2024 United States Presidential Election (Om's World)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. The Republican ticket of Former President Donald Trump and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard defeated the incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. This is the first presidential election in which both major party tickets consisted of at least one female candidate and one nonwhite candidate and the second time in American history where a president won two nonconsecutive elections. 
President Joe Biden decided to run for re-election. He easily won the Democratic nomination. On the Republican side, Donald Trump initially faced a divided field including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and former Vice President Mike Pence, but went on to win all of the primary contests. 
Due to his age, many Americans saw Biden as weak and unable to deal with a growing number of global conflicts. Efforts to negotiate with Republicans in Congress over aid to Ukraine broke down, resulting in a complete Russian takeover of Ukraine. On the domestic front, A surge of migrants at the southern border due to a crisis in Venezuela 
Despite averting an economic crisis after the COVID-19 pandemic and low unemployment, public perceptions of the economy were largely negative. Inflation, caused by economic stimulus bills passed during the pandemic under both Trump and Biden, dropped to pre-pandemic levels by Election Day but was cited by voters as a major issue. 
President Trump’s legal troubles dominated the headlines during the election. Trump faced 91 criminal charges in four separate cases, some of which involved his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and participation in the January 6 Capitol attack. Concerns about the former president’s eligibility were addressed in Trump vs. Anderson, in which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Colorado could not remove the former president from the ballot on the grounds of the 14th amendment. In Trump v. US, the court ruled 7-2 that the former president was not immune from criminal prosecution. As a result, in October, the US District Court in Washington DC found Trump and his conspirators guilty on three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction. Because of this, and a sudden Biden surge in the polls, many pundits believed Biden was favored to win the election. 
== Nominations ==
===Democratic Party===
Biden became the nominee of the Democratic Party when he secured enough delegates to ensure his nomination at the Democratic National Convention on July 22.
Democratic Party ticket, 2028	Democratic Party ticket, 2028
Joseph R. Biden 	Kamala D. Harris
for President 	for Vice President
 	
President of the United States of America
(2021-2025)	Vice President of the United States of America
(2021-2025)
"Let's finish the job" 	"Let's finish the job"
===Republican Party===
Trump became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party on June 12, 2024, when he secured enough delegates to ensure his nomination at the national convention. He was formally nominated at the convention on July 15.
Republican Party ticket, 2028	Republican Party ticket, 2028
Donald J. Trump 	Tulsi Gabbard
for President 	for Vice President
 	
President of the United States
(2017-2021, 2021-2025)	Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 
(2013-2021)
"Make America Great Again" 	"Make America Great Again"
== General election campaign ==
=== Issues unique to the election ===
==== Free Trump movement ====
Simultaneous investigations were launched by the FBI and Justice Department after the discovery of 15 boxes in former President Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate containing important documents from his presidency, some of which were marked as classified and a smaller number of which were at the "top secret" level. The results of the FBI investigation, written by Director Christopher Wray and send to Attorney General Merrick Garland, showed that Trump has violated the espionage act by unlawfully taking the documents, destroying some, and selling others of the documents to the Saudi Government, the latter of which contained sensitive information about Israel's nuclear weapons program. Additionally, Trump was accused obstruction of justice as he intentionally hid the documents from investigators. Wray recommended criminal charges, which were filed against the former president by the department of justice. Trump was formally indicted by a grand jury on November 9, 2022, and subsequently found guilty on all of the related charges on August 20, 2023. The former president was then transferred to a federal prison, in which he received protection from secret service. 
The indictment and conviction sparked backlash among Republicans who alleged the Biden administration was trying to bar the former president from running in the 2024 election. Frequent references were made to Hillary Clinton, whose alleged mishandling of classified information and use of a private email server to facilitate government business which was a source of controversy in the 2016 election. Political commentator and television host Tucker Carlson subsequently launched a "Free Trump" show on FOX news, where Trump's indictment was discussed at length. Although initially speaking out against the president's indictment, DeSantis distanced himself from the subject. 
