2028 Presidential Election (Cosmic's World)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 61st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2024. The Republican ticket of incumbent President Ron DeSantis and incumbent Vice President, Tulsi Gabbard, defeated former Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Senator Ben Ray Luján. This was the first election since 2012 that an incumbent President was re-elected. Most people credit DeSantis' victory to the thriving economy and calming-down of tensions between Russia and China. President DeSantis' calm but also passionate speeches were a stark contrast to those given by Former Presidents Trump and Biden. Overall, DeSantis' charisma is likely to have given him a lot more votes. Republicans expanded upon their popular vote victory margin, utilizing a strategy that was dubbed "Operation Suburbia" where moderate but popular Republicans such as Lee Zeldin and Glenn Youngkin went into the suburbs and talked about crime, along with other issues common to the area. As President, Ron DeSantis nominated 2 new Supreme Court Justices to replace the vacancies of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito following their resignations which occurred in 2025 and 2027. 
Harris won the Democratic nomination in a crowded field. DeSantis won the Republican nomination with basically zero opposition except for the short-lived Doug Ducey Presidential Campaign. Andrew Yang ran under the Forward Party with Larry Sharpe as his running mate. The Libertarian Party voted not run a candidate and endorse Andrew Yang. Cenk Uygur secured the Green nomination with Ana Kasparian as his running mate. The central issues of the election included the culture war, 
==Nominations==
===Republican Party===
Republican Party ticket, 2024 	Republican Party ticket, 2024
Ron DeSantis 	Tulsi Gabbard
for President 	for Vice President
 	
President of the United States (2025-2033)	Vice President of the United States (2025-2033)
"Keep America Free" 	"Keep America Free"
Democratic Party ticket, 2024	Democratic Party ticket, 2024
Kamala Harris 	Ben Ray Luján
for President 	for Vice President
 	
Vice President
of the United States
(2021-2025)	Senator
of New Mexico
(2021-2033)
"For the People" 	"For the People"
==Republican Primaries==
Candidates
*Ron DeSantis, Incumbent President of the United States (2025-2033), Governor of Florida (2019-2027), Representative of FL-6 (2013-2018) (Nominee)
*Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona (2015-2023)
==Democratic Primaries==
Kamala Harris won the crowded Democratic nomination
Candidates
*Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States (2021-2025), Senator of California (2017-2021) (Nominee)
*Gavin Newsom, Governor of California (2019-2027), Lieutenant Governor of California (2011-2019), Mayor of San Francisco (2004-2011)
*Pete Buttigieg, United States Secretary of Transportation (2021-2025), Mayor of South Bend (2012-2020)
*Hakeem Jeffries, Speaker of the House, Democratic House Leader, Representative of New York's 8th district (2013-2043)
*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Representative of New York's 14th district (2019-2061)
==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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