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. Prominent Republicans appeared newly willing to criticize Trump after the midterms, with some openly blaming the former president for elevating flawed candidates. But Trump has solidified his status at the head of the pack in recent months, growing his lead in the polls.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum announced a long-shot presidential run in June. The wealthy tech entrepreneur turned governor was first elected to his job in 2016, when he won a three-way race with nearly 77 percent of the vote.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie entered the presidential race in early June, positioning himself as a bare-knuckled brawler best-equipped to make the case against Trump, his onetime ally. He served as governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 and also ran for president in 2016.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis filed paperwork for a presidential run in late-May, moving ahead with a long-expected campaign that many Republicans viewed as the most formidable primary challenge to Trump. DeSantis had became a GOP star as a first-term governor who derided pandemic-driven shutdowns and vaccine mandates and cast himself as an enemy of what he calls “woke ideology” in the news media, major companies such as Disney and schools, where he has worked to restrict discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Larry Elder, a conservative talk radio host who unsuccessfully sought to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in California’s 2021 recall election, announced in April that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. During his bid for governor, Elder opposed the minimum wage, called to let 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.

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 for the presidency. 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, kicked off his presidential bid in April. He 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.

Mike Pence, who served as vice president under Trump, launched his presidential bid in June while suggesting his former running mate is unfit for office. Pence said that anyone who “puts themselves over the Constitution” or asks others to do so “should never be president of the United States again,” sharpening his criticisms of Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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 in February. 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 raising the voting age to 25.

Tim Scott, the only Black U.S. senator in the GOP, joined the presidential race officially in May and his team announced a $6 million advertising buy they say will run through the first GOP debate. The South Carolinian 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.

Francis X. Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, jumped into the presidential race in mid-June, becoming the only Hispanic candidate in the field and the third candidate from Florida. Suarez, 45, is pitching himself as a centrist who represents “generational change” and can broaden the GOP’s appeal. He said on “Good Morning America” that he’s running because he has a “different message” from the rest of the field and believes voters are eager for “someone who can unify them.”

Former Texas congressman Will Hurd launched his campaign in late June while declaring that if Republicans nominate “a lawless, selfish, failed politician like Donald Trump... we all know Joe Biden will win again.” The ex-CIA officer was known in Congress for his willingness to work with Democrats and is now making a longshot pitch for his more moderate brand of what he calls “common-sense leadership."

Biden is seeking reelection, saying he wants to “finish the job” he started when the country was besieged by a deadly pandemic, a reeling economy and a teetering democracy. Polling shows that many Democrats would prefer a nominee other than Biden in 2024, and at 80 he is the oldest president in U.S. history to seek a second term. But major Democratic leaders have not taken steps to challenge him, and his party’s better-than-expected performance in the 2022 midterms helped quiet critics.

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. Kennedy, 69, parlayed his famous last name into years of advocacy as an environmental lawyer and best-selling author. In recent years, however, he has become better-known as one of the country’s most prominent opponents of vaccines and peddled false claims linking them to autism. He gained even more notoriety during the pandemic while spreading 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 need to offer fundamental economic reform. Nothing short of that will beat the Republicans in 2024,” she told The Post in an interview.

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.

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.

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. 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. But Youngkin recently fed 2024 presidential buzz with a video ad linking him to Ronald Reagan.