Voting reform laws
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, President Donald Trump falsely claimed the election was rigged against him and blamed mail-in ballots, dominion voting machines, and illegal immigrants. As a result, Republican-controlled states the country passed election reform bills. Such bills restricted access to the ballot box for convicted felons and included provisions that generally made it more difficult to vote. Georgia Senate Bill 202, passed by the Georgia state legislature in early 2021, was an early source of contention, as it required voter ID requirements on absentee ballots, limited the use of ballot drop boxes, and made it a crime for outside groups to give free food or water to voters waiting in line. States such as Texas and Florida followed with similar laws, and after the 2022 midterm elections, newly elected republican trifectas in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania did the same. The Harris campaign pledged to enact major election reforms at the federal level in order to reverse these laws. The Carlson campaign accused the Harris campaign of wanting to "harvest" ballots and campaigned on the unpopular provision of Harris's voting rights plan which would have financed political campaigns with taxpayer money. Carlson also campaigned against laws passed by Democratic-controlled states meant to restrict the ability for people to bring firearms to polling locations.
==== Impeachment and Censure of Joe Biden ====
After Republicans took control of the House of Representatives with a 232-301 majority and a 52-48 majority in the US Senate during the 2022 midterm elections, former President Trump insisted the newly-Republican-controlled house impeach the sitting president Joe Biden. On April 5, 2023, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced a formal investigation into Joe Biden's son, Hunter's, position on the board of Ukranian energy company Burisma and the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin under Biden's time as Vice President. An email recovered by the New York Post from Hunter Biden's laptop confirmed Joe Biden had met with advisor to the board of Burisma Vadym Pozharskyi in a meeting arranged by his son in 2015. This meeting was further confirmed by a phone call between Biden and an intermediate to Pozharskyi. Although no evidence had emerged that Joe Biden's meeting with the advisor was a condition of his son's employment, articles of impeachment were filed on January 2, 2024. The House of Representatives voted on a partisan line to impeach the president for bribery. The articles were sent to the Senate the following week, where a motion to limit witnesses was introduced was passed. After a short trial, the Senate failed to convict the President on a 50-50 vote, with senators Mitt Romney and Susan Collins voting to acquit Biden. The House then voted to censure the President, making Biden the first President to be censured since William Howard Taft in 1912. 
==== Abortion ====
In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on a 6-3 basis that states which sought to limit abortions could do so after 12 weeks of gestation, half that of the 24 week period dictated in Roe, further eroding the precedent established in Roe v. Wade. This ruling was the catalyst for a new wave of women's rights marches, both in the U.S. and around the world. The Harris campaign capitalized on the frustration of the marchers, promising to appoint justices to the supreme court who would rule to restore Roe and to rule favorably in all abortion-related cases. 
==== COVID-19 ====
Although initial vaccination efforts under Biden saw great successes, administering more than 200 million vaccines in the first 100 days of his presidency, the news that Johnson and Johnson would temporarily be revoking the use of their vaccines for younger patients due to a rare blood clotting symptom caused vaccinations rates to suddenly plummet. The country would not reach herd as experts hoped it would, and vaccination rates varied dramatically by region, with rural regions having much lower vaccination rates than those of cities and suburbs. As a result, the country witnessed a spike in COVID-19 cases every few months, with some states periodically closing and reopening public services and enforcing mask mandates with the hope of stopping the spread of new strains which were increasingly easier-to-spread and deadlier. Debates ranged over whether the federal government was to continue supplying aid to states afflicted by the pandemic. 
==== Russia ====
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== Results ==
=== Electoral results ===
The numbers in the table are the results certified by each state, detailed in the table of the results by state further below.
