Presidential Candidates in 2020

Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on January 20th 2021.

He is an actor, known for Parks and Recreation (2009), Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991) and Great Performances (1971). He has been married to Jill Biden since June 17, 1977. They have one child. He was previously married to Neilia Biden.

The Trump family were German immigrants. The family used the name Trumpf until they became American citizens. Donald Trump's father became a multi-millionaire by building tenements in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. After graduating from high school, Donald Trump studied economics at Fordham University and graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He gained his first professional experience in his father's company, and in 1974 he set up his own business in Manhattan. In 1975, Trump bought the old Commodore Hotel in New York and five years later he opened the Grand Hyatt Hotel New York. Donald quickly became known for his willingness to take risks. Trump quickly built up a considerable fortune through real estate in New York. In 1977 he married Ivana Trump. The marriage produced sons Donald Jr. (1977) and Eric (1984) and daughter Ivanka (1981). The divorce took place in 1992. In the 1980s, Trump divided his business areas into real estate, gaming, hotels and residential and commercial buildings, which were reunited under the umbrella of a holding company.

Trump achieved international popularity in 1983 with the construction of the "Trump Tower" on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The building is 202 meters high and has 58 floors. Like John D. Rockefeller, Trump created a monument to his wealth in New York. In 1989, Donald Trump acquired the American airline Eastern Airlines, which he renamed as "Trump Shuttle" after the purchase. However, following poor operating figures, the company was sold again after three years. In 1990, Trump opened a gigantic hotel-casino called "Trump - Taj Mahal" in Atlantic City near New York. However, the construction resulted in unexpectedly high expenses. In total, commitments totaling around $3 billion were outstanding from other projects. This meant that Trump and his corporate empire were on the verge of ruin in the early 1990s. After negotiations with investors and banks, Donald Trump managed to reorganize his obligations and thus made a comeback as a major investor. He was married to Marla Maple from 1993 to 1999.

In 1998, the "Trump - International Hotel and Tower" was inaugurated at Columbus Circle in Manhattan. In addition to rental income from the Trump Tower and other exclusive commercial buildings, various casinos in New Jersey and Florida as well as large leisure centers were now also among the empire's sources of income. All facilities and business areas had Trump's name in their logo. Based on ever new gigantic construction projects, one could only speculate about his wealth. Trump owned around ten office and residential towers in excellent locations in New York alone. In 2001, Trump completed the "Trump World Tower" in New York. The extremely sophisticated residential and commercial high-rise in Manhattan Midtown is 262 meters high and has 72 floors. From 2003 to 2004 and 2004 to 2005, he appeared on the US television show "The Apprentice", in which he sought employees for his corporate empire.

Two years after the decision to redevelop "Ground Zero," Trump came forward with a counterproposal in 2005. Instead of Daniel Libeskind's planned "Freedom Tower," Trump wanted to resurrect the destroyed twin towers of the World Trade Center. The plans of the American star architect of Japanese origin Minoru Yamasaki served as a template. Trump married Melania Knauss, 28 years his junior, on January 22, 2005. Their son Barron William was born in 2006. In 2007 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On June 16, 2015, Trump announced that he would run in the Republican primary as a candidate for the US presidential election in November 2016. In the first primary in the state of New Hampshire on February 9, 2016, Trump was able to clearly assert himself. He already had an absolute majority in May - thanks above all to his election slogan: "Make America great again". On July 19, 2016, Trump was officially elected as the presidential candidate at the Republican nomination convention in Cleveland. He formally accepted the election on July 21, 2016.

On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the US presidential election against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. His inauguration in Washington D.C. was set for January 20, 2017 in accordance with the constitution. As President of the United States, Donald Trump pursued a rigorous government policy in all matters right from the start - according to the election motto: "American first", which earned him many votes. Not only was and is directly affected by the international trade community, but also US citizens with a migrant background and migrants who want to come to America.

In 2019, the American president recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, thereby single-handedly bringing about a momentous paradigm shift in international Middle East policy - which was undesirable by many politically involved. In the same year, 2019, he refused to sign the UN arms trade treaty ATT (Arms Trade Treaty), which has regulated international standards for the trade in conventional weapons since 2014. In addition, Trump's presidency was shaken by, among other things, the Russia affair and the Ukraine affair, which brought him impeachment proceedings, which he survived thanks to the Republican majority in the Senate. The US head of government is shaping a new style of government with his extensive use of the news medium "Twitter" by repeatedly disseminating important government announcements and personal opinions there. He continually describes his poor relationship with the public press with the catchphrase "fake news" that he has made popular, and which often catches up with his critics. Trump won the 2024 Republican nomination for president, initially campaigning against incumbent Joe Biden. However, when Biden dropped his campaign, Kamala Harris was selected to run in Biden's stead. Trump defeated Harris with both a majority and electoral win to become the 47th president. He will be only the second president to have a non-consecutive second term in office (after President Grover Cleveland).

Jo Jorgensen was born on 1 May 1957 in Libertyville, Illinois, USA.

