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Here are the Republican Party's two candidates:
DONALD TRUMP
Trump has leveraged his civil cases and indictments in four
separate criminal cases - unprecedented for a former American
president - to boost his popularity among Republicans and raise
funds, helping to make him the Republican frontrunner with 64%
in the latest Reuters/Ipsos polling and victories in the first
two nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. He is also
poised to secure Nevada's delegates.
Trump, 77, has called the indictments a political witch hunt to
thwart his pursuit of a second four-year term, an assertion that
the Justice Department has denied. He also faces a legal
challenge that has reached the nation's top court regarding his
eligibility for the ballot following the Jan.6 attack on the
U.S. Capitol. If elected again, Trump has vowed revenge against
his perceived enemies and has adopted increasingly authoritarian
language, including saying he would not be a dictator except "on
day one."
He has promised other sweeping changes, including gutting the
federal civil service to install loyalists and imposing tougher
immigration policies such as mass deportations and ending
birthright citizenship. He has also promised to eliminate
Obamacare health insurance and impose harsher curbs on trade
with China.
NIKKI HALEY
A former South Carolina governor and Trump's ambassador to the
United Nations, Haley, 52, has emphasized her relative youth
compared to Biden, 81, and Trump, as well as her background as
the daughter of Indian immigrants.
She had gained a reputation in the Republican Party as a solid
conservative who has the ability to address issues of gender and
race in a more credible fashion than many of her peers. But
Trump has increasingly targeted her, including racist attacks on
her ethnicity and amplifying false claims about her eligibility
for the White House despite her birth in South Carolina.
Haley, who drew 19% support among Republicans in the Reuters/Ipsos
survey, has sharpened her attacks on Trump following New
Hampshire's Jan. 23 contest and raised $1 million after Trump
threatened her donors. She has also pitched herself as a
stalwart defender of American interests abroad, citing Trump's
praise of dictators, and ramped up her argument that Trump is
too chaotic and divisive to be effective.
She has suggested she will stay in the race past the Feb. 24
primary in her home state, where opinion polls show she trails
Trump.
(Compiled by the Washington newsroom; editing by Susan Heavey
and Jonathan Oatis)
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