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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.
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.
[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.
Joe Biden's tenure as the 46th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2021. [1] [2] Biden, a member of the Democratic Party who previously served as vice president for two terms under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, took office after his victory in the 2020 presidential election over the incumbent president, Donald Trump of the Republican Party.
Former Vice President Joe Biden had been leading in most national polls, but President Donald Trump believed that the polls would underestimate him again. Although the polls had underestimated Trump's strength nationally and in Ohio, Florida, and Iowa, Biden won back the blue Midwestern states and made inroads in the Sun Belt to win the election.
President Joe Biden speaks about his "middle-out, bottom-up economic playbook" at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2024.
Harris delivering her acceptance speech on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. The 2024 Democratic National Convention was held from August 19 to 22, 2024, at the United Center in Chicago. [6] It was the first instance of a major party's presidential nominating convention held in Illinois since 1996. [7]
[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 ...