2024 United States presidential election(someone wrote it why do u need to know who)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrenial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2024. Voters selected a president and vice president who served for four years. The Democratic ticket of Incumbent President Joe Biden and Incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris defeated the Republican ticket of Former President Donald Trump and South Dakota Govenor Kristi Noem. It was the first rematch of a presidential election since 1956. 
Prior to the election, political parties chose their nominees at nominating conventions. Delegates to the nominating conventions were chosen by voters in state level cauceses and and primary elections. 
The election occured simultaniously with election in the US Senate and the US House. Several states also held gubernatorial and state legeslative elections. Crime, education, immigration, gun control, healthcare, abortion acces, LGBTQIA+ rights(specifically transgender rights), the state of the economy, the age of Trump and Biden, and climate change were leading issuses. 
== Backround ==
=== Procedure ===
Article 2 of the United States Constitution states that for a person to be president, the indvidual must be a natural born citizen of the United States, be at least 35 years old, and have lived in the US for more than 14 years. The Twenty-Second Ammendmant prevents anyone from being elected more than twice. Major party candidates seek the nomination through a series of primary elections that select the delegates who choose the candidate at the party's national convention. Each party's national convention also chooses a vice president to form the party's ticket. The nominee for president usually picks the vice president, who is then ratified by the delegates.
=== Electoral Map ===
==== Effects of the 2020 census ====
This was the first U.S. presidential election to occur the reapportioment of votes in the United States Electoral College following the 2020 United States Census. If the results of the 2020 election stayed the same(which did not and has never happened) in 2024, the Democrats would have had 303 electoral votes against the Republicans 235, a slight change from the previous election with 306 and 232, meaning the Democrats lost a net of 3 electoral votes to the reapportioment process. The apportioment of electoral votes only remained through 2028. In 2030, reapportioment was conducted again after the census.
==== Electoral Partnarship ====
In presidential elections, most states are usually not competetive because of demographics keeping them behind a party. Because of the electoral college swing states-states that "swing" from party to party are key to winning a presidential election. At the time of the 2024 election those included the Rust Belt, such as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, and the Sun Belt, such as Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. North Carolina was also a swing state. By 2024, some swing states such as Iowa, Ohio, and Florida had shifted to the Republican and were no longer considered swing states, while Colorado, New Mexico, and Virgina shifted towards the Democrats, also losing swing state status. 
"Blue states", which were states Democrats can count on winning, was mostly composed of minorities (especially African-Americans and Latinos), women, educated people, and people in large cities. Working class voters were traditionally part of the Democtats' voters due to FDRs' New Deal, but in the decades preciding the 2020s some shifted towards the Republicans due to the Democrats becoming more diverse and liberal. On the other hand, Red States, states Republicans could count on winning, were composed of rural white voters, evangilicals, the elderly, and non-educated people. Republicans also historically preformed well with suburban and middle class voters, but many of these voted turned away from the Republican Party due to the rise of the Tea Party and Make America Great Again movements, both of those movements supported by Donald Trump. In 2020, these trends helped Biden to win the election, and they presisted into 2024 and again helped Biden in his victory due to suburban and middle class voters dislike of former president Trump.
== Democratic Primary ==
In late 2021, Biden was suffering from low approval ratings, there was speculation that he wouldn't run for re-election, and some democrates even told him he shouldn't run. In addition to his unpopularity, people were concerned about Bidens' age; at 78 years old, he was the oldest president to be innagurated and would be 82 at the end of his term. If he was re-elected, he would be 86 at the end of his second term. Polls also showed that many Americans didn't want him to run due to his age, with 70% saying they didn't want him to run because of this. Meanwhile, Biden approval rating was only 40%. There was thought that Biden would recieve a challenger from the party's progressive faction. However in 2022, the Democrats did much better than excpected in the mid-term elections, and Biden's approval ratings went up.
No challenger from the progressive faction emerged, and although Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did oppose Biden, he easily secured the nomination, and Kennedy dropped out and ran as an independant. Biden chose Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate again.
== Republican Primary ==
President Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 election by Joe Biden, and was elligable to seek a second, non-consecutive term as president. He announced his candidacy on November 15, 2022. Trump also announced that Mike Pense would not be his Vice President. 
In March 2023, Trump was indicted over his hush money payments to not-so-appropriate film actress Stormy Daniels. He was indicted again in June over his handling of classified documents which contained material sensative to national security. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges related to those indictments.
Florida Govenor Ron DeSantis was seen as the primary challenger to former president Trump; he raised much more campaing funds than Trump and at the end of 2022 was polling better than him. On May 24, 2023, he announced his candidacy. However in summer 2023 DeSantis suddenly dropped in polls, and Trump shot back up to 52% with DeSantis at 15. Other candidates included Ryan Binkley, Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Lary Elder, Nikki Haley, Will Hurd, Asa Hutchinson, Perry Johnson, Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, and Corey Stapleton. Trump secured the nomination by May 2024.
== Campagin Issues ==
=== Legality of Abortion ===
The legality of abortion was a major topic during the campagin. It was the first presidential election to be held after two major court ruilings that affected acces to abortion. The first was the 2022 Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health , where the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, leaving the legality of abortion up to states. The second was the 2023 Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine vs. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where a federal judge in Texas overturned the FDA's of mifepristone in 2000, which pulled the medication from the market when it was upheld by other courts. Both ruilings were supported by Republicans.
By 2023, the majority of Republican controlled states passed near total bans on abortion. With 15 states with de jure bans on abortion without the exception of rape or incest, it was largelly illeagal throughout much of the United States.
Biden and democrats in general supported protecting reproductive rights. Trump didn't actively campagin on abortion very much, but said he did not support the federal government protecting abortion and thought it was up to the states to choose. Some republicans in the primaries advocated for a national ban on abortion. Ultimatley, a thin majority of Americans at the time supported abortion rights, and due to the fact Biden and the democrats campagined for its legality, the scales were tipped in their favor.
=== Economic Issuses ===
The COVID-19 pandemic left behind significant economic effects that presisted into 2024. A period of high inflation began in 2021, caused by a combination of events such as the pandemic and a supply chain crisis, which was hightened by the economic effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Women were particularly affected by the economic crisis that followed the pandemic, particularly those who left their work for child care responsiblities.
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