Presidential CandidateVice Presidential Candidate	Party 	Popular Votes	% 	Electoral Votes
Donald TrumpTulsi Gabbard 	Republican 	71,299,430 	47.5%	300
Joe Biden
Kamala Harris 	Democratic 	71,756, 833 	47.3%	237
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Jose Ventura 	We the People 	 	6.5% 	
 	Libertarian 	1,897,335 	1.3% 	0
Jill SteinDario Hunter 	Green 	729,641 	0.5% 	0
Total 	Total 	145,928,060 	100% 	538
Eligible Voters and Turnout 	Eligible Voters and Turnout	 	59.6%	244,845,744
===Results by state===
State or District 	EV's	Harris/CooperDemocratic	DeSantis/HaleyRepublican	Margin
Alabama 	8 	32.8% 	65.0% 	32.2%
Alaska 	3 	40.1% 	52.6% 	12.5%
Arizona 	11 	49.0% 	49.1% 	0.2%
Arkansas 	6 	32.5% 	65.4% 	30.5%
California 	54 	63.0% 	34.5% 	27.5%
Colorado 	10 	57.2% 	40.8% 	15.2%
Connecticut 	7 	57.2% 	41.2% 	16.0%
Delaware 	3 	56.6% 	41.4% 	15.2%
District of Columbia	3 	92.4% 	6.1% 	86.3%
Florida 	30 	44.4% 	56.4% 	5.9%
Georgia 	16 	50.0% 	48.7% 	1.3%
Hawaii 	4 	63.2% 	32.2% 	30.0%
Idaho 	4 	35.0% 	63.6% 	28.6%
Illinois 	19 	54.3% 	44.3% 	12.1%
Indiana 	11 	39.5% 	58.9% 	19.4%
Iowa 	6 	40.9% 	56.9% 	16.0%
Kansas 	6 	43% 	55% 	12.8%
Kentucky 	8 	34% 	64% 	29.2%
Louisiana 	8 	38% 	60% 	23.5%
Maine at-large 	2 	50.0% 	47. 3% 	4.3%
Maine 1st 	1 	58% 	39% 	19.3%
Maine 2nd 	1 	41% 	55% 	8.9%
Massachusetts 	11 	64 	34 	32.9%
Maryland 	10 	63% 	35 	30.0%
Michigan 	15 	49% 	49% 	3.3%
Minnesota 	1o 	51.1% 	47.1% 	4.0%
Mississippi 	6 	40.0% 	58.1% 	18.1%
Missouri 	10 	42.5% 	55.3% 	16.4%
Montana 	4 	38.8% 	56.4% 	19.6%
North Carolina 	16 	48.3% 	50.1% 	0.4%
North Dakota 	3 	30.0% 	67.3% 	37.3%
New Hampshire 	4 	50.6% 	47.8% 	1.9%
New Jersey 	14 	54.5% 	43.5% 	16.4%
New Mexico 	5 	51.2% 	45.8% 	7.4%
New York 	28 	56.1% 	41.9% 	20.6%
Nebraska at-large 	2 	40.0% 	59.3% 	19.3%
Nebraska 1st 	1 	40.6% 	57.6% 	17.0%
Nebraska 2nd 	1 	51.6% 	46.5% 	5.1%
Nebraska 3rd 	1 	23.9% 	74.0% 	50.1%
Nevada 	6 	45.6% 	52.8% 	0.8%
Ohio 	17 	41.5% 	56.4% 	14.9%
Oklahoma 	7 	32.9% 	66.3% 	33.4%
Oregon 	8 	55.5% 	40.7% 	14.8%
Pennsylvania 	19 	48.0% 	49.6% 	1.9%
Rhode Island 	4 	58.6% 	40.2% 	18.4%
South Carolina 	9 	41.1% 	57.5% 	16.4%
South Dakota 	3 	33.4% 	64.5% 	31.1%
Tennessee 	11 	37.7% 	60.2% 	22.5%
Texas 	40 	47.1% 	51.5% 	4.4%
Utah 	6 	36.1% 	59.1% 	23.0%
Vermont 	3 	60.2% 	36.3% 	23.9%
Virginia 	13 	54.4% 	43.6% 	10.8%
West Virginia 	4 	26.4% 	70.9% 	44.5%
Washington 	12 	57.8% 	41.2% 	16.6%
Wisconsin 	10 	47.1% 	51.1% 	4.0%
Wyoming 	3 	25.0% 	70.8% 	45.8%
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