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The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015 .
U.S. Representative Dean Phillips files paperwork to run against President Biden for the Democratic nomination. [168] October 27: Dean Phillips launches his presidential campaign in Concord, New Hampshire. [169] October 27–29: The Republican Jewish Coalition holds its Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas. [170]
6:00 PM: Polls close in parts of Kentucky and Indiana located in the Eastern Time Zone. [2] [3]7:00 PM: Polls close in: [3] Parts of Florida located in the Eastern Time Zone. [2]
Obama won the election, gaining a seat previously represented by Republican Peter Fitzgerald. In 2008, Obama entered the Democratic primaries for the U.S. presidential election. Numerous candidates entered initially, but over time the field narrowed down to Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton from New York. The contest was highly competitive ...
As of 2024, this election is the last time that Indiana or North Carolina voted Democratic, and is also the most recent election where one of the nominees has since died. Until 2024 this was also the most recent election in which any of the major presidential nominees had any military experience. [191]
Watch Michelle Obama’s powerful speech on Kamala Harris and why Election 2024 is so critical ... Harris continues campaigning against Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President ...
The Gannett group announced in October 2024 that its publications would not publish presidential endorsements in the upcoming election, allowing the outlets to endorse candidates at the state and local levels at their own discretion. [437] That includes the USA Today, [100] The Des Moines Register [438] and the Detroit Free Press. [439]
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. [3] 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 governor of Minnesota.