US presidential elections 2024: Two stories from two different worlds, Harris and Trump as you’ve never seen them before – BBC News Arabic

Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was the son of German immigrants, and his mother, Mary Anne McLeod Trump, was born in Scotland. Trump entered the New York Military Academy when he was 13 years old.

Harris spent five years at high school in Montreal, Canada, where her mother was a professor at McGill University. She later enrolled at Howard College, a historically black university, in Washington, DC.

Trump said his five years at the academy, which began in 1959, gave him military training and helped shape his leadership skills. After that, he did not participate in the Vietnam War because of five suspensions – four for academic reasons and one because of bone spurs.

From Kamla Harris’s childhood, her mother instilled in her the importance of the civil rights movement, and she also attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s annual Freedom Martin. in Washington in 2004.

As for Trump, after graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he became a favorite candidate to succeed his father in running the family business.

Harris returned to California, where she made rapid progress in the state’s criminal justice system, took over as district attorney, and rode that momentum to win election to the US Senate in 2016.

At the time Harris entered Congress, Trump was entering the White House for the first time, having stunned the world by defeating Hillary Clinton.

Three years later, Harris ran a weak presidential campaign, but Joe Biden, who won the Democratic primary, chose her as his running mate, and they proved to be a successful duo, defeating on Trump and Mike Pence.

The end of the Trump presidency and the beginning of the terms of Biden and Harris saw the imposition of Covid lockdown restrictions and the social unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis.

Harris had some problems identifying as Vice President, but she was able to make her position known in 2022 when the US Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion.

President Biden was pleased to have her as a key representative in the White House of the pro-choice movement.

As for Trump, he tried to make the Supreme Court more conservative, which paved the way for the decision on abortion.

During his tenure in the Oval Office, Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and took steps to reduce immigration.

Harris’ first international trip as vice president was to Guatemala in 2021, as part of her commitment to limit the numbers of Latin American migrants who reach America’s southern border with Mexico.

Among the foreign policy issues that have affected her tenure are the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, along with the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

While Trump’s first trip outside the United States as president was to Saudi Arabia in 2017, he supports isolationist policies aimed at isolating his country from foreign conflict and business. Strengthen America.

Harris is married to Doug Emhoff (pictured below), who campaigns for her, and is stepmother – or “Momala,” as she likes to call herself – to Emhoff’s children since his first marriage, Cole (left) and Ella (right).

Several of Donald Trump’s family members have played a role in his political career, but the appearance of his wife, former First Lady Melania Trump, in the 2024 campaign has been limited.

Trump had three children with his first wife, Ivana: Donald Jr. (second from left pictured below), Ivanka (second from right) and Eric (right) He also had a daughter, Tiffany (left), from left Second wife, Marla Maples, married his third wife, Melania (third from left), in 2005, and has one son, Barron.

Harris entered the 2024 presidential race at a relatively late stage, replacing Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race.

Harris made history as the first woman of African and Asian descent to lead the presidency of a major party, and then delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

In the same election, Donald Trump achieved the rare distinction of being nominated for a third term by his party, and delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with bandages over his ears after his survive an assassination attempt during the campaign. .