The next U.S. presidential election is going to be the 60th one and is expected to take place on November 5, 2024. For this U.S. presidential election, the citizens in each state and District of Columbia elect the so-called electors who collectively make up the U.S. Electoral College and enable the selection of the president and the vice president for a term of four years.
Democratic Party Dynamics
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were some of the previous presidential contenders from the Democratic Party, while the incumbent president, Joe Biden, also from the Democratic Party, initially declared for re-nomination and thus formally became the designated candidate of the party for the election on March 12, 2024. Yet, the Dem’s campaign was not well done in the June 2024 presidential debate; besides, some new issues concerning both the age and the health of Biden emerged, and he withdrew from the race on July 21, 2024.
He later supported then-VP Kamala Harris, who also started her run for the presidency on the same day. Harris was then quickly able to garner enough delegate support. He went from “front-runner” status the next day, officially attaining the nomination at the Democratic National Convention on August 5, 2024. She nominated Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate the next day.
Biden’s withdrawal is quite historic, which makes him the first eligible incumbent president since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to not make a re-election bid and the first in history to drop out after getting the required number of delegate votes to claim the nomination. Harris’s campaign is special for being the first to begin without a person as a candidate for the presidency since Humphrey in 1968.
Republican Party Landscape
The candidate aspiring to contest in the 2024 U.S. presidential election is former President Donald Trump, who is vying under the Republican Party banner; he is vying for a second term, though he lost to the incumbent President Biden in the most recent 2020 election. He was, for example, viewed as the presumptive nominee after the party’s primaries held on March 12, 2024.
Trump’s campaign is already painted with controversies, one of which is linked to the legal cases and records where the president himself has been criminally convicted for thirty-four felonies, specifically for the charge of scheming to make false entries in business records. It has also undertaken civil litigation, resulting in charges of sexual abuse and libel against him.
Nevertheless, Trump secured a nomination in the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 15th, with the Vice President being JD Vance, an Ohio Senator. Since the start of his campaign, Trump has restarted his allegations of election fraud in the 2020 election and has claimed, with no credible evidence, that the 2024 election also might be rigged against him. That is why the rhetorical speaking of this man was discussed as violent, and the prophecy calling for an authoritative regime was heard.
Context of the Elections and the Main Topics
This is a result of the nature of general elections, where U.S. presidential election will be held alongside those of the Senate, House of Representatives, governors, and state legislature on the second Tuesday of November 2024. Based on the expectation of being influential, the states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Major campaign issues are expected to encompass a range of topics, including
- Abortion
- Border security and immigration
- Climate change
- Democracy and electoral integrity
- Economic policies
- Education
- Foreign policy
- Healthcare
- LGBTQ+ rights
The winners of this election will take the oath of office on January 20, 2025, and this will commence their four-year tenure in office as the 47th President of the United States of America and the 50th Vice President, respectively.
