Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021,serving under President Joe Biden. Harris is the Democratic Party's nominee for president in the 2024 election. She is the first woman,the first African American,and the first Asian American to be vice president,due to her Afro-Jamaican and Indian American descent. She is the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history. From 2017 to 2021,she represented California in the United States Senate. Before that,