US/2024 Presidential election

 US/2024 Presidential election (US Presidential Election)

Date	November 5, 2024
Subpage	•US/2024 Presidential election/Candidate
Description	60th quadrennial presidential election.

The 2024 United States presidential election is the 60th quadrennial presidential election and the first presidential election after electoral votes are redistributed according to the post-2020 census reapportionment.

Supreme Court Ballot Access

A March 2024 US Supreme Court decision overturned attempts from lower state courts to ban Donald Trump from the ballots in state elections.

Cultural shifts

Some polls for this election indicated that support for the Democratic Party among people identifying as Hispanic, Asian, Arab, and students and young people under 25 appeared to have somewhat eroded, while support for the Republican party in rural areas and pensioners also appeared to be declining.

Candidates

Democrat

President Biden on running for 2nd term: ‘Watch me’

Declared

• Joe Biden
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr
• Marianne Williamson

Potential

• Eric Adams
• Pete Buttigieg
• Roy Cooper
• Amy Klobuchar
• Chris Murphy
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• Bernie Sanders
• Nina Turner
• Raphael Warnock
• Gretchen Whitmer

Republican

Trump overtakes Biden in polling of key swing states, Kornacki breaks it down - ABC

Declared

• Chris Christie
• Ron DeSantis
• Larry Elder
• Nikki Haley
• Asa Hutchinson
• Mike Pence
• Vivek Ramaswamy
• Tim Scott
• Francis X. Suarez
• Donald Trump

Potential

• Greg Abbott
• Marsha Blackburn
• Liz Cheney
• Ted Cruz
• Tom Cotton
• Marjorie Taylor Greene
• Larry Hogan
• Will Hurd
• Brian Kemp
• Adam Kinzinger
• Mike Pompeo
• Marco Rubio
• Ben Sasse
• Chris Sununu
• Glenn Youngkin

Libertarian

• Justin Amash
• Dave Smith

Independents, other third parties, or party unknown

Third-party candidates gained one of the strongest showing in polls since Ross Perot's high poll numbers in the 1990s. Polls were especially high for Robert F. Kennedy Jr (~13% in the spring of 2024), who dropped out of the Democratic Party primaries to run as an independent.

• Howard Stern
• Kanye West
• Andrew Yang
• Mark Cuban
• Dwayne Johnson
• Stephen A. Smith
• Tulsi Gabbard

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Biden’s pier for Gaza is a hollow gesture that will change almost nothing	blog post	8 March 2024	Jonathan Cook	President Biden needs to look like Gaza’s saviour when Democrats are deciding who they are voting for. He and the Democratic party are betting voters are dumb enough to fall for this charade. Please don’t prove them right.
Document:Jill Stein considering Palestinian American as running mate	Article	11 August 2024	Maya Yang	Kamala Harris mishandled anti-war demonstrators who protested during her rally in Detroit, Michigan, chanting: “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide." Harris responded: “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”
Document:Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy	Article	4 August 2024	John Naughton	Speaking to a Christian convention in Florida the other day, Donald Trump said: “Get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it any more. Four more years, you know what: it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.”

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