2024 US Presidential Election (TheMaster197)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5th, 2024. The Democratic ticket of President Bernie Senators and Vice President Elizabeth Warren defeated the Republican ticket of Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Rick Scott, marking the Bernie Sanders the oldest candidate to win a presidential election in US history at the age of 83. Sanders began his second term in office on January 20, 2025.

Cruz emerged as his party's nominee amidst a wide field of Republican primary candidates, after a highly contested primary battle between him and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. Sanders' populist campaign ran on successfully decreasing unemployment, helping rebuild the nations infrastructure, college tuition assistance programs, and successful reforms leading to a more "inclusive capitalism". This contrasted heavily with Cruz's campaign which criticized the "excessive socialism, unnecessary burdensome legislation of the Sanders agenda and it's raging deficits". However, this failed to win over much needed independent voters because the economy was growing at a fairly healthy 2.3%, unemployment was down to 4.9% in October, 2024 with 9.4-million jobs being created since April, 2021. With very few controversies within the administration other than accusations of spying on civilians which had been going on since the George W. Bush administration, the U.S. embassy bombing in Yemen in 2023, and the withdrawl of troops from Afghanistan going slower than people liked there were no other liabilities on the Sanders' campaign. In the late winter and early spring of 2024 Sanders looked somewhat vulnerable with his approval rating in the upper-40s however they slowly started to rise from 46% in late-February to 58% in late-September as the campaigned carried on.