
Who's running for president in 2024? Meet the candidates, likely candidates — and the ones who've dropped out
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Washington — The 2024 presidential campaign is underway, with five Republicans still seeking their party's nomination, and President Biden announcing his reelection bid with a video released on April 25, four years after he entered the race in 2020.
The field of GOP presidential hopefuls has shrunk as the first presidential contests have drawn near. With the Iowa caucuses just days away and the New Hampshire primary taking place Jan. 23, a lot can still change before voters in many states will head to the polls. Former President Donald Trump is considered the frontrunner among the Republican presidential hopefuls, but his pair of federal indictments by the Justice Department and two other indictments by local prosecutors in Georgia and New York could roil the ongoing presidential race.
Here is the current field of candidates, others who decided against it and those who dropped out.

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