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This was Biden's fourth presidential campaign, and was his first as the incumbent. [36] His first campaign was in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries.While he was initially considered one of the strongest candidates in that race, a scandal broke soon thereafter when news reports uncovered plagiarism by Biden in law school records and in speeches.
A vice presidential debate in July was initially proposed, which would have taken place after the selection of a vice presidential candidate at the 2024 Republican National Convention. [29] The Biden campaign agreed to a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News to take place on either July 23 or August 13. [177]
The 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was held on Thursday, June 27, 2024 on CNN. It was the first presidential debate of that year's United States presidential election. Joe Biden's poor performance led directly to his decision to withdraw from the presidential race one month later.
[47] [48] The uncommitted vote was the largest opposition to the Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign and received higher vote totals than many contenders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, including Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Beto O'Rourke, and Biden's vice president Kamala Harris.
This was the first presidential election under the electoral vote distribution determined by the 2020 census. Presidential electors who would elect the President and Vice President of the United States were chosen; a simple majority (270) of the 538 electoral votes is required to win the election.
The fifth Republican presidential debate was held at Drake University in Des Moines, hosted by CNN. [171] The requirements to attend were: finishing in the top three in local polls in Iowa, and be polling at at least 10% in both national and local polls. [172] The three candidates that qualified were Trump, Haley, and DeSantis.
[313] [314] [315] [m] Biden is the sixth vice president to become president without succeeding to the office on the death or resignation of a previous president. [316] Additionally, Trump's loss marked the third time an elected president lost the popular vote twice, the first being John Quincy Adams in the 1820s and Benjamin Harrison in the ...