US/2024 Presidential election
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| Date | November 5, 2024 |
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| 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.[1]
Contents
Supreme Court Ballot Access
| Biden in 2021 vs. 2024: How Signs of Aging Have Upended Presidential Race |
A March 2024 US Supreme Court decision overturned attempts from lower state courts to ban Donald Trump from the ballots in state elections.[2]
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.[3][4][5]
Tampering Attempts?
Law enforcement officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, arrested a temporary election worker for allegedly stealing a security fob and keys from a ballot tabulation center in June of 2024.[6]
Assassination attempt
| During a rally, Donald Trump was shot and seen bleeding, causing Secret Service agents to rush him away with guns drawn. He was quickly escorted to a vehicle for safety. |
- Full article: Donald Trump/Assassination attempt
- Full article: Donald Trump/Assassination attempt
On the 14th of July 2024, US Republican Party candidate Donald Trump was shot during a campaign rally, his shooter was shot dead. The gunmen fired multiple shots resulting in at least 1 other visitor dying.[7] This was the first time that a former or current U.S. president or presidential candidate was injured in an attempted assassination since president Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.[8] The FBI called the shooting an assassination attempt against the former President and dispatched a "counterterrorism" unit to take over the investigation.[9][10]
Candidates
Democrat
Declared
- Joe Biden (withdrew and gave his support to US Vice President Kamala Harris in July of 2024)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr
- Marianne Williamson
Republican
Declared
- Chris Christie
- Ron DeSantis
- Larry Elder
- Nikki Haley
- Asa Hutchinson
- Mike Pence
- Vivek Ramaswamy
- Tim Scott
- Francis X. Suarez
- Donald Trump (elected on 15th of July as GOP candidate)
Libertarian
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.[11] [12]
Dr Jill Stein was announced as standing as the US/Green Party candidate in the US/2024 Presidential election in November of 2023. She previously stood in the 2012 and 2016 US presidential election campaigns.[13]
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.” |
References
- ↑ https://ballotpedia.org/Congressional_apportionment_after_the_2020_census
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-speaks-after-supreme-court-ruling-tells-biden-to-fight-your-fight-yourself
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231128001115/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/upshot/democrats-biden-hispanic-black-voters.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231128001050/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/politics/biden-trump-2024-poll.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231128000939/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/upshot/poll-biden-young-voters.html
- ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-election-worker-arrested-allegedly-stealing-security-device-tabulation-center
- ↑ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rally-shooter-death-attendee-butler-county-da/
- ↑ John Hinckley
- ↑ https://x.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1812286595405677007
- ↑ https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231104193319/https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-poll-biden-trump-rcna123356
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231103180057/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/27/presidential-election-third-parties
- ↑ Jill Stein#2024 election campaign'.
