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2024 United States presidential election
60th quadrennial American presidential election / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.[1] Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose a slate of electors to the U.S. Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
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Incumbent president Joe Biden, a member of the Democratic Party, initially ran for re-election and became the party's presumptive nominee on March 12.[2][3] However, Biden's performance in the June 2024 presidential debate reignited concerns about his age and lead to a widespread calls for him to leave the race.[4] He withdrew on July 21 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who launched her presidential campaign the same day.[5] Harris secured enough delegate endorsements to become the presumptive nominee the next day,[6] and became the party's official nominee on August 5.[7] Harris chose Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate the next day.[8] Biden's withdrawal makes him the first eligible incumbent president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 not to run for re-election, and the first ever to withdraw after securing enough delegates to win the nomination.[9] Harris is the first nominee who did not participate in the primaries as a presidential candidate since Hubert Humphrey, also in 1968.[10]
Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, a member of the Republican Party, is running for re-election for a second, non-consecutive term, after losing to Biden in the 2020 presidential election.[11] He became the party's presumptive nominee on March 12.[3] In the run-up to the election, Trump was criminally convicted of 34 felonies related to falsifying business records, becoming the first president to be found guilty of a crime.[12] He was also found liable in civil proceedings for both sexual abuse and defamation in 2023 and defamation in 2024. On July 13, he was shot in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Trump was nominated during the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 15 along with his running mate, Ohio senator JD Vance. He has continued spreading false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him, and has claimed without evidence that the 2024 election would be rigged against him as well.[13] The claims have been part of a larger election denial movement among American conservatives.[14] Trump's campaign has also been criticized by legal experts, historians, and political scientists for violent and dehumanizing rhetoric against those he sees as political enemies, as well as increasingly authoritarian statements.[13][15][16][17]
The presidential election will take place at the same time as elections for the U.S. Senate, House, gubernatorial, and state legislatures. Key swing states include Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.[18] Leading campaign issues are expected to be abortion,[19][20][21] border security and immigration,[22][23] climate change,[24][25] democracy,[26][27] the economy,[28] education,[29] foreign policy,[30] healthcare,[31] and LGBT rights.[32] The winners of this election are scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2025, as the 47th president and 50th vice president of the United States, respectively.