Throughout the election campaign, American voters are bombarded with images of the two candidates speaking from podiums, greeting rally crowds, and descending airplane steps.
Here's another visual of who they are and where they came from. Long before they knew what the White House was, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were photographed at age three.
Decades apart, Democratic presidential nominee Harris spent her early years in Oakland, California, and Republican nominee Trump grew up in New York's Queens borough.
Harris (left in the left image below) and her sister Maya (center) were raised primarily by their Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a cancer researcher and social activist.

Trump's father, Fred Trump, was the son of German immigrants, and his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, was born in Scotland. They enrolled him in the New York Military Academy at the age of 13.
Harris spent five years in high school in Montreal, Canada, where her mother began a teaching job at McGill University. She later enrolled at the historically black college, Howard University in Washington DC.

Trump has said his five years at the academy, which began in 1959, gave him military training and helped shape his leadership skills. He later left the Vietnam War.
From an early age, Harris was taught by her mother the importance of the civil rights movement, and she participated in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom March on Washington in 2004.
After earning a degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Trump was favored to succeed his father at the helm of the family business.

Harris returned to California, where she quickly rose to the top of the state's criminal justice system, landing a job as attorney general, and used that momentum to mount a successful run for the U.S. Senate in 2016.
At the same time she entered Congress, Trump was entering the White House for the first time, having stunned the world to defeat Hillary Clinton.

Three years later, Harris ran a weak presidential campaign, but was selected by the winner of the Democratic race, Joe Biden, as his running mate. They proved to be the winning ticket, defeating Trump and Mike Pence.
The end of the Trump presidency and the beginning of the Biden-Harris term were marked by Covid lockdowns, masks and social unrest following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Harris sometimes struggled to make her mark as vice president, but found her voice in 2022 when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion.

President Biden was happy to have her become a White House champion for the pro-choice movement.

It was Trump who made the Supreme Court more conservative, paving the way for the abortion ruling.
During his time in the Oval Office, he also pulled the US out of the Paris climate accord and took steps to reduce immigration.

Harris's debut international visit as vice president was to Guatemala in 2021, as part of her mandate to reduce the number of Latin American migrants reaching America's southern border with Mexico.

Foreign policy issues that have dominated her time in office include the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
Trump's first overseas visit as president was to Saudi Arabia in 2017. Trump advocates isolationist policies that include distancing his country from foreign conflicts and promoting American industry.

Harris is married to Doug Emhoff, who regularly campaigns on her behalf.
Various members of Donald Trump's family have played roles in his political career, although appearances on the 2024 campaign by his wife, former First Lady Melania Trump, have been limited.
With his first wife, Ivana, Trump had three children: Donald Jr. (second left in bottom photo), Ivanka (second right), and Eric (right). He had a daughter, Tiffany (left), with his second wife, Marla Maples. He married his third wife Melania (third left) in 2005, with whom he has a son, Barron.

Harris entered the 2024 presidential race relatively late in the process, replacing Joe Biden who withdrew.
She made history as the first black and Asian-American woman to lead a major party's presidential ticket and went on to deliver a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

In the same election, Donald Trump won the rare distinction of winning a third presidential nomination from his party.
He spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his ear bandaged after surviving an assassination attempt on the campaign trail.