2024 US Presidential Election (After the Status Quo)

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 Ohio Senator J.D. Vance defeated Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walt. This was the first election since 1892 where a president won two non-consecutive terms. 
Orginally set to face Trump in November, President Joe Biden dropped out in July due to concerns about his age and after what was widely seen as a poor debate performance against the former president. His Vice President, Kamala Harris, became the presumptive nominee and was nominated by convention roll call. Trump defeated a number of challengers in the Republican primaries, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. He secured the Republican nomination in July 2024 and chose Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. 
The public had a negative view of the economy due to an inflation crisis which occurred under Biden's term in early 2022. Although inflation dropped to pre-pandemic levels by Election Day, increases in consumer prices over Biden's term left many low income voters feeling uneasy. Unemployment slowly rose over the course of the year, leading to fears of a recession, although the federal reserve alleviated this trend by cutting interest rates in September. Levels of undocumented immigration had also increased substantially due to a political crisis in Venezuela, forcing millions of Venezuelan migrants to seek refuge in American cities. These factors were seen as weakening the traditional Democratic support of working class Black and Hispanic voters. 
President Trump’s legal troubles were widely discussed 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. Attempts to disqualify him from the presidential ballot on the grounds of participating in the attack were overturned by the Supreme Court in Griswold vs Colorado. In May of 2020, he was convicted on 32 charges in a Manhattan case involving a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. An assassination attempt also occurred days before the Republican convention, causing a surge in support for the former president.