Brock Pierce was born on 14 November 1980 in Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for First Kid (1996), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) and The Mighty Ducks (1992).

Bernie Sanders was born on 8 September 1941 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception (1999), The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020) and FOX News Tonight (2016). He has been married to Jane Sanders since 28 May 1988. He was previously married to Deborah Shiling.

Tulsi Gabbard was born on 12 April 1981 in Leloaloa, American Samoa. She is a writer and producer, known for This Is Tulsi Gabbard (2021), The Tulsi Gabbard Show (2022) and American Gadfly (2022). She has been married to Abraham Williams since 9 April 2015. She was previously married to Eduardo Tamayo.

Elizabeth Warren was born on 22 June 1949 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She is an actress, known for Alpha House (2013), Maxed Out (2006) and Capitalism: A Love Story (2009). She has been married to Bruce Hartllng Mann since 12 July 1980. She was previously married to James Robert Warren.

Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served three terms as Mayor of the City of New York.

Michael Rubens Bloomberg was in Boston, the son of Charlotte (Rubens) and William Henry Bloomberg, an accountant. He is of Russian Jewish descent. He was raised in a middle class home in Medford, Massachusetts. Michael attended Johns Hopkins University, where he paid his tuition by taking out loans and working as a parking lot attendant. After college, he attended Harvard Business School and in 1966 was hired by a Wall Street firm, Salomon Brothers, for an entry-level job.

Bloomberg quickly rose through the ranks at Salomon, overseeing equity trading and sales before heading up the firm's information systems. When Salomon was acquired in 1981, he was let go from the firm. With a vision of an information technology company that would bring transparency and efficiency to the buying and selling of financial securities, he launched a small startup in a one room office. Today, Bloomberg LP is a global company that has more than 15,500 employees and offices in 73 countries around the world.

During his tenure as mayor, from 2002 through 2013, Bloomberg brought his innovation-driven approach to city government. He turned around a broken public school system by raising standards and holding schools accountable for success. He spurred economic growth and record levels of job creation by revitalizing old industrial areas, spurring entrepreneurship, supporting small businesses, and strengthening key industries, including new media, film and television, bio-science, technology, and tourism. Mayor Bloomberg's economic policies helped New York City experience record-levels of private-sector job growth often in formerly depressed neighborhoods, even in the wake of the deep national recession.

His passion for public health led to ambitious new strategies that became national models, including a ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces, as well as at parks and beaches. Life expectancy grew by 36 months during Mayor Bloomberg's twelve years in office. He launched cutting-edge anti-poverty efforts, including the Young Men's Initiative and the Center for Economic Opportunity, whose ground-breaking programs have been replicated across the country. As a result, New York City's welfare rolls fell 25 percent, and New York was the only big city in the country not to experience an increase in poverty between the 2000 Census and 2012. He also created innovative plans to fight climate change and promote sustainable development, which helped cut the city's carbon footprint by 19 percent. His belief that America's mayors and business leaders can help effect change in Washington led him to launch national bi-partisan coalitions to combat illegal guns, reform immigration, and invest in infrastructure. He was a strong champion of the city's cultural community, expanding support for artists and arts organizations and helping to bring more than 100 permanent public art commissions to all five boroughs.

Upon leaving City Hall, Michael Bloomberg returned to the company he founded while also devoting more time to philanthropy, which has been a top priority for him throughout his career. Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies employs a unique data-driven approach to global change that grows out of his experiences as an entrepreneur and mayor. In addition to Bloomberg Philanthropies' five areas of focus - public health, arts and culture, the environment, education, and government innovation - Bloomberg has continued to support projects of great importance to him, including his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, where he served as the chairman of the board of trustees from 1996-2001. The university's School of Hygiene and Public Health - the largest public health facility in the U.S. - is named the Bloomberg School of Public Health in recognition of his commitment and support. Bloomberg has donated more than $4.3 billion to a wide variety of causes and organizations.

As chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group from 2010 to 2013, Bloomberg drew international attention to cities' leading role in the fight against climate change. In 2014, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Bloomberg to be U.N. Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change where he is focusing on helping cities and countries set and achieve more ambitious climate change goals. In 2016, Bloomberg accepted World Health Organization director-general Margaret Chan's invitation to serve as the WHO global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases as part of the WHO's push to achieve UN goals of reducing premature NCD deaths by one-third by 2030, and halving the number of road deaths and injuries by 2020.

Michael Bloomberg is the father of two daughters, Emma and Georgina.

Amy Klobuchar was born on 25 May 1960 in Plymouth, Minnesota, USA. She has been married to John Bessler since 10 July 1993. They have one child.

Pete Buttigieg was born on 19 January 1982 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mayor Pete (2021), LEGACY AMERICA (2025) and The Silo (2002). He has been married to Chasten Buttigieg since 16 June 2018.

Tom Steyer was born on June 27, 1957 in New York City, New York. He attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in economics and political science, before receiving an MBA from Stanford Business School.

