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Claudia De La Cruz

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Claudia De La Cruz
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Independent, South Carolina Workers Party, Peace and Freedom Party, Unaffiliated, Party for Socialism and Liberation

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November 5, 2024

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Claudia De La Cruz (Party for Socialism and Liberation, Unaffiliated) ran for election for President of the United States. De La Cruz (Party for Socialism and Liberation) lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

De La Cruz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2024

Presidency

See also: Presidential candidates, 2024

An election for president of the United States was held on November 5, 2024. De La Cruz was on the ballot in the following states.

Claudia De La Cruz (Independent) presidential ballot access by state Election results are subject to change until each state certifies its results.
StateStatus% of vote received
ArizonaWrite-in
 
0%
 
CaliforniaLost
 
0.4%
 
ColoradoWrite-in
 
0%
 
ConnecticutWrite-in
 
0%
 
DelawareWrite-in
 
0%
 
FloridaLost
 
0.1%
 
GeorgiaDisqualified
 
0%
 
HawaiiLost
 
0.3%
 
IdahoLost
 
0.1%
 
IllinoisWrite-in
 
0%
 
IndianaWrite-in
 
0%
 
IowaLost
 
0%
 
KansasWrite-in
 
0%
 
KentuckyWrite-in
 
0%
 
LouisianaLost
 
0%
 
MaineWrite-in
 
0%
 
MarylandWrite-in
 
0%
 
MassachusettsLost
 
0.3%
 
MinnesotaLost
 
0%
 
MississippiLost
 
0%
 
MissouriWrite-in
 
0%
 
New JerseyLost
 
0.1%
 
New MexicoLost
 
0.2%
 
New YorkWrite-in
 
0%
 
North DakotaWrite-in
 
0%
 
OhioWrite-in
 
0%
 
PennsylvaniaDisqualified
 
0%
 
Rhode IslandLost
 
0.2%
 
South CarolinaLost
 
0.1%
 
TennesseeLost
 
0.1%
 
TexasWrite-in
 
0%
 
UtahLost
 
0.2%
 
VermontLost
 
0.4%
 
VirginiaLost
 
0.1%
 
WashingtonLost
 
0.2%
 
West VirginiaWrite-in
 
0%
 
WisconsinLost
 
0%
 



Presidential election, 2024
 
Candidate/Running mate
%
Popular votes
Electoral votes
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Donald Trump/J.D. Vance (R)
 
49.8
 
77,303,568 312
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Kamala D. Harris/Tim Walz (D)
 
48.3
 
75,019,230 226
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Jill Stein (multiple running mates) (G)
 
0.6
 
861,164 0
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Nicole Shanahan (Independent)
 
0.5
 
756,393 0
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Chase Oliver/Mike ter Maat (L)
 
0.4
 
650,138 0
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Claudia De La Cruz/Karina Garcia (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
 
0.1
 
165,191 0
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Cornel West/Melina Abdullah (Independent)
 
0.1
 
81,084 0
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Peter Sonski/Lauren Onak (American Solidarity Party)
 
0.0
 
41,853 0
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Randall Terry/Stephen E. Broden (Constitution Party)
 
0.0
 
41,290 0
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Shiva Ayyadurai/Crystal Ellis (Independent)
 
0.0
 
28,399 0
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Richard Duncan/Mitchell Preston Bupp (Independent)
 
0.0
 
12,805 0
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Joel Skousen/Rik Combs (Constitution Party)
 
0.0
 
12,786 0
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Jay Bowman/De Bowman (Independent)
 
0.0
 
5,971 0
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Christopher Garrity/Cody Ballard (Independent)
 
0.0
 
5,294 0
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Joseph Kishore/Jerry White (Socialist Equality Party)
 
0.0
 
4,650 0
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Rachele Fruit (multiple running mates) (Socialist Workers Party)
 
0.0
 
4,118 0
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Mattie Preston/Shannel Conner (Godliness, Truth, Justice)
 
0.0
 
2,857 0
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Lucifer Everylove (no running mate) (Unaffiliated)
 
0.0
 
2,653 0
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Blake Huber/Andrea Denault (Approval Voting Party)
 
0.0
 
2,196 0
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Michael Wood/John G. Pietrowski (Prohibition Party)
 
0.0
 
1,144 0
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Vermin Supreme/Jonathan Realz (Independent)
 
0.0
 
914 0
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Laura Ebke/Trisha Butler (Liberal Party)
 
0.0
 
859 0
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William P. Stodden/Stephanie H. Cholensky (Socialist Party)
 
0.0
 
364 0
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Robert Wells Jr./Tony Jones (Independent)
 
0.0
 
359 0
  Other write-in votes
 
0.2
 
235,673 0

There were no incumbents in this race The results have been certified.

Total votes: 155,240,953

0 states have not been called.


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2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Claudia De La Cruz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by De La Cruz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Claudia De la Cruz is a mother, popular educator, community organizer and theologian. She is a contributor to the overall conception and development of political education and cultural programming. Being at the nexus of many different projects, Claudia has been a key convener of organizations and social movements, connecting various groups of people to merge struggles together in the overarching fight for justice.

