Who’s running for president? See a rundown of the 2024 candidates

What to know:

• What is a delegate, and how does a candidate “win” them? What to know as the presidential nominating process gets underway.
• A look at the candidates still competing for the Republican and Democratic nominations, as well as the third-party contenders.
• Over 50 countries go to the polls in 2024. The year will test even the most robust democracies.

Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his campaign for president on Monday, cutting the field of Republican candidates to four.

Ramaswamy made his announcement after former President Donald Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses. The wealthy biotech entrepreneur and conservative author finished fourth, behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. Ramaswamy told supporters he is suspending his bid and endorsing Trump.

Here’s a look at the candidates still competing for the Republican and Democratic nominations, as well as the third-party contenders:

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FIELD

DONALD TRUMP

The former president announced his third campaign for the White House on Nov. 15, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago resort, forcing the party to again decide whether to embrace a candidate whose refusal to accept defeat in 2020 sparked the U.S. Capitol attack and still dominates his speeches.

The GOP front-runner remains hugely popular in the Republican Party, despite making history as the first president to be impeached twice and inciting the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Referring to himself as America’s “most pro-life president,” Trump’s three nominations of conservative judges to the Supreme Court paved the way for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, which had legalized abortion nationwide for nearly 50 years. Sweeping criminal justice reforms he signed into law in 2019