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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. [a] The Republican Party's ticket—Donald Trump, who was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD Vance, the junior U.S. senator from Ohio—defeated the Democratic Party's ticket—Kamala Harris, the incumbent vice president, and Tim Walz, the 41st governor of Minnesota.
A debate between incumbent Democratic US President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump was held on June 27, 2024, hosted by CNN.It was the first debate of that year's presidential election.
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. [31] The Biden campaign agreed to a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News to take place on either July 23 or August 13. [183]
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.
An August poll by the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Muslim-Americans showed that support for Harris (29.4%) was nearly tied with Green Party nominee Jill Stein (29.1%). Harris still received nearly four times the support as Biden had in a prior poll (7.3%). [296]
Several incidents of political violence occurred before, during, and after the 2024 United States presidential election.The years surrounding the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections have seen political violence as the United States, due to the rise rise of extremist groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Antifa, has entered an era of political violence unseen since the Civil Rights Era or ...
[297] [298] [299] [m] Biden is the sixth vice president to become president without succeeding to the office on the death or resignation of a previous president. [300] 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 ...