Meet the Nobel Peace Prize Contenders Who Could Beat Trump This Year

President Donald Trump used an Oval Office appearance on Wednesday to press his case for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee is due to announce Friday morning. He said he has accomplished far more than any other American president, pointed to keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and warned that a snub would discredit the committee. He also noted that he had received the honor indirectly, after last year's laureate, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, handed him her medal in January. The committee responded that the prize stays tied to whoever it names, according to Time.

Nominations are confidential and no shortlist is published, though the Norwegian Nobel Institute has logged 287 candidates, 208 of them individuals and 79 organizations. Leaders of Israel, Cambodia and Pakistan have said they put Trump forward. With his war with Iran in its eighth month, polls rate his chances as slim.

Among the names circulating are Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms, a volunteer network of roughly 700 local groups that Polymarket puts at 17%; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, at 1%; and Pope Leo XIV, whose repeated appeals for peace have drawn criticism from Trump.

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