Washington – The unprecedented presidential campaign 2024 could be an understatement.
A number of shocking events, this presidential race as Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump Sprint to the finish line in the hope of securing the highest post of the nation, has shaken up to the finish line.
Harris was not even in the course of less than four months ago.
And Trump, whose offer returned to the White House after a conviction in New York, already survived two obvious attempts at assassination.
The democratic and republican presidential candidates conclude a Neck-and-neck competition, which can be decided by only one handful of voters in seven flying states.
On election day in the United States there is an insight into the heights – and depths – of the historical presidential campaign 2024:
A Trump-Bidenrkskampf
Trump and President Joe Biden, the then democratic presidential candidate, attracted several challengers while competing for the nominations of their respective parties.
Trump certainly had a more competitive pool of primary challengers.
With the former president with four separate law enforcement measures and the memory of January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol Fresh in the voters, a field with the former UN Ambassador and the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron Desantis The former Vice President Mike Pence, the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Senator Tim Scott in South Carolina, former governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, the governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, and the former governor of Arkansas, ASA Hutchinson, sought the nomineed Republicans.
Biden’s most solemn challenger appeared at the beginning of the primaries US representative Dean Phillipswho was little known in front of his district of Minnesota. But the incumbent ultimately lost more votes on Democrats who had chosen “non-matching” instead of supporting bidies because of his treatment of the Israel-Hamas War.
After winning the victories of the Super Tuesday in March, both Trump and Biden secured the number of delegates necessary to win the nominations of their parties.
Third-party hope have also tried to achieve a name for the 2024 presidential campaign, perhaps especially Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-a environmental and anti-vaccine activist.
Kennedy spanned his independent presidential campaign in August and supported Trump.
In the meantime the independent presidential candidate Cornel West and the Green Party candidate Jill Stein both are competing around the White House under the offered by third -party providers.
And in the middle of the persistent war in Gaza, Pro-Palestinian organizers have Exert pressure on the bids administration and Harrisas she competes for the oval office through the non -granted national movement.
The movement has seen a vast part of organizers who protested Biden’s politics against the war of the Israel-Hamas and called for an arms embargo and an armistice.
Biden bays out, Harris climbs
After the primary elections in both parties, Biden and Trump were set to a retirement in 2020 and planned a general election debate for the end of June.
Bidens catastrophic Performancein which he spoke quietly and sometimes seemed to lose his train of thought, prompted an outcry from democratic legislators who urged him to fall his white house.
Less than a month later in fighting a Covid 19 infection at home, bidges bend out of the race And passed the torch to Harris.
The VEEP then started an unprecedented and accelerated presidential campaign. If she were chosen, she would be the first president, the first president of the South Asian descent and the second black president.
In the summer months, the formal nominations of Trump and Harris’ respective running colleagues – Ohio GOP sen. Jd vance and Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz – because both parties have built their supporters at their national congresses.
Attent attempts against Trump
Trump survived an assassination attempt In July during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where officials said that a prospective assassin killed a rally clerks, injured two more and shot the former president’s ear.
The attack triggered a number of federal probes and A Conscious congress -task force Investigation.
Us Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, whose agency was before the attack was checked. resigned Only days later.
In September the authorities reacted A second obvious attempt at assassination Against Trump, while he asked the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, and more questions about the security of the former president.
Trump’s legal fights are the focus of the campaign at the center of the campaign
Against the background of his presidential offer, Trump was scattered in several legal battles and had to reconcile court appearances with his campaign schedule.
Trump was found guilty 34 crimes that are counterfeit for the falsification of business documents In May in a New York court. He is the first former US president to be convicted of crimes.
He was also charged in a federal election mixture and in a election interference in Georgia.
A Case of the Federation of Classified Documents Fall At least for the time being, it was ejected against him.
Be Case of the federal election interference was taken in a break for a few months at the beginning of this year His claim to presidential immunity played in court.
This argument set off US Supreme CourtWhat realized that the presidents have given full immunity against criminal charges for official “core constitutional files”, even though they have no immunity for unofficial actions.
A win of the White House for Trump could have a robust influence on how the rest of his legal disputes take place in court – and whether they continue.
Last route of the 2024 presidential campaign
Harris and Trump Tested in a presidential debate In September they act barbs in September while collapsing their own political proposals.
Since the surveys of Trump and Harris have repeatedly portrayed in a great race in which neither of them have a measurable advantage, the two of their campaigns in the Swing states have Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin output.
The Trump campaign Receive the back load For the comedian Tony Hintchcliffe’s racist and vulgar comments during a rally on October overdue in Madison Square Garden in New York City, including Puerto Rico as the “floating island of garbage”.
And in which campaign her “locking argument” Harris described asked the voters Last week to reject Trump’s “Chaos and Division”. She spoke to more than 75,000 spectatorsAccording to campaign estimates.
She gave her speech in the ellipse in Washington, DC – the place where Trump held a rally on January 6, 2021 before his followers attacked the US capitol.
When the country reaches the end of a strenuous and winding presidential campaign, voters will soon find out whether Harris or Trump will be the next leader in the free world.
Last updated 6:31 a.m., November 5, 2024
