The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.[1] The Republican Party's ticket—Donald Trump, who was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD Vance, the junior U.S. senator from Ohio—defeated the Democratic Party's ticket—Kamala Harris, the incumbent U.S. vice president, and Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota.[2][3] Trump and Vance are scheduled to be inaugurated as the 47th president and the 50th vice president on January 20, 2025, after their formal election by the Electoral College .[4][5]
The incumbent president, Joe Biden of the Democratic Party, initially ran for re-election. However, what was broadly considered a poor debate performance in June 2024 intensified concerns about his age and health, and led to calls within his party for him to leave the race.[6] After initially declining to do so, Biden withdrew on July 21, becoming the first eligible incumbent president to withdraw since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968.[7] Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris,[8] who was voted the party's nominee by the delegates on August 5, 2024.[9] Harris selected Walz as her running mate.[10][11]
Trump, who had lost in 2020 to Biden, ran for re-election again.[12] He was nominated during the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024, along with his running mate, Vance, after winning the Republican primaries. Trump, aged 78, is also the oldest person ever to be elected U.S. president;[13] Trump survived two assassination attempts in the four months before the election: the first at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the second at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.[14][15]Trump achieved a decisive victory, sweeping every swing state in addition to holding on to all of the states that he won in 2020.[16][17] Trump won the national popular vote, making him the first Republican to do so since George W. Bush in 2004.[18] He significantly improved his vote share among almost all demographics nationwide, particularly among Hispanic voters, in a working class coalition described as the most racially diverse for a Republican presidential candidate in decades.[19][20][21] Having previously won in 2016, Trump became the second president elected to a non-consecutive second term, 132 years after Grover Cleveland defeated Benjamin Harrison in 1892; this was also the first election since 1892 in which the incumbent White House party was defeated in three consecutive elections.[22]
Harris won 226 electoral votes, the worst performance for a Democratic presidential ticket since that of Michael Dukakis in 1988.[23]
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- ^ Pettypiece, Shannon; Murray, Mark (July 22, 2024). "Timeline: From the Biden-Trump debate to Biden's withdrawal: 25 days that shook American politics". NBC News. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
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- ^ Goldmacher, Shane; Rogers, Katie; Epstein, Reid J.; Glueck, Katie (August 6, 2024). "How Kamala Harris Trusted Her Gut and Picked Tim Walz". The New York Times. ISSN 1553-8095. Retrieved November 10, 2024. Updated August 19, 2024.
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