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Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s resumes couldn’t be extra completely different. Trump has a complete of 4 years of expertise in public workplace to Harris’s 34.

Unlike Harris, nonetheless, Trump has 52 years of enterprise expertise underneath his belt.

Taking on the renovation of the Commodore Hotel and the facade of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City as certainly one of his first building initiatives in 1976, Trump launched the Trump Organization and starred within the actuality TV present The Apprentice.

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

After 4 years as president, Trump misplaced re-election in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, Harris has spent her complete profession within the public sector, beginning out on the district legal professional’s workplace in Alameda County, California in 1990. She joined the San Franciso district legal professional’s workplace eight years later.

In 2003, in a runoff election, she was elected San Francisco district legal professional, a put up she held till successful an election to turn out to be the legal professional normal of California in 2010. She was re-elected in 2014 earlier than successful a senate seat in 2016.

After a failed presidential marketing campaign in 2019, she was chosen in 2020 to be President Joe Biden’s operating mate, changing into vice chairman in January 2021.

Here’s a rundown of every of their careers to date:

Kamala Harris

Harris’s profession to this point has been certainly one of firsts – the primary Black girl to be elected district legal professional in California historical past, the primary girl to be elected because the state’s legal professional normal, the primary Indian American to serve within the US Senate, and the primary Black girl and first Asian American to look on a serious social gathering ticket and to function vice chairman.

After passing the bar in 1990, Harris went on to affix the Alameda County prosecutor’s workplace in Oakland. There, as an assistant district legal professional, she focused on intercourse crimes.

Four years later, she was appointed to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission by the state meeting speaker Willie Brown, whom she was courting on the time. The relationship ended the next 12 months after Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco.

Harris joined the San Francisco District Attorney’s workplace after being recruited by an previous colleague from the Alameda workplace. In San Francisco, she centered on combatting teenage prostitution and altering the view of legislation enforcement to see intercourse employees as victims quite than criminals.

It was throughout this time that she made connections with influential pals among the many metropolis’s rich who would later present her with monetary help when she ran for district legal professional in 2003.

She ran towards her former boss and incumbent Terence Hallinan. One of her strategists informed Politico that her message was “We’re progressive, like Terence Hallinan, but we’re competent like Terence Hallinan is not.” She received the runoff election with 56.5 per cent of the vote. The conviction fee within the metropolis went from 52 to 67 per cent in her first three years.

During her time as district legal professional, she was scrutinized when a few thousand drug instances needed to be thrown out after a technician stole cocaine from the DA’s lab and mishandled proof and Harris didn’t inform the protection attorneys.

In 2010, she ran for California legal professional normal as an underdog towards Republican Los Angeles DA Steve Cooley in a race so shut that it took three weeks to declare Harris the winner.

She was accused of being inconsistent on the difficulty of the loss of life penalty after not looking for capital punishment towards the person who killed Isaac Espinoza, a San Francisco police officer, throughout her time as district legal professional, however then subsequently declining to again two poll initiatives banning the loss of life penalty as state legal professional normal.

In 2016, Harris ran for Senate to exchange longtime senator Barbara Boxer, beating fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez.

In the Senate, she rapidly turned a viral hit for her prosecutorial questioning of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She advocated for gun management, hashish legalization, and healthcare and tax reform.

She was picked as Biden’s 2020 operating mate even after she ran towards him in 2019 as a Democratic candidate and blasted him on the difficulty of bussing on the controversy stage. Her her personal marketing campaign spiraled and ended earlier than any votes had been solid.

As vice chairman, Harris ceaselessly returned to the chamber that she had simply left as she presided over a 50-50 senate, breaking tie votes on laws such because the stimulus package deal referred to as the American Rescue Plan in 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act.

She took on points akin to voting rights and the foundation causes of immigration from Central America, which Republicans have used to falsely model her because the “border czar” in control of the southern border.

Following Biden’s withdrawal from the race and his endorsement of her, Harris launched her personal presidential marketing campaign and the Democratic Party rapidly coalesced round her. As of July 22, Harris had sufficient non-binding help from delegates to turn out to be the presumptive nominee of the social gathering.

Donald Trump

Trump was solely three years out of faculty when his father named him because the president of his actual property enterprise in 1971. He initially joined the agency in 1968 following his commencement. The firm, Trump Management, owned racially segregated rental housing within the outer boroughs of New York, in keeping with The New York Times.

Trump quickly started utilizing the Trump Organization as an umbrella time period for his companies. He modified the corporate’s focus to constructing and renovating resorts, casinos, golf programs, and skyscrapers.

He filed for chapter for six of his companies between 1991 and 2009 – the Trump Taj Mahal in 1991, Trump Castle, Trump Plaza and Casino, and the Plaza Hotel the next 12 months, Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts in 2004, and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009, in keeping with PolitiFact.

Trump additionally had a variety of extra profitable facet companies, akin to licensing the Trump title.

Trump and his companies have been the themes of greater than 4,000 lawsuits over the course of the final three many years.

But Trump’s large break got here in 2004 when he emerged because the host of the NBC present The Apprentice.

He remained as host of the present till 2015, the 12 months he launched his first marketing campaign for the presidency after having beforehand been contemplating operating in earlier cycles.

Running a marketing campaign described as isolationist and nationalist, Trump received the 2016 election towards former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as he misplaced the favored vote by nearly three million ballots however received the electoral faculty.

He rapidly took to what was then Twitter, now X, to make bulletins and conflict with different world leaders.

Trump created chaos by withdrawing from agreements on local weather and commerce, he banned vacationers to the US from seven Muslim-majority nations and put in place harsh immigration restrictions. He additionally initiated a commerce struggle with China, minimize taxes for the rich, and made main modifications to US Middle East coverage.

Shortly after his inauguration, in May 2017, a particular counsel investigation was initiated into allegations of collusion between the Trump marketing campaign and Russia. As many as 34 individuals confronted prison prices within the probe for monetary crimes and laptop hacking. Trump himself didn’t face any prices and the investigation, which resulted in March 2019, didn’t discover any prison collusion.

Not lengthy after that, Trump would turn out to be simply the third US president to ever be impeached following allegations that he put strain on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to search out detrimental data on Biden. Impeached by the Democratic House, he was acquitted by the Republicans in control of the Senate.

Taking on Biden in 2020, Trump’s re-election battle was taken over by the Covid-19 pandemic. His dealing with of the disaster was severely criticized, with US having a number of the world’s highest numbers of deaths and infections. Trump additionally confronted mockery and condemnation for suggesting that it’s researched if the virus might be handled by injecting disinfectant.

In October, with simply weeks left till the election, Trump was compelled to step away from the marketing campaign path after he additionally got here down with the virus.

In the 2020 election, Trump acquired 74 million votes, greater than another sitting president. But it wasn’t sufficient in comparison with Biden’s 81 million votes.

But Trump rejected the outcomes, falsely claiming widespread voter fraud, and his allies initiated greater than 60 courtroom instances difficult them – all of which had been denied.

On January 6, 2021, Trump rallied his supporters on the Ellipse outdoors the White House not removed from the Capitol. His supporters then stormed Congress in an try to cease the certification of Biden’s victory. They had been unsuccessful.

The three Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump, making a 6-3 conservative majority on the courtroom, had been instrumental within the overturning of Roe v Wade and the top of the constitutional proper to an abortion after nearly half a century.

Despite going through 4 indictments and 34 prison convictions to date, Trump simply received the Republican nomination earlier this 12 months.

Before the Republican conference, he survived an assassination try, prompting some supporters to say divine intervention.