President and Vice President has seven candidates, a far cry from the twenty-one candidates four years ago.
Claudia de la Cruz and Karina Garcia, the Socialism and Liberation party. The first item on their platform page states, "The 100 largest corporations in America should be seized from their billionaire owners and turned into public property – owned by the working class that created their vast wealth in the first place." For those who are confused, *this* is what socialism actually looks like. It's a bold platform, but...
Rachele Fruit and Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers party. They appear to not have a campaign website. There are a few articles about Rachele Fruit, including one from February when Margaret Trowe was her running mate, but nothing that gives a sense of a campaign platform. No thank you.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Democratic party. Their site includes 80 pages of platform initiatives (PDF, or you can read on the website). Agree with it or not, but don't pretend she doesn't have any policies.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Nicole Shanahan, We the People party. They were too late in dropping out of the race to be removed from the VT ballot. RFKJr's website claims Biden cut his Secret Service protection in retaliation for endorsing Trump, but he's been lying about this for over a year.
Chase Oliver and Mike Ter Maat, Libertarian party. They have a platform page that lays out libertarian ideals, without much detail on implementation.
Donald Trump and JD Vance, Republican party. Right now (Sunday, Oct 20) when I go to donaldjtrump.com, that address redirects to https://secure.winred.com/trump-national-committee-jfc/lp-website-fry-cook. If I go direclty to the URL of a subpage of their campaign site, like https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform, I remain on the donaldjtrump.com domain. The redirect feels really weird for a major campaign; at first I thought someone had hacked the main site and redirected to a joke page, but Trump really did "work" at McD's today. At any rate, the "official" RNC platform is 16 pages, or 1/5 the size of Harris's. Project 2025 is considerably larger, but we are supposed to believe that it's not the plan for Trump's second term.
Cornel West and Melina Abdullah, Peace and Justice party. They have a platform page centered around justice; there is considerably more detail here than on the Libertarian platform.
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