Steyer is business leader and philanthropist who resides in California. He is the founder and President of NextGen Climate, and the co-founder of Beneficial State Bank. Steyer is the executive producer of Becoming Bulletproof (2014), and La Mission (2009).

Deval Patrick was born on 31 July 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has been married to Diane Bemus since 5 May 1984. They have two children.

Mr. Andrew Yang has more than 15 years of experience in investment banking, asset management, and cross-border M&A transactions in Asia and the U.S. He has taken his financial expertise and channeled it into the film industry by financing and developing top-tier entertainment. Mr. Yang overseas the acquisition and development of exclusive content from A-List actors, directors and writers. He works with domestic and foreign corporations to create unique, innovative and world-class entertainment. Mr. Yang recently co-produced the feature film "Luce" starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth and Kelvin Harrison Jr. which will debut at 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Sam Sloan was born on 7 September 1944 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is an actor, known for Mahjong Horoki (1984), Clicker (2008) and Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011).

John Delaney was born on 16 April 1963 in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for MSNBC Reports (1996), America's Newsroom (2007) and CNN Newsroom (1989).

Cory Booker, elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, in 2006, came by his civil-rights activism at an early age. His parents, Carolyn Rose (Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM. Booker was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Harrington Park, a mostly white suburban town in northern New Jersey. He studied at California's Stanford University, earning a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in sociology. He was a star football player and was elected to the student government council. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to Queens College, Oxford, England, obtaining an honors degree in modern history in 1994. He met Rabbi Shmuley Boteach there and became president of the L'Chaim Society, an organization devoted to easing tensions between Jews and African-Americans.

After returning to the U.S., Booker attended Yale Law School, graduating in 1997. He then started several free legal clinics for low-income residents of the neighboring city of New Haven, CT. Returning to his home state of New Jersey, he was hired as a staff attorney for New York City's Urban Justice Center and then became Program Coordinator of the Newark (NJ) Youth Project. Although professionally and financially successful, in 1998 Booker moved into a Newark housing project called the Brick Towers, which was notorious for its run-down condition and festering crime problems. He led the project's tenants in their fight for improvements in housing, maintenance and security. That same year he won election to the Newark City Council in an upset victory over a four-term incumbent. The next year, as a council member, he went on a ten-day hunger strike to protest rampant and blatant drug-dealing in one of Newark's worst housing projects. In 2000 he spent five months living in a motor home, staying on streets in some of the most crime- and drug-infested areas of the city to get an idea of just how bad conditions were.

These and other tactics did not win him many friends in local government, and the many ordinances, city code revisions and laws he proposed were almost always voted down by his fellow council members. Frustrated at the resistance he met on the council, in 2002 he decided not to try for re-election but to run for the position of Mayor. His uphill battle against long-time mayor and veteran of Newark's brand of rough-and-tumble politics Mayor Sharpe James was chronicled in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Street Fight (2005) by filmmaker Marshall Curry. Although Booker made a strong showing, he ultimately lost the election.

In 2003 he started Newark Now, a nonprofit civic improvement group, became a partner in a West Orange (NJ) law firm and a senior fellow at Rutgers University's Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. In 2006 he again ran for mayor of Newark. However, incumbent mayor James, who had beaten him in the '02 election, suddenly decided to drop out of the race. James, who was also a state senator, picked a Newark deputy mayor to run in his place. However, on election day Booker soundly trounced James' candidate, taking more than 72% of the vote in the largest landslide victory in Newark's history. In addition, Newark voters swept out the entire City Council, replacing them with the slate of candidates endorsed by Booker, giving him solid control over the city government.

Booker's first few months in office were, to say the least, tumultuous. Shortly before taking office he sued the city of Newark in state court to stop it from selling city land at prices he felt were much too low. Although the outgoing City Council argued in court that selling the land cheaply was the only way to encourage improvement in the deteriorated inner city, the courts ultimately agreed with Booker and, in addition, noted that the former city council had ensured that many of the recipients of these bargain land deals were developers who had contributed to the council members' campaigns.

Also, an assassination plot against Booker by the leaders of several Newark street gangs was discovered. The gangs, angered by Booker's campaign promises to increase the number of police on the streets and to crack down hard on street gang crime, had planned to have members who were incarcerated in several state prisons simultaneously start riots there, and then have gang members on the outside assassinate Booker while authorities' attention was diverted.

Marianne Williamson was born on 8 July 1952 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Voices of Hope ~ Words of Wisdom by Marlon Brando (2025), Resurrecting Love: The Cemetery That Can Heal a Nation and XeNation?: MPO.

Julián Castro is known for The Katie Phang Show (2022), Ours Is a Future and Storm Lake (2021).

Kamala Harris was born on 20 October 1964 in Oakland, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Kamala Harris: 100 Days Out (2024), Barack and Michelle Obama Endorse Kamala Harris for President (2024) and The First Interview: Harris & Walz A CNN Exclusive (2024). She has been married to Douglas Emhoff since 22 August 2014.