2024 Presidential Election (Cosmic's World)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. The Republican ticket of Floridian Governor Ron DeSantis and former Representative, Tulsi Gabbard, has defeated the incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden and incumbent vice president Kamala Harris. The election took place alongside the extreme tensions and cold war between NATO and the Russo-Chinese alliance. It was the 2nd time in a row where an incumbent President was beaten, and the sixth in the past 100 years, in which the incumbent president failed to win a second term. Many expected voter turnout to go below 60% in this election but due to good anti-establishment messaging and the selection of Tulsi Gabbard as his running mate, Ron DeSantis was able to get many progressive democratic voters. Ron DeSantis also took advantage of the vast majority of Hispanics disapproving of Joe Biden, and was able to make gains. This is also the first time since 2004 that a Republican won the popular vote and the largest popular vote win for a Republican since 1988. DeSantis' running mate, Tulsi Gabbard, became the first Republican female Vice President.
Biden won the Democratic nomination against progressive challenger Nina Turner. DeSantis won the Republican nomination against Former President Trump. Justin Amash secured the Libertarian nomination with Nick Gillespie as his running mate, and Nina Turner secured the Green nomination with Jumaane Williams as her running mate. The central issues of the election included the economic impacts of the NATO and Russian-Chinese Cold War; economic inflation; the failed packing of Supreme Court; the future of border security and the culture war.
== Nominations==
===Republican Party ===
Republican Party ticket, 2024	Republican Party ticket, 2024
Ron DeSantis 	Tulsi Gabbard
for President 	for Vice President
 	
Governor of Florida
(2019-2025)	Representative of Hawaii's 2nd District
(2013-2021)
"Make America Free" 	"Make America Free"
Democratic Party ticket, 2024	Democratic Party ticket, 2024
Joe Biden 	Kamala Harris
for President 	for Vice President
 	
President
of the United States
(2021-2025)	Vice President
of the United States
(2021-2025)
"Made in America" 	"Made in America"
==Republican Primaries==
Candidates
* Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida (2019-2027), Representative of FL-6 (2013-2018) (Nominee)
*Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States (2017–2021) 
* Larry Hogan, Governor of Maryland (2015-2023)
*Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States (2017-2021), Governor of Indiana (2017-2018)
* Mike Pompeo, United States Secretary of State (2018-2021), Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2017-2018)
==Democratic Primaries==
Joe Biden easily won the 2024 Democratic Nomination, facing nearly zero competition.
Candidates
*Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021–present), 47th Vice President of the United States (2009–2017), United States Senator from Delaware (1973–2009), New Castle County Councilor for District 4 (1971–1973), Democratic Party candidate for president in 1988 and 2008 (Nominee)
*Nina Turner, Member of the Ohio Senate from the 25th district (2008-2014)
==Debates ==
===1st Presidential Debate===
The first presidential debate was held at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. It was hosted by podcaster, Joe Rogan.
=== Vice Presidential Debate ===
The vice presidential debate was held at the University of California in Berkeley, California. It was hosted by Kristen Welker.
===2nd Presidential Debate===
The 2nd presidential debate was held at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. It was hosted by Tucker Carlson.
===3rd Presidential Debate===
The 3rd presidential debate was held at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. It was hosted by Rachel Maddow.
==Results==
Due to mail in ballots becoming less common, voter turnout went down. At approximately 12:42am EST DeSantis was declared the winner, surpassing 270 electoral votes. This call was made after he had won the state of Michigan. Major media networks project a state for a candidate once there is high statistical confidence that the outstanding vote would be unlikely to prevent the projected winner from ultimately winning that state. 
Ron DeSantis immediately came out to give his victory speech once the election was called at the DeSantis Campaign Headquarters in Miami, Florida. In his speech, he gave thanks to the people who helped him pull off wins in swing states. He thanked his running mate, Tulsi Gabbard, who campaigned across the country for him, and many of his supporters. President Joe Biden came out and conceded the election around noon of the next day, looking very distraught. It was viewed as a rather short concession compared to others, lasting only 4 minutes. Kamala Harris refused to stand alongside him and concede the race, going on to claim baseless allegations of mass fraud from Russians and voter suppression of black Americans. Former President Trump called her "Hillary 2.0" because of this, and said all of the claims of fraud are complete nonsense.
==Aftermath and Electoral Vote Counting==
Before, during, and after Election Day, Kamala Harris and several popular democratic politicians encouraged the idea of Russians influencing the election and many went on to object to the results at the electoral vote counting. 
The election results in each state and the District of Columbia were certified by December 9. The presidential electors formally cast their votes for president and vice president on December 14, and their votes were officially counted by Congress on January 6, 2025, despite an attempted attack by Antifa protestors on the Capitol. The main states that were objected to were Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Numerous house democrats objected, such as Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, Maxine Waters, and Joseph Kennedy III. Only two democratic senators objected though, Cory Booker and Mazie Hirono. DeSantis and Gabbard were inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
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