Trump vs. Harris: How their resumes compare in the race to become the next president

Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s resumes couldn’t be more different. Trump has a total of four years of experience in public office to Harris’s 34.

Unlike Harris, however, Trump has 52 years of business experience under his belt.

Taking on the renovation of the Commodore Hotel and the facade of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City as one of his first construction projects in 1976, Trump launched the Trump Organization and starred in the reality TV show The Apprentice.

He joined the political scene as a neophyte but caught the imagination of the Republican Party base and rode that wave all the way to the White House in the 2016 election.

After four years as president, Trump lost re-election in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, Harris has spent her entire career in the public sector, starting out at the district attorney’s office in Alameda County, California in 1990. She joined the San Franciso district attorney’s office eight years later.

In 2003, in a runoff election, she was elected San Francisco district attorney, a post she held until winning an election to become the attorney general of California in 2010. She was re-elected in 2014 before winning a senate seat in 2016.

After a failed presidential campaign in 2019, she was selected in 2020 to be President Joe Biden’s running mate, becoming vice president in January 2021.

Here’s a rundown of each of their careers so far:

Harris’s career to date has been one of firsts – the first Black woman to be elected district attorney in California history, the first woman to be elected as the state’s attorney general, the first Indian American to serve in the US Senate, and the first Black woman and first Asian American to appear on a major party ticket and