2024 Presidential Election (Another Wither)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. The Democratic ticket of incumbent President Joe Biden and the incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris was re-elected to second terms. They defeated the Republican ticket of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.

Biden had easily won the Democratic nomination, being the incumbent president. Ron DeSantis had narrowly won the Republican nomination in a large field of candidates. Former congressman Justin Amash secured the Libertarian nomination with Spike Cohen, a businessman from Maryland, and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura secured the Green nomination with Dario Hunter, a politician from Ohio.

Procedure
Article Two of the United States Constitution states that for a person to serve as president, the individual must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, be at least 35 years old, and have been a United States resident for at least 14 years. Candidates for the presidency typically seek the nomination of one of the various political parties of the United States. Each party develops a method (such as a primary election) to choose the candidate the party deems best suited to run for the position. The primary elections are usually indirect elections where voters cast ballots for a slate of party delegates pledged to a particular candidate. The party's delegates then officially nominate a candidate to run on the party's behalf. The presidential nominee typically chooses a vice presidential running mate to form that party's ticket, which is then ratified by the delegates at the party's convention. The general election in November is also an indirect election, in which voters cast ballots for a slate of members of the Electoral College; these electors then directly elect the president and vice president. If no candidate receives the minimum 270 electoral votes needed to win the election, the United States House of Representatives will select the president from the three candidates who received the most electoral votes, and the United States Senate will select the vice president from the candidates who received the two highest totals. The presidential election occurred simultaneously alongside elections for the House of Representatives, Senate, and various state and local-level elections.