# 2024 United States presidential election

The 2024 United States presidential election was be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters elected a president and vice president for a term of four years. Incumbent President Joe Biden, a member of the Democratic Party, was running for re-election until he withdrew on July 21, 2024; Kamala Harris, the vice-president, quickly replaced him as the Democratic nominee. Biden's predecessor Donald Trump, a member of the Republican Party, is the candidate for re-election to a second, nonconsecutive term. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other candidates unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination. In August 2024, Trump was endorsed by Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. abandoning his campaign as an independent candidate; originally, he intended to challenge Biden for the Democratic Party nomination. Trump was declared the victor of this election on November 6th, 2024, and is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2025.

## Debates

* Jill Biden will not be remembered kindly in American history
** Meghan Mccain
* Folks, I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to.
I might not debate as well as I used to.
But what I do know is how to tell the truth.
** Biden
* There’s no way whoever is in charge of this presidency didn’t know this man was suffering from serious cognitive challenges. I loathe today’s Democrats, but when they can manage to make me feel sorry for Joseph Biden, they are more than loathsome. They are beyond reproach.
** James Woods
* We finally beat Medicare..[[[trump]]]]]
** Biden
* They should use the commercial break to swap in the real Democratic nominee. The only time Biden came remotely close to life in the debate is when he’s talking about Trump’s conviction and J6. Turns out he doesn’t give a damn about the things Americans actually care about.
** Vivek Ramaswamy
The choice in this election remains very simple. It's a choice between someone who cares about you—your rights, your prospects, your future—versus someone who's only in it for himself. I'll be voting Biden.
* Hillary Clinton
* Trump’s strongest moment was when he said he wanted Biden to be a good President so Trump didn’t have to put himself through this. Came across as authentic, credible, honest, unifying. That kind of candor, contrasted with Biden’s apparent lobotomy, won over a lot of independents.
** Vivek G Ramaswamy
* Did I just
Hallucinate The disastrous presidential debate?trump]]]]]
** Dr Jordan B Peterson
* Jill Biden will not be remembered kindly in American history
** Meghan Mccain
* Folks, I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to.
I might not debate as well as I used to.
But what I do know is how to tell the truth.
** Biden
* There’s no way whoever is in charge of this presidency didn’t know this man was suffering from serious cognitive challenges. I loathe today’s Democrats, but when they can manage to make me feel sorry for Joseph Biden, they are more than loathsome. They are beyond reproach.
** James Woods
* We finally beat Medicare..[[[trump]]]]]
** Biden
* They should use the commercial break to swap in the real Democratic nominee. The only time Biden came remotely close to life in the debate is when he’s talking about Trump’s conviction and J6. Turns out he doesn’t give a damn about the things Americans actually care about.
** Vivek Ramaswamy
The choice in this election remains very simple. It's a choice between someone who cares about you—your rights, your prospects, your future—versus someone who's only in it for himself. I'll be voting Biden.
* Hillary Clinton
* Trump’s strongest moment was when he said he wanted Biden to be a good President so Trump didn’t have to put himself through this. Came across as authentic, credible, honest, unifying. That kind of candor, contrasted with Biden’s apparent lobotomy, won over a lot of independents.
** Vivek G Ramaswamy
* Did I just
Hallucinate The disastrous presidential debate?
** Dr Jordan B Peterson

## Interviews with candidates

* Full interview: Vice President Kamala Harris sits down with Bret Baier in 'Special Report' exclusive (October 16, 2024) a Fox video
* Fox News Shannon Bream interviews Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz (October 13, 2024)

