2024 United States Presidential Election (The Piker Timeline)

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial presidential election. It was the first presidential election to be run with population data from the 2020 census. held nominally on Tuesday, November 5th, 2024. The Democrats, one of the major parties in U.S. politics, for the first time in history, did not sport a serious nominee for the presidency. The DNC being in shambles from the recent civil war, (2021 - 2022) the Democratic Party collapsed and was officially dissolved in late 2023. The party split into two different parties known as The New Democrats, (a different party) who sided with the secessionist movement, and the Unionists, who sided with the Union. As a result of the split, the Republicans ran unopposed in the 2024 election. As a result, many politicians, knowing that winning the nomination would be certain victory, joined the primaries, leading to the largest primary in U.S. History. Eventually, three front runners in the primaries emerged, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, former New Jersey Governor, Christopher Christie, and Political Activist, Candace Owens.

Influence of the U.S. Civil War.
Due to the recent civil war, many states that seceded during the conflict were partially readmitted into the Union, but lost their eligibility to vote. The state of Alaska and the second district of Maine were sold off to Canada to pay for the war, which became an exceedingly costly conflict. The states of Michigan and Rhode Island were readmitted into the Union by the Trump administration (2016 - 2024) due to the fact that the people did not support the secessionist movement within said states and the Governors' acts were unpopular. Many criticize this move by the President as corrupt, stating that he was only readmitting states that voted for him. However, this remains unproven as the states of California, Washington, New York and New Jersey had also voted for him yet they were not readmitted.

Primaries and Candidates
As a result of the 2021 Democratic "Civil War", which was a split among the Democratic Party which eventually lead to the party's collapse, two new smaller parties, the Unionists, those who supported the Union in the 2021 Civil War, and the New Democrats, those who supported the rebel forces. Due to this split, the two new parties were not large enough to garner any chance in winning the election as their ideals had not be established yet, and as a result, victory was assured for the Republicans. Almost every Republican saw this and thus, the 2024 Republican Primaries were the second largest primary in U.S. Election History, with 25 total candidates.