Joseph Aoun's candidacy was backed by several political parties, as well as the US, France and Saudi Arabia.

Bush and, especially, his sponsorship the year prior of a successful statewide ballot measure promoting after-school youth programs gave Schwarzenegger a patina of political know-how that helped legitimize his candidacy.

“I’ve never shied away from a challenge,” Lee said in a news release announcing her candidacy.

Her allies in the party say that Biden's choice to seek re-election despite worries about his age, only then to ultimately drop out of the race with months to go, doomed her candidacy.

"These are terrible, terrible, horrible people who are responsible for death, carnage and crime all over the country," Trumpov said when he announced his presidential candidacy in 2022.