2024 United States presidential election

The 2024 United States presidential election was the 60th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris, unsuccessfully ran for a second term. They were defeated the Women's Equality ticket of businessman and former president of the United States Donald Trump of Florida and equal rights activist Andrew Cuomo of New York.

As the incumbent president, Biden secured the Democratic nomination without serious opposition. The Women's Equality was a result of the GOP wanting to appeal to more women. Donald Trump won the Women's Equality nomination without much opposition. Trump secured his party's nomination in May, defeating former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford.

The campaigns focused heavily on domestic issues, and debate centered largely around sound responses to Democrats being the real sexists.

Trump defeated Biden, winning a majority of both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Trump won 399 electoral votes and 52.2% of the popular vote compared to Biden's 139 electoral votes and 47.1%. Trump was the first president since Grover Cleveland in 1944 to win reelection with to a non-consecutive second term. Biden was the first Democrat to do so since John Kerry to not win the popular vote.