## Quotes

* Under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. And elections? Forget about it. That’s over. That’s done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave. He will never leave.
** Robert De Niro
* What if the weakest president we’ve ever had was re-elected?
** RNC ad
* MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6—brutally attacking law enforcement—not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger to the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots. And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people. This time, they're determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people. That's why respected conservatives, like Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig, has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, quote, a "clear and present danger" to our democracy.
** Joe Biden, Address on United States Democracy in Philadelphia, 1 September 2022
* A new Gallup poll showed that just 33 percent of Americans are satisfied with the nation's position in the world today. This is down from 65 percent in 2000. As Donald Trump and Joe Biden—two historically old and deeply unpopular presidential candidates—square off yet again for America's top job, it's not hard to understand these sentiments. America is in decline in the 21st century in measure after measure, from numerous public-policy failures, to increasingly dysfunctional politics, to an epidemic of mental health issues among young people. This predicament raises two essential questions: Is America's downturn merely another dip in a long arc of non-linear, yet essentially upward, progress? Or is it, rather, the first phase of steep and irreversible national decline? The answer lies with the American people. Like all nations, America is, above all, the hearts and minds of its people. And the trend line is moving hard in the wrong direction: Things are getting worse, not better. Tribalism is intensifying. Social-media platforms are getting smarter at manipulating human cognition. The political system's defects are worsening. And America's public-policy failures are deepening.
** William Cooper, Newsweek, "America Is in Decline" 19 April 2024
* This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state, expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, and we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will defeat crooked Joe Biden. We will liberate America from these villains once and for all.
** Donald Trump, Trump told the audience at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner
* You keep your promises to those that we've made, promises to. Those that have invested in should keep what they have. We shouldn't in any way jeopardize those that are already expecting something. This is about the new group coming in. It's the new ones coming in. It's those in their twenties that are coming in. You're coming to them and you're saying the game has changed. We're going to do this completely differently. That's how you go and you focus on it. We've got to start doing things like that. But more than that, we have to look at the fact that there is a spending problem in DC and Republicans and Democrats have done this to us, Neil. Don't forget that when this all started, with the Republicans, they passed a $2.2 trillion COVID stimulus package 419-6 in the House and 96 to 0 in the Senate that expanded welfare. Now we have 90 million people on Medicaid. You've got 42 million people on food stamps. We should be taking people from welfare to work. We shouldn't be paying people to sit on the couch and adding to the rolls of welfare. It was under Republicans' watch. They opened up earmarks again. Why are we spending on pork projects when one in six Americans can't pay their utility bill? We should stop borrowing. We don't have endless credit cards in our households or our businesses. Why are we allowing that to happen? And we should make sure that they understand that you should not pass a spending bill that doesn't take us back to pre-COVID levels. This is going to have to be harsh. It's going to take a president that is going to call out Republicans and Democrats. I did that as governor. I'll do it again as president.
** Nikki Haley, Fox News appearance, as quoted in Nikki Haley slams Biden's proposed budget: 'The ultimate socialist president (9 March 2023)
* Donald Trump is the weakest president in American history when it comes to China, Chinese officials are pulling for his re-election.
** Biden Campaign
* Washington’s hawkish stance on China is here to stay, irrespective of who wins the presidency in the 2024 election.
** foreignpolicy
* It's time to finish the job.
** Biden reelection
* Republicans are focused on voter ID rules and making it harder to cast mail ballots.
** nytimes
* Donald Trumps set a foreign policy pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want World War 3? Vote for the other guy.
** politico
If 2016 was the most important election in our lifetimes, 2024 is shaping up to be the most dispiriting.
* If he is re-elected, [Biden] he'll be 82 on Inauguration Day in 2025.
* The video of Joe Biden falling at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation should point that he shouldn't be running in 2024.
** WashingtonExaminer
* This election is a referendum on the failures of Joe Biden - an open border, inflation, and a woke ideology infecting our society.
** DeSantis 2024
* Within 6 months , we're gonna drill , get our energy down, close up our border.
** Trump reveals actions he'll take in first 6 months as president
* Ron DeSantis voted against the wall.
** misleading Trump ad
* Ron [DeSantis] was a big lockdown governor on the China virus, sealing all beaches and everything else for an extended period.
** Trump ad
* 'Great American comeback'
** Ron DeSanti
* Crooked Democrat Prosecutors, many of them Racists in Reverse, are trying to steal a second Presidential Election, They did it in 2020, and we’re not going to let them do it again in 2024. MAGA!!!
