2024 U.S presidential election (UGT)

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The **2024 United States presidential election** was the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday November 5th, 2024. The Republican nominee, former UN Ambassador and Governor, Nikki Haley from South Carolina and her running mate, Governor Ron DeSantis from Florida defeated the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris from California and her running mate, U.S Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg from Indiana.

## Background

Incumbent President Joseph R. Biden, a Democrat and former Vice President and U.S Senator, was eligible to run for a second term, but decided not to because of age concerns. His term expired on January 20th, 2025 Noon Eastern Standard Time.

## Nominations

### Republican Party

The Republican Party had 20 major candidates run to get their party's presidential nomination.

#### Candidates

* **Nikki Haley, Former UN Ambassador (Nominee)**
* Mike Pence, Former U.S Vice President
* Ted Cruz, U.S Senator from Texas
* Mitt Romney, U.S Senator from Utah
* Marco Rubio, U.S Senator from Florida
* *Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida (VP Nominee)*
* Larry Hogan, Former Governor of Maryland
* Josh Hawley, U.S Senator from Missouri
* Allen West, Former U.S Representative from Florida and Texas GOP Chair
* Tom Cotton, U.S Senator from Arkansas
* Ben Sasse, U.S Senator from Nebraska
* Liz Cheney, U.S Representative from Wyoming
* Dan Crenshaw, U.S Representative from Texas
* Rand Paul, U.S Senator from Kentucky
* Mike Pompeo, Former U.S Secretary of State
* Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota
* Tim Scott, U.S Senator from South Carolina
* Chris Christie, Former Governor of New Jersey
* Joni Ernst, U.S Senator from Iowa
* Marsha Blackburn, U.S Senator from Tennessee

### Democratic Party

#### Candidates

* **Kamala Harris, U.S Vice President**
* Rashida Tlaib, U.S Representative from Michigan
* Howard Schultz, Businessman from Washington
* Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington
* Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina

### Libertarian Party

#### Candidates

* **Larry Sharpe, Businessman from New York (Nominee)**
* Spike Cohen, 2020 Libertarian vice-presidential nominee
* Vermin Supreme, Political satirist
* Jacob Hornberger, President of the Future for Freedom Foundation
* Adam Kokesh, Anti-war activist and anarcho-capitalist
* Sam Robb, Software engineer

### Green Party

#### Candidates

* **Howie Hawkins, 2020 Green presidential nominee (Nominee)**
* Dario Hunter, Rabbi
* Jimmy Dore, Political commentator and lunatic

## Campaign Issues

### Supreme Court

At the beginning of the year, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer resigned from the Supreme Court, leading a vacant Supreme Court seat. President Biden picked Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Leondra Kruger to replace Breyer, which she would become the first African-American female to be on the Supreme Court . Republicans were staunchly opposed, but also Moderate Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Krysten Simena (D-AZ) and Jon Tester (D-MT) opposed filling the seat until the next President was elected. Many pundits speculated that they wanted to block Kruger so they can win their re-election bids to the Senate in 2024, because they came from conservative states. This move wouldn't save any of them. Simena lost the Democratic primary to US Representative Ruben Gallego, which would go on to lose to Republican Kimberly Yee in the general.

Kamala Harris promised she would fill Breyer's seat with Leondra Kruger, but Haley wanted to pick a conservative to replace Breyer, to make the Supreme Court 7-2 conservative. Since Nikki Haley won the presidency, She would pick South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, an anti-LGBT staunch right-winger to the Supreme Court.

## Results

Haley defeated Harris, winning 315 electoral votes and 49% of the popular vote. This election was the closest election in the popular vote since 2000 and the largest electoral college victory since 2012. Haley's suburban appeal and winning over of moderate voters won her the election, approving way better among those voters as her Republican predecessor Donald Trump. Haley would become the nation's first female president, as well as it's second person of color president, second to former President Barack Obama.

### Close States

States where the margin has under 1% (all won by Haley)

* Michigan
* Nevada

States where the margin was under 5%

* Pennsylvania (Haley)
* Wisconsin (Haley) (tipping-point state)
* New Hampshire (Harris)
* Arizona (Haley)
* Minnesota (Harris)
* Georgia (Haley)
* Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District (Haley)
* Maine at-large (Harris)
* North Carolina (Haley)
* New Mexico (Harris)

States where the margin was under 10%

* Maine's 2nd Congressional District (Haley)
* Florida (Haley)
* Virginia (Harris)
* Ohio (Haley)
* Iowa (Haley)
* Texas (Haley)
* Colorado (Harris)
* New Jersey (Harris)