgQAQIxOJCZTBMFG56TRVmnh-yO1lxAD9VQhf6u0FEyFmSvo6e-HKTrR84DI_XdnJkbtmEx0AYIVZc1d5mw8tk9oq23O0kz6K5zENYQDkPGnrjYMiiZ2UbtG-LqttHGlim , https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/crow-wing-county-board-plans-to-take-concerns-over-new-flag-design-to-minnesota-governor/ https://www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily/Story/17865 , https://thehill.com/opinion/4847014-trans-refuge-walz-law/ ,
Donald J. Trump
Born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York.
1959, Trump attended the New York Military Academy.
Donald graduated Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
1970, Trump began working with his father on apartment complexes. The areas that they did most of their development was Brooklyn and Queens.
1971, He helped manage his father's extensive portfolio of residential housing projects in the New York City boroughs, and took control of the company - which he renamed the Trump Organization - in 1971
In 1976, Donald Trump partnered with the Hyatt Corporation. This deal included the purchase of an aging Manhattan property called the Commodore Hotel, which was reopened four years later as the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
1982, Completion of Trump Tower in Manhattan
1987, Donald Trump published "Trump: The Art of the Deal." The book became a best seller for 51 weeks and he made a commitment to donate a portion of the profits from the book to charities. To do this, he established the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
2004, Produced and hosted "The Apprentice"
2015, He announced that he will be running for president and was elected.
2016, Donald Trump is elected President of the United States.
2024, Trump now runs for President of the United States of America
Signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
Signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
Signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
Signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding moms.
Signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
Created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
Signed into law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
Signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill that enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes
Over 90% of those benefiting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
Trump’s U.S.D.A. committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
Appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.
Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims — serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018
Signed the first Perkins C.T.E. reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
Withdrew the U.S. from the job-killing TPP deal.
The Trump administration announced a total of $28 billion in aid for farmers in 2018 and 2019, and another $23.5 billion through the coronavirus stimulus package passed in March
Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.
Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
"As president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LBGTQ+ citizens from the violence and oppression of hateful foreign ideology."
- Donald J. Trump
JD Vance
Born August 2, 1984 in Middletown, Ohio
JD is a graduate of Yale Law School
2005, Vance was deployed to Iraq as an enlisted Marine
Vance studied political science and philosophy at Ohio State University, before moving on to Yale Law School.
2013, After graduating, he worked for corporate law firm Sidley Austin and for investment firms in California
2016, Vance's bestselling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" is published. He also launched a venture capital fund for startups outside of Silicon Valley
2022, He was elected Senator of Ohio
2024, JD Vance now runs for Vice President
Enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating high school.
Served in Iraq as a corporal with the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
JD's mother struggled with drug addiction and he was mostly raised by his grandmother.
He knows first-hand just how important the drug crisis in America is.
From a disadvantaged home to serving our military, graduating Yale, winning Senator, Vance has the drive to earn and fight for his accomplishments.
Growing up in Middletown Ohio with Kentucky roots, Vance has a working class perspective.