Who is running for president in 2024? Tracking candidates.

Trump got an early start, announcing his third White House bid in mid-November from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and declaring, “This comeback starts right now.” That launch didn’t clear the GOP field, and prominent Republicans appeared newly willing to criticize Trump after the midterms, with some openly blaming the former president for elevating flawed candidates.

Larry Elder, a conservative talk radio host who unsuccessfully sought to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in California’s 2021 recall election, has announced that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. During his bid for governor, Elder opposed the minimum wage, called for letting employers ask female applicants whether they plan to get pregnant, rejected the coronavirus vaccine mandate for state workers and endorsed Trump’s false assertion that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. On his website for his presidential bid, Elder emphasizes fighting crime, expanding school choice, fostering racial harmony, addressing inflation, improving the economy and securing the border, among other priorities.

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who later served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, was the first prominent Republican to challenge Trump. If she wins the GOP nomination, Haley would be the first woman and the first Asian American GOP presidential nominee. She has called for “a new generation of leadership” and highlighted her gender and her family’s immigrant roots while rejecting “identity politics.”

Asa Hutchinson, who spent eight years as governor of Arkansas, announced his intention to run for president in early April and plans to make it formal on Wednesday with an event in Bentonville, Ark. Hutchinson, urged Republicans to look past Trump well before the midterms intensified some GOP doubts about the former president. In January, Hutchinson said the ex-president’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol “disqualifies” him from another term. Hutchinson, a former U.S. attorney who also served in President George W. Bush’s administration, is one of many lesser-known 2024 hopefuls traveling extensively to early-nominating states and hoping to break through.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a wealthy entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam,” became the third declared Republican contender for president. The long-shot candidate is centering his campaign on opposition to all things “woke,” tapping into a common theme for conservatives who have criticized diversity programs and certain concepts of race and gender. Among Ramaswamy’s proposals: ending affirmative action and “decoupling” from China.

Biden announced Tuesday that he will seek reelection, saying in a video he wants to “finish the job” he started when the country was racked by a deadly pandemic, a reeling economy and a teetering democracy. He previewed his potential reelection pitch in his State of the Union address in February, touting legislation on infrastructure and prescription drug prices that he passed with a Democratic-controlled Congress.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a controversial member of the storied Kennedy family who is known for his anti-vaccine views, has filed to run for president, according to a statement of candidacy submitted to the Federal Election Commission. Kennedy, 69, parlayed his famous last name into years of advocacy as an environmental lawyer and best-selling author. He has become more known in recent years as one of the leading anti-vaccine advocates in the country, peddling false claims linking vaccines to autism. He gained even more notoriety during the pandemic as one of the nation’s most prolific spreaders of disinformation about coronavirus vaccines.

Activist and self-help author Marianne Williamson is waging a long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination. Williamson is positioning herself to Biden’s left, advocating tuition-free higher education at public institutions, among other initiatives. She also ran for president in 2020, calling for “a moral and spiritual awakening” in the United States, and dropped out shortly before the first nominating contests. “We are not living in easy times, but the times will change when we are willing to change them,” she wrote in a Facebook post announcing her plans.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has indicated privately that he intends to run for president in 2024, though he continues to dodge questions about it publicly. Allies expect him to announce a bid sometime after the Florida state legislature wraps up in May, and a pro-DeSantis super PAC is already raising his profile with ad purchases in early-nominating states.

Former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney has waged a long, lonely battle to steer her party away from Trump, persistently criticizing the former president and warning of the damage she says he is doing not just to the GOP but also to democracy. For such efforts, Cheney was ousted in 2021 from her position as House conference chair and replaced with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), a staunch Trump defender. Cheney would go on to serve as one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Chris Christie, who was governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018, ran for president in 2016 and has said he is considering a run in 2024. Ramping up his travel with visits to New Hampshire and speaking to donors around the country, Christie has cast himself as uniquely equipped to attack Trump as other Republicans shy away from direct criticism.

Kristi L. Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, won reelection to her second term in November and has gained attention within conservative circles for shrugging off restrictions and mandates in her state during the pandemic. She has claimed the state got through the pandemic “better than virtually every other state,” though South Dakota in 2020 had among the highest coronavirus infections and death tolls per capita.

Mike Pence has not yet announced a run, but the former vice president has been traveling to key primary states and leaning into issues that other Republicans find politically uncomfortable, calling for changes to Medicare and Social Security and advocating abortion restrictions while highlighting the Trump administration’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade. “We have to resist the politics of personality, the lure of populism unmoored by timeless conservative values,” he told a crowd in New Hampshire recently.

Tim Scott, the only Black U.S. senator in the GOP, launched a presidential exploratory committee in April after a “listening tour” that took him through the early-nominating states of New Hampshire and Iowa as well as his home state, South Carolina. Scott has highlighted his family’s “cotton to Congress” story while also declaring that “America is not defined by our original sin,” pitching himself as an unusually compelling messenger against the political left while also striking a more hopeful, positive tone.

The Republican governor of New Hampshire — a key early primary state — won his fourth term by a 15-point margin in November, and he has signaled interest in a presidential run while drawing contrasts with other contenders such as DeSantis. “I’m No. 1 in personal freedoms. Sorry, Ron, you’re No. 2,” Chris Sununu told Fox News recently, referring to the Florida governor while advocating limited government and criticizing DeSantis’s moves to punish companies he views as “woke.”

Glenn Youngkin quickly drew presidential buzz after winning the Virginia governor’s race in 2021 and stumping for other Republicans in purple states during the 2022 midterms. He has repeatedly said he is “humbled” by speculation he could run for president and has not publicly ruled it out. But he has also said recently that he is focused on Virginia’s upcoming elections, and he did little to signal presidential ambitions in a recent gathering with donors. Jeff Roe, a top political adviser to Youngkin, recently joined a super PAC supporting DeSantis for 2024, raising further doubts about Youngkin’s interest in a national campaign.