Donald Trump is running for president for the third time. Here's the lowdown on his personal life, career, and politics.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : In 1996, Trump teamed up with NBC to buy the Miss Universe Organization, which encompasses the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA beauty pageants.
72% : Despite doing poorly in the early Iowa caucus, Trump triumphed in a series of primary wins and had a strong performance on Super Tuesday.
63% : Trump graduated from Wharton with a bachelor's degree in economics and talks about his time at the prestigious institution often.
57% : Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Trump expanded his dad's business and invested in Manhattan hotels.
57% : Trump announced his third presidential bid just after the 2022 midterms, and almost two years before election day in 2024.
57% : Trump complained when Biden dropped out of the presidential race at the end of July and Vice President Kamala Harris soared to the top of the ticket.
56% : Trump profited from his name throughout his long business career, selling everything from branded cologne and steaks to an online education company.
55% : A somewhat ubiquitous presence in American life since the 1980s, Trump floated running for president since his early days as a businessman.
55% : Trump has appealed the cases.
54% : By his final years in office, Trump was both president and candidate -- he launched his reelection bid in June of 2019.
54% : Trump declared victory one day after the election, before all the votes were tallied, and thus inaugurated his months-long campaign contesting the election results.
53% : That same decade, Trump started investing in casinos and bought Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
53% : Trump then starred in a reality television show of his own -- The Apprentice.
51% : On the campaign trail, Trump has vowed to make sure America leads the world in oil and gas production.
49% : Whether Trump regains control of the White House, the Republican party and country will continue to grapple with the MAGA movement's enduring cultural and political force.
48% : After leaving office in January of 2021, Trump and Melania moved to Mar-a-Lago, where he currently lives.
48% : Despite the many twists in the election cycle and the two candidates' wildly different politics, Harris and Trump remain virtually tied in the polls.
47% : When Trump moved into the White House, Melania and Barron waited months before joining him at the residence.
45% : On July 13, Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, nicking his ear using an AR-style rifle.
45% : And on the question of China, Trump continues to take a tough tone -- he's threatened to levy a 60% tariff on Chinese goods.
43% : After graduating college, Trump began working for his father and eventually became the president of a collection of family-owned companies that he later turned into the Trump Organization.
43% : In 1983, Trump opened Trump Tower on 56th Street and 5th Avenue, where he later had an apartment.
41% : With respect to the war in Ukraine, Trump has repeatedly said he could quickly end the Ukraine war, though hasn't specified how.
40% : Compared to other former presidents, Trump has released relatively little information on his physical health.
40% : After becoming the Republican nominee, Trump trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls but ended up victorious on November 8, 2016.
40% : Once in the White House, Trump was quick to issue a slate of executive orders based on his campaign promises, including building a wall on the southern border and implementing his proposed "Muslim ban," which quickly faced legal challenges.
40% : As lawmakers convened to certify the election results, Trump encouraged his supporters to attend a rally in DC to protest the joint session of Congress.
39% : Trump came down with COVID-19 himself during the final weeks of the campaign and received treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center, benefitting from drugs few Americans could access.
37% : Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump positioned himself as a political outsider and built his platform around economic prosperity, immigration, and a newly combative rhetoric.
35% : Trump took an isolationist approach to foreign policy, imposing tariffs and withdrawing from revising longstanding trade agreements.
34% : On the question of the economy, Trump pushed a $1.5 trillion tax cut package through Congress.
34% : With the guilty verdict, Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a crime.
34% : In terms of the economy, a top issue for many voters, Trump has promised to extend his hallmark 2017 tax cuts and eliminate taxes on tips.
34% : Trump has criticized Israel's actions in Gaza at times, but portrays himself as a strong defender of the Israeli state and hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago.
32% : While running for office, Trump promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but doing so proved difficult and contentious and he instead chipped away at the law.
31% : Trump used money from two of his PACs to pay his mountain of legal fees.
30% : In August, Trump said that the federal government should pay for costly IVF treatments.
29% : When speaking to the crowd, Trump did not explicitly call for violence, but encouraged his followers to "fight like hell" -- many of those same followers stormed the Capitol building moments later, overwhelming police and forcing lawmakers to flee.
28% : The case has been mired in scandals involving Willis' personal life, and is currently held up as Trump attempts to disqualify Willis as the lead prosecutor.Smith also led the charge on a federal case accusing Trump of storing sensitive national security documents at Mar-a-Lago after removing them from the White House, and impeding the government from retrieving the documents.
28% : Law enforcement officials said that Routh got close to Trump but didn't have a clear line of sight of the former president.
27% : The saga, which has extended over two suits, relates to Carroll's allegation that Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store and subsequently made defamatory statements.
27% : Should Trump win the election, he will likely throw out the federal criminal cases against him.
27% : Trump has said that states should decide the laws around abortion and hasn't publicly supported a federal ban.
26% : More than nine years after his initial campaign announcement, Trump is in the home stretch of his third bid for the White House and in a virtual dead-heat with Kamala Harris.
25% : Meanwhile, Trump continues to deny that he lost the election in 2020, refusing to admit defeat to this day.
24% : They had three children together: Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric.Rumors about Trump having affairs swirled throughout the marriage, including with American actress Marla Maples.
24% : While in office, Trump was impeached twice by the House of Representatives, but the Senate acquitted him both times.
24% : Since leaving office, an avalanche of lawsuits against Trump have piled up, many of which are currently stalled.
24% : The election cycle has been defined by political violence: There have been two alleged assassination attempts against Trump thus far, one in Pennsylvania and the other in Florida.
22% : When election day did finally roll around, Trump eventually lost both the popular and electoral college vote.
22% : Polls show Trump and Harris remain closely tied in the race for the White House.
21% : Ivana and Trump got divorced in 1992.
19% : In addition to the criminal trials, a jury found Trump guilty of sexual abuse in a civil case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
19% : Immigration has emerged as a key campaign issue and Trump has promised mass deportations.
18% : In the federal election interference case, special prosecutor Jack Smith is accusing Trump of engaging in a broad effort to undermine Biden's 2020 win.
18% : District Attorney Fani Willis charged Trump and allies in August of 2023, but the case has shrunk in scope and a judge dismissed several counts against Trump.
13% : In 2012, Trump gained prominence in Republican circles for popularizing the "birther" theory -- the racist and false claim that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
12% : On May 30, 2024, Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who alleges she had an affair with Trump.
12% : Smith argues that Trump amplified false claims about voter fraud, pressured elected officials, and organized fake electors.
9% : The competition has turned nasty at times, with Trump questioning Harris' race and contending with a pattern of misogynistic comments toward female opponents.

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