US/Presidential election/2024

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Date	November 5, 2024
Description	60th quadrennial presidential election.

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

Results

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“'I'm tired of hearing this is the biggest election in your lifetime. The reality is over time, it doesn't matter.' [CEO Larry Fink] said that BlackRock works with both administrations and is "having conversations" with both Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump.”
Larry Fink (October 2024) 

Republican Donald Trump won with 312 electoral college votes (75,889,100 votes–50.2%) defeating Democrat Kamala Harris with 226 electoral college votes (72,876,769 votes–48.2%). President-elect Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated on 20 January 2025 as the 47th POTUS, succeeding President Biden.

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

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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.

The Washington Post will not endorse a candidate for the first time in 36 years, after favouring democtratic candidates for almost a century.

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.

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. 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. The FBI called the shooting an assassination attempt against the former President and dispatched a "counterterrorism" unit to take over the investigation.

Candidates

Six presidential candidates stood for election on 5 November 2024:

• Claudia De la Cruz, Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Kamala Harris, Democratic Party
• Chase Oliver, Libertarian Party
• Jill Stein, US/Green Party
• Donald J. Trump, Republican Party
• Cornel West, Independent

Democrat

Declared

• Joe Biden (withdrew and gave his support to US Vice President Kamala Harris in July of 2024)
• Marianne Williamson
• Dean Phillips

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

Declared

• Chase Oliver

Eliminated at convention

• Michael Rectenwald
• Mike ter Maat

Speculated

• Justin Amash
• Dave Smith

Independents, other third parties, or party unknown

Declared

• Claudia De la Cruz
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr (Campaign suspended in August)
• Jill Stein
• Cornel West

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. In August 2024, RFK Jr announced he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Donald Trump.

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.

Cornel West is running as an independent candidate with Melina Abdullah.

References