Donald Trump, as president, had the worst record on animal issues since the cockfighter Andrew Jackson WASHINGTON D.C.––Though drawing sharp distinctions between themselves during the closing days of the keenly contested 2024 U.S. Presidential election, candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have said little––because pollsters and pundits have not asked––about perhaps the starkest difference of all in their respective political histories. Yet it can be succinctly summarized, and matters a great deal to the third or more of American households who donate or volunteer in some manner to help animals: