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Different lives - Throughout an election campaign, US voters are bombarded the two candidates - speaking from podiums, greeting rally crowds and stepping down aircraft stairs. Here's a different visual perspective of who they are and where they've come from. Long before they even knew what the White House was... Kamala Harris and Trump, both aged 3. Decades apart, Democratic presidential nominee Harris spent her early years in Oakland, California, & Republican nominee Trump was raised in New York borough of Queens. Trump's father Fred Trump was the son of German immigrants and his mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was born in Scotland. They enrolled him in the New York Military Academy at age 13.Donald Trump with his parents Fred and Mary at the New York Military. Trump has said his five years at the academy, which began in 1959, gave him military training and helped shape his leadership skills. He later sat out the Vietnam War due to deferments - four for academic reasons and one due to bone spurs. Donald Trump aged 18 at the New York Military AcademyAlamy. After earning a degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Trump became favoured to succeed his father at the helm of the family business.
Harris spent five years at high school in Montreal, Canada, where her mother took up a teaching job at McGill University. With her sister young Maya was brought up by their Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a cancer researcher & social activist. Kamala younger sister Maya & mother Shyamala. She later enrolled in historically black college, Howard University in Washington DC. Kamala Harris aged 22 at Howard University in Washington DC. From an early age, she was taught by her mother, importance of civil rights movement & she attended annual Martin Luther King Jr Freedom March in Washington in 2004.
Harris returned to California, her rose swiftly to top of state's criminal justice system - a job rising to attorney general office - using momentum to mount a successful run for US Senate in 2016. At the same time as she entered Congress, Trump, he step into White House first time, but having stunned world to defeat Hillary Clinton. But 3-years later Harris ran a lacklustre presidential campaign was picked by the victor of Democratic race, Biden, to be his running mate proved to be winning defeating Trump and Mike Pence
As Trump made Supreme Court conservative, paving way for abortion ruling, his time in Oval Office also took US out of the Paris climate accord & took steps to shows, and he first visit overseas as president was to Saudi Arabia in 2017. Trump advocates isolationist policies that involve disentangling his country from foreign conflicts & promoting American industry.
The end of his presidency start after Biden-Harris term were marked by Covid lockdowns, mask mandates and social unrest following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Donald Trump wearing a mask while visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland,
Harris found her voice in 2022 as US Supreme Court ended constitutional right to abortion. Foreign policy issues also dominated her time in office include wars in Ukraine & Gaza, also chaotic US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. President Biden was happy for her to become White House champion for pro-choice movement. She debut international visit as vice-president to Guatemala in 2021, her responsibility was given to reduce the numbers of Latin American migrants reaching America's southern border with Mexico. She take oath to become Vice-President 2021, with President,
she standing by President Joe Biden signs an executive order in Oval Office of the White House in 2023