** Truth social
* I was on Twitter spaces earlier tonight and it broke the internet.
** DeSantis campaign speech
* On day one of my new administration, I will direct the DOJ to investigate every radical district attorney and attorney general in America for their illegal, racist ... enforcement of the law
** Trump campaign speech
* DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win – he doesn’t even need to campaign.
** Elon Musk
* To further drain the swamp, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. We’re going to ask that everyone that sells drug, that gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts because it’s the only way.
** Trump's proposed policy changes for his 'National Greatness Agenda'
* a hypothetical three-way 2024 election outcome is in which Biden wins only California and Connecticut, Trump wins nine hardcore Republican states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and a No Labels candidate wins the 39 remaining states.
** VOA
* DeSantis has sold himself to the Republican establishment as a less chaotic avatar of Trumpism than Trump himself.
** Don vs. Ron: Why Trump is trouncing DeSantis in 2024 race
* With 2024 campaigns underway, we will stop removing videos with false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.
** Youtube
* We want a good CEO of America.
** Elon Musk
* It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him.
** McCarthy nypost
* Biden and his administration “have weaponized the government against their political opponents.”
** RNC BRIDGE MICHIGAN
* They can't beat me at the ballet box so they are out there trying to take me out by other means, anything they can think of, if I didn't run for office or if I wasn't leading by a lot it would all end and end very nicely I'd have a much easier life. On November 5th 2024 justice will be done.
** Trump
* The next Republican president, in short, will almost certainly be the worst boss.
** NYTimes
* United States is in a cold war with China and actually at war with Russia.
** Forbes
* This election will decide whether your generation inherits a FASCIST country or a FREE country—whether you will have the rule of tyrants or the rule of law—whether Marxist radicals burn our civilization to the ground, which they’re looking to do, or young patriots like you propel America to glorious new heights.
** Turning point trump
* We’re at such a low point in the American empire. Its spiritual decay and its immoral decadence are so profound that we have to begin on the foundational level of a spiritual awakening and a moral reckoning. Organized greed. Institutionalized hatred. Routinized indifference to the lives of poor and working people of all colors. We’ve got to get beyond an analysis of the predatory capitalist processes that have saturated every nook and cranny of the culture. We’ve got to get beyond the ways in which the political system has been colonized by corporate wealth and by monied elite. We’ve got to get beyond that sense of impotence of the citizenry. These are all the signs of an empire in decline. The only thing that we have to add is military overreach, and we see that as well.
** Cornel West, Speaking to Chris Hedges about his decision to run for president in 2024. Chris Hedges: Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for President. Scheerpost. June 5, 2023
* I'm here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States.
** Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., From a speech in Philadelphia, as cited in "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president, ending Democratic primary challenge to Biden", CNN (9 October 2023)
* And this ain't a good sequel like Paddington 2. It's more like we're watching The Temple of Doom. No, this ain't The Empire Strikes Back It's the time you tried to reheat your Big Mac! This ain't even Fast and Furious 6! It's more like that Home Alone we got on Netflix! I think Olivia Rodrigo would agree. This is even worse than your ex eatin' strawberry ice cream, no! This ain't The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. This was Shrek: Forever After when it stole two hours of my life! It's not The Dark Knight! It's my high school production of Grease and I'm the only guy Because the football coach wouldn't let anyone miss a practice day! And if I do recall, they finished last anyway! Now I'm onstage doo-woppin' by myself That's when someone in the back row screams, "I'm in hell!" I feel lower than dirt, smaller than nothing And on the next day my junior prom date dumped me! We've all been there, right? Anyway, that's what this election feels like.
** "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Deja Vu (But Worse)," 28 June 2024
* NBC News exit polls show democracy and the economy were top of mind for voters today, followed by abortion and immigration.
** MSNBC according to Live updates: Trump-Harris election results to start trickling in after first polls close (Nov. 5, 2024)

## Video clips

* "On Jan. 6, 2021, an angry mob of Donald Trump supporters swarmed a CBC News crew working near Capitol Hill. Nearly four years later, reporter Katie Nicholson tracked down one of the people who surrounded her that day to find out what she’s thinking heading into another volatile U.S. presidential election."
** Reporter tracks down Jan. 6 protester who told her to 'run' A video by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (October 15,2024)
* I think that if you-- you, you ask me right now, why it went down this way? Ballpark answer: Misogyny, weakened rhetoric on immigration -- that is to say, Democrats stopped pushing back against anti-immigrant sentiment and started kind of adopting it themselves -- and a lack of economic populism. They are fighting for procedural institutionalist rhetoric in a world that is populist.
** Vaush, in response to Kamala Harris' loss, on 6 November 2024 -- "Yeah, It Was Really Bad"