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For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.
On November 1, 2024, a voter wearing a "Let's Go Brandon" hat was reportedly struck by a poll worker after a verbal altercation over his hat at an Orangeburg County, South Carolina, polling location. Although it is illegal to wear anything supporting a candidate whose name is on the ballot, wearing a general political message is permitted by ...
By contrast, the Trump stronghold of Oklahoma had the lowest turnout of all at just 53.3 per cent of the population. However, that is an improvement on 2016, when under half of the population ...
These states lost electoral votes for 2024. California still has the most electoral votes at 54 in 2024, despite losing one from the last election cycle. Last election, California had a 67.9% turnout.
The first Republican presidential debate was held on August 23, 2023, and the first primary contest was the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, which was held on January 15, 2024. [63] Trump would win the nomination easily; he was formally nominated at the Republican Convention on July 15, his third consecutive presidential nomination.
Roughly 160 million people will vote in the 2024 presidential election, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which reported record-high turnout in 2020 with about 159 million voters. But the ...
While the Pew Research Center’s validated voter survey from 2020 doesn’t include a breakdown of voters by age and gender, we can get a rough estimate of the gender gap from the 2020 exit polls ...
On July 13, 2024, Trump was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt while holding a campaign rally west of Butler, Pennsylvania. The former president was struck in the right ear while on stage and was surrounded by Secret Service agents until the shooter was killed by members of the Counter Assault Team .