2024 Presidential Election (Another Wither)

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2024 United States Presidential Election
November 5, 2024
Nominee		Joe Biden	Ron DeSantis
Party		Democratic	Republican
Home state		Delaware	Florida
Running mate		Kamala Harris	Kristi Noem
Electoral vote		319	219
States carried		26 + DC + ME-01 + NE-02	24 + ME-02

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.

Background

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.

Nominations

Democratic Party

2024 Democratic Party ticket File:Democratic Disc Symbol.png
Joe Biden	Kamala Harris
for President	for Vice President
President of the United States (2021-2029)	Vice President of the United States (2021-2029)

Candidates

U.S. Representative
Nina Turner
from Ohio

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Former State Senator
Richard Ojeda
from West Virginia

Republican Party

2024 Republican Party ticket File:Republican Symbol Disc.png
Ron DeSantis	Kristi Noem
for President	for Vice President
Governor of Florida (2019-2027)	Governor of South Dakota (2019-2027)
TBA

Candidates

U.S. Senator
Ted Cruz
from Texas

Former U.N. Ambassador
Nikki Haley
from South Carolina

Former Vice President
Mike Pence
from Indiana

U.S. Senator
Marco Rubio
from Florida

U.S. Senator
Rick Scot
from Florida

Former Governor
Larry Hogan
of Maryland

U.S. Senator
Tom Cotton
from Arkansas

Businessman
Mike Lindell
from Minnesota

Commentator
Dan Bongino
from Florida

Libertarian Party

2024 Libertarian Party ticket File:Libertarian Disc Symbol.png
Justin Amash	Spike Cohen
for President	for Vice President
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U.S. Representative from Michigan (2011-2021)	Podcaster and businessman
TBA

Green Party

Green Party ticket, 2024 File:Green Disc Symbol.png
Jesse Ventura	Dario Hunter
for President	for Vice President
	File:Dario Hunter (Headshot).jpg
Governor of Minnesota (1999-2003)	Member of the Youngstown Board of Education (2016-2020)
TBA

Electoral results

United States Presidential Election, 2024
Party		Candidate	Home state	Running mate	Electoral vote
	Democratic	Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.	Delaware	Kamala Devi Harris	319
	Republican	Ronald Dion DeSantis	Florida	Kristi Lynn Noem	219
	Libertarian	Justin Amash	Michigan	Jeremy Cohen	0
	Green	Jesse Ventura	Minnesota	Dario David Hunter	0