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Throughout an predetermination campaign, US voters are bombarded with images of the 2 candidates - speaking from podiums, greeting rally crowds and stepping down craft stairs. Here's a antithetic ocular position of who they are and wherever they've travel from.
Long earlier they adjacent knew what the White House was... Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are pictured supra some aged three.
Decades apart, Democratic statesmanlike nominee Harris spent her aboriginal years successful Oakland, California, and Republican nominee Trump was raised successful the New York borough of Queens.
Harris (left successful the left-hand representation below) and her sister Maya (centre) were chiefly brought up by their Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a crab researcher and societal activist.
Trump's begetter Fred Trump was the lad of German immigrants and his parent Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was calved successful Scotland. They enrolled him successful the New York Military Academy astatine property 13.
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Harris spent 5 years astatine precocious schoolhouse successful Montreal, Canada, wherever her parent took up a teaching occupation astatine McGill University. She aboriginal enrolled successful the historically achromatic college, Howard University successful Washington DC.
Trump has said his 5 years astatine the academy, which began successful 1959, gave him subject grooming and helped signifier his enactment skills. He aboriginal sat retired the Vietnam War owed to deferments - 4 for world reasons and 1 owed to bony spurs.
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From an aboriginal age, Harris was taught by her parent the value of the civilian rights question and she attended the yearly Martin Luther King Jr Freedom March successful Washington successful 2004.
After earning a grade from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Trump became favoured to win his begetter astatine the helm of the household business.
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Harris returned to California, wherever she roseate swiftly to the apical of the state's transgression justness strategy - taking a occupation arsenic its lawyer wide - and utilized that momentum to equine a palmy tally for the US Senate successful 2016.
At the aforesaid clip arsenic she entered Congress, Trump was stepping into the White House for the archetypal time, having stunned the satellite to decision Hillary Clinton.
Three years aboriginal Harris ran a lacklustre statesmanlike campaign, but was picked by the victor of the Democratic race, Joe Biden, to beryllium his moving mate. They proved to beryllium the winning ticket, defeating Trump and Mike Pence.
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The extremity of the Trump presidency and the commencement of the Biden-Harris word were marked by Covid lockdowns, disguise mandates and societal unrest pursuing the constabulary sidesplitting of George Floyd successful Minneapolis.
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Harris struggled astatine times to marque her people arsenic vice-president, but recovered her dependable successful 2022 erstwhile the US Supreme Court ended the law close to abortion.
President Biden was blessed for her to go the White House champion for the pro-choice movement.
It was Trump who had made the Supreme Court much conservative, paving the mode for the termination ruling.
During his clip successful the Oval Office, helium besides took the US retired of the Paris clime accord and took steps to trim immigration.
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Harris's debut planetary sojourn arsenic vice-president was to Guatemala successful 2021, arsenic portion of the work she was fixed to trim the numbers of Latin American migrants reaching America's confederate borderline with Mexico.
Foreign argumentation issues that person dominated her clip successful bureau see the wars successful Ukraine and Gaza, arsenic good arsenic the chaotic US unit withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Trump's archetypal sojourn overseas arsenic president was to Saudi Arabia successful 2017. Trump advocates isolationist policies that impact disentangling his state from overseas conflicts and promoting American industry.
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Harris is joined to Doug Emhoff (pictured below), who campaigns regularly connected her behalf. She is stepmother - oregon "Momala", arsenic she says - to Emhoff's children from his archetypal marriage, Cole (left) and Ella (right).
Various members of Donald Trump's household person played roles successful his governmental career, though appearances successful the 2024 run by his wife, erstwhile First Lady Melania Trump, person been limited.
With his archetypal wife, Ivana, Trump had 3 children: Donald Jr (second near successful the little picture), Ivanka (second right) and Eric (right). He had a daughter, Tiffany (left), with his 2nd wife, Marla Maples. He joined his 3rd woman Melania (third left) successful 2005, with whom helium has 1 son, Barron.
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Harris entered the 2024 statesmanlike contention comparatively precocious successful the process, replacing Joe Biden who pulled out.
She made past arsenic the archetypal achromatic and Asian-American pistillate to pb a large party's statesmanlike ticket, and went connected to springiness a code astatine the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago, Illinois.
In the aforesaid election, Donald Trump earned the uncommon favoritism of earning a 3rd statesmanlike information from his party. He spoke astatine the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin - sporting a bandaged receptor aft surviving the archetypal of 2 assassination attempts during the campaign.
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