Here are the Republicans running for president in 2024, before their first debate later this month

In early June, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and current North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum all formally kicked off their campaigns.

Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in May that he won’t be on the presidential campaign trail in 2023 because of elections for his state’s legislature in November, but he appears to have left the door open for a 2024 White House run.

In the latest polls of Republican primary voters, former President Donald Trump has a big lead, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a distant second.

Below is MarketWatch’s list of Republican presidential contenders and the status of their candidacies.

The first official debate of the GOP presidential primary is slated to be held in Milwaukee on Aug. 23. Seven candidates have qualified for this debate so far: Trump, DeSantis, Haley, Scott, Ramaswamy, Christie and Burgum. But Trump could decide against participating. He recently told Newsmax: “When you’re leading by 30, 40 or 50 points, what’s the purpose of really doing it?”

Pence and Hutchinson have met the requirement of securing at least 1% support in three acceptable polls, but they don’t yet have the needed number of unique donors — at least 40,000. However, Pence’s campaign has said he’s above 30,000 and should get the needed number soon.

The second debate is scheduled to take place Sept. 27 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, and the Republican Party has raised the qualification bar for that event.

Trump grabbed the spotlight in early August, as he was hit with a four-count indictment Tuesday over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, including his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He entered pleas of not guilty Thursday in a widely followed Washington, D.C., arraignment and criticized the case as “persecution.”

The 45th president also was indicted in March in a Manhattan case over hush-money payments, and was indicted in June in a Miami case over classified documents.

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On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden officially launched his re-election campaign in April, even as most Americans don’t approve of his performance. The president has been talking up the strong job market and his legislative record.

In addition to the relatively high-profile names on the list above, there are some lesser-known GOP presidential hopefuls as well, such as Aaron Day, who is known in part for his 2016 run against former Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, a fellow Republican; Perry Johnson, a former gubernatorial candidate in Michigan; Steve Laffey, a former mayor of Cranston, R.I.; and former Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton.

A number of other Republican politicians have been talked about as potential 2024 contenders but have not said they are running. That group includes Texas Gov. Greg Abbott; John Bolton, a former national-security adviser and former ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who has run an ad in New Hampshire, a key state; and former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan.

Among the prominent Republicans who have said they’re not seeking their party’s presidential nomination in 2024 are Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.

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Democrats are largely closing ranks behind Biden, although author and activist Marianne Williamson has said she’s seeking the party’s nomination again and vigorously defended her decision to challenge the president in an extensive question-and-answer session with MarketWatch. Antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is also mounting a long-shot challenge to Biden and held a kickoff event for his campaign in April. And Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has said he’s being urged to consider a White House run.

Among third-party candidacies, Cornel West, a former Ivy League professor now at Union Theological Seminary, has announced that he’s a presidential candidate for the People’s Party and that he’s seeking the Green Party’s nomination. In addition, a group called No Labels has been considering a “unity ticket” for 2024, saying that a rematch between Biden and Trump would be “the sequel that no one asked for,” but a Politico report said the group would not submit a third-party challenger if DeSantis becomes the Republican nominee.

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MarketWatch’s Robert Schroeder contributed to this article.