Voters Guide 2024: Where Harris and Trump stand on key issues
What each candidate thinks about key voting issues like abortion, climate change, health care and guns.
The 2024 election is almost here. Americans are gearing up to make a historic pick on Nov. 5, selecting the 47th president of the United States. In many ways, their options 鈥 Kamala Harris and Donald Trump 鈥 couldn鈥檛 be more different, but the nominees do share some similarities.听
Although their visions for solving Americans鈥 largest problems differ, both have pledged to address inflation, lower taxes and support Israel in its war against Hamas. They have also both committed to ending federal taxes on tips.听
Still, Harris and Trump have seriously different pitches for the nation. They diverge most on climate change, reproductive rights and gun control.听
Before you cast your ballot, 91影视鈥檚 voter guide can help you lay out where each candidate stands. Here鈥檚 what Trump and Harris have said about major issues, in their own words:聽
Abortion | Health care | Climate | Gun violence | The economy | The border | Policing | Israel/Gaza | Ukraine | Taxes
Where the candidates stand on the issue of abortion:
Harris: 鈥淗ow dare these elected leaders believe they are in a better position to tell women what they need," Harris said at a Minnesota Planned Parenthood on March 14, 2024. "We have to be a nation that trusts women.鈥澛
Trump: 鈥淎fter 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the 鈥榮hock鈥 of everyone,鈥 Trump said in a .听
Where the candidates stand on health care:
Trump: 鈥淲e鈥檙e going to make the ACA much better than it is right now and much less expensive for you,鈥 Trump said regarding the Affordable Care Act without giving specifics in an
Harris: 鈥淭here are many factors that drive up health care costs and make medications more expensive,鈥 Harris , at the White House. 鈥淎nd we will hold accountable those who try to put profits ahead of the health and wellbeing of the American people.鈥澛
Where the candidates stand on the issue of the climate:
Harris: 鈥淓very day, all across our nation, we feel and see the impact of the climate crisis,鈥 Harris in Baltimore, Maryland. 鈥淢ost people can no longer deny it because it is so obvious.鈥澛
Trump: 鈥淵ou sort of can鈥檛 get away from [fossil fuels] at this moment. I mean, someday you might be able to. But I do hear we have anywhere from 100 to 500 years left," Trump said in an with Tesla founder Elon Musk.听
Where the candidates stand on the issue of gun control:
Trump: "Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated my very first week back in office, perhaps my first day," he at a National Rifle Association event.听
Harris: 鈥淪olutions do exist. It鈥檚 a false choice to suggest you either have to choose between supporting the Second Amendment or passing reasonable gun safety laws,鈥 Harris , at the White House.听
Where the candidates stand on the economy:
Harris: "I will take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging.听I will take on corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families,鈥 Harris said at an .听聽
Trump: 鈥淒rill baby drill,鈥 Trump said in an . 鈥淲e have to bring prices down. If we bring energy down, other things are going to follow.鈥澛
Where the candidates stand on control of the border:
Trump: 鈥淚鈥檒l shift massive portions of the existing federal law enforcement apparatus to immigration enforcements,鈥 Trump said on June 24, 2023, event. 鈥淲e must use any and all resources necessary to stop this incredible, incredible invasion.鈥澛
Harris: 鈥淚 was attorney general of a border state. I went after the transnational gangs, the drug cartels and the human traffickers,鈥 Harris said at an . 鈥淚 prosecuted them in case after case and I won, so I know what I鈥檓 talking about.鈥澛
Where the candidates stand on policing in America:
Harris: 鈥淭rust between law enforcement and the communities they serve is essential for public safety. Police misconduct undermines that trust鈥攁nd threatens the right to equal justice under law,鈥 Harris said in聽.听
Trump: 鈥淚鈥檓 also going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States from being destroyed by the radical left for taking strong action on crime,鈥 Trump said Tuesday at a in Waterloo, Iowa.
Where the candidates stand on Israel and Gaza conflict:
Trump: 鈥淚ran was broke and they had no money for Hamas, and they had no money for Hezbollah,鈥 Trump said of his four years in office on Feb. 24, 2024, at the . 鈥淚f I were president, Israel would have never been attacked.鈥澛
Harris: 鈥淣ow is the time to get a ceasefire deal and get the hostages deal done,鈥 Harris said at an .听
Where the candidates stand on the war in Ukraine:
Harris: 鈥淩ussia鈥檚 aggression is not only an attack on the lives and the freedom of the people of Ukraine... [it] is also an attack on international rules and norms and the principles embodied in the U.N. Charter,鈥 Harris , at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine.听
Trump: 鈥淚鈥檒l meet with Putin, I鈥檒l meet with Zelenskyy. They both have weaknesses and they both have strengths. And within 24 hours that war will be settled,鈥 Trump said during a .听
Where the candidates stand on taxes:
I brought taxes way down. Way, way, way down,鈥 Trump said during his Republican National Convention speech July 18, 2024. 鈥淲e'll do it again, but we鈥檒l do it even better.鈥澛
鈥淲e will pass a middle-class tax cut that will benefit more than 100 million Americans,鈥 Harris said during her Democratic National Convention speech Aug. 22, 2024.听