In order to become president, you have to be a candidate. Candidates are people trying to go for president. They go to all 50 states so they can be voted for. They have to do a lot of things like, they have to be fast or the people will get board, they have to very brave because they are standing in front of a million people. If someone want to be president they have to have a lot of money, has to be a specific age, and you have to be born in the state.
In order to become president, a candidate has to get a lot of votes from people from all 50 states. To vote you have to be 18 years old. 19 percent of the 23 million people that will vote are young people. The people’s vote doesn’t directly elect the president,
but it goes to the Electoral College. The Electoral College is made up of 568 electors and they decide who will be the next president. The better speeches they have the more votes they get. ( 11 Facts About Voting)
Candidates do something called campaigning. Campaigning is when the candidates go to all 50 states. They have to do speeches, put up posters. When the presidential candidates campaign they tell people their ideas through TV, radios. But some candidates don’t do campaigning and they stay in their own state or city, but they will have less of a chance to win and become president. If the presidential candidate does campaign they will most likely win the most votes. ( Presidential Election Process)
Political Parties is a group of people, which contest and hold power in the government. They are a group of people with the same ideas about who should run the country. They work together and try to make new laws and get rid of the old ones. The Parties recruit the candidate that is most likely to win. These parties are important to candidate because they try to encourage people to vote for the candidate they are voting for.
Candidates have to do a lot of things but it is worth it because if you become a president because can have a lot of power. They have the power over the military so he or she makes the decision for them to go to war or not. They also have the powers to start a court, and they have the power to create laws but they have to get permission from the congress. So if you want to become president you have to do a lot of things like make speeches, and care for the people.