Born to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, she was nourished by the Black and Caribbean working class communities of the Bronx and Washington Heights in the 1980s and 90s. At an early age, she was questioning the conditions of poverty, violence, and oppression in her neighborhood, serving as her first entry point to understanding working class consciousness. Through various campaigns to free political prisoners, stop imperialist projects, and end police terror-- to name a few-- she understood there was only one solution to our collective problems: to fight for a socialist future.

Most recently, she has served as the Co-Executive Director and co-founder of the The People’s Forum in New York City—a political education space and cultural home for working-class organizers, leaders and intellectuals from all over the world.

She is running with a steadfast conviction that we must build political organizations and a mass movement independent from the two party system of the ruling class.
  • The only solution to our collective problems as a society is to fight for a socialist future. The people both within the United States and around the world deserve a future free from the domination of Washington, Wall Street, and the principle of profit over human life.
  • There is a need to build mass political organizations and a movement independent from the two party system of the ruling class. Both the Republican and Democratic parties are capitalist parties that only represent the interests of their donors and corporate friends. There is no party in government that is truly working in the best interest the working class.
  • To deal with the disastrous effects of the climate crisis, society must urgently transform the way we produce energy, grow food and move around the world. The main obstacle standing in our way is private profit, and the system that values quarterly revenue over the survival of human civilization. We can only take action at the scale and speed necessary to save the planet if the unplanned, capitalist economic system is replaced by socialist economic planning.
Transforming the economy from a capitalist model to a socialist one will be the first step in addressing a range of issues that plague our country and world. It is through a socialist program that we will be able to begin to tackle racism, imperialism, climate change, police violence, the bloated military budget, attacks on the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people, and the pursuit of profit that prevents our government from implementing the social programs that working class people desperately need.
I hope to aid in the total transformation of the U.S. and global economy into a system that prioritizes the growth and development of humanity as a whole over private interests.
The first thing I would do in office is create a new economy for the working people-- the vast majority of the country. The 100 largest corporations in America would be seized from their billionaire owners and turned into public property so that they could be owned by the working class that created their vast wealth to begin with. This could serve as the foundation for a total reorganization of the economy in a way that guarantees that everyone in society will have their basic needs met, including quality healthcare, education through college, free childcare, affordable rent, and a living wage with automatic union representation. The money to fund all of these possibilities and more exists in our country, but it is being held hostage by billionaires and corporate con men intent on preserving their personal wealth.
Neither major candidate will recognize what is currently going on in Gaza as a genocide by Israel's forces. Not only that, but all candidates retain unconditional support for continuing to aid and arm Israel while it continues this genocide. Our tax dollars should be used to meet people's needs -- not pay for the bullets, bombs and missiles used in the massacre in Gaza. Likewise, all U.S. diplomatic support to help Israel conceal its crimes, like use of the U.S. veto power in the United Nations, must stop. We stand for the repeal of all anti-BDS laws and demand an end to the repression and intimidation of pro-Palestine protesters.
The world is headed towards a catastrophic, unprecedented conflict because of the unmitigated aggressiveness and recklessness of the politicians and Pentagon generals. The new Cold War against China and Russia must end, along with associated aggression like the proxy war in Ukraine, massive military shipments to Taiwan, or any and all military build up against any targeted nation. The vast network of military bases the Pentagon maintains in other countries should be immediately closed. We demand the abolition of the NATO military alliance and AFRICOM. Cruel economic sanctions imposed on countries around the world – including Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, North Korea and Iran – must be lifted. All U.S. aid to apartheid Israel must immediately end. The CIA should be abolished, and its secrets exposed so the world knows the true extent of this agency’s crimes.

The approximately $1 trillion that the U.S. taxpayers spend every year on war should instead be spent to address the dire crises facing working people. The price of key goods, especially gas, could be dramatically lowered if the suffocating economic sanctions the U.S. government imposes on countries around the world were lifted. Humanity needs a world order based on cooperation and peace, not domination and war.
Bribery in America is a legal, recognized industry called corporate lobbying. This practice must be outlawed, and all politicians should be subject to a ban on serving on any corporate board or holding an executive position of any type at a private company after leaving office. All Wall Street bailouts would end immediately. Similarly, millionaires and billionaires should no longer be allowed to buy elections through lavish donations. All campaigning should be publicly financed, and the different loopholes like Super PACs that billionaires use to get around donation limits should be immediately closed.

Under a democracy by the workers, war criminals and Wall Street con men would be locked up – finally brought to justice for their monstrous crimes against the people. Corruption is a bipartisan issue for the U.S. ruling class. People like Hunter Biden and Jared Kushner alike abuse their positions of power to secure lucrative sources of income and flout the law. Some members of the ultra-rich grow even wealthier by facilitating the crimes of others, like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, whose bank counted Jeffrey Epstein among its clients. The wrong people are in jail. Instead of incarcerating millions of poor people caught in desperate situations, the ones who should be held to account are the corrupt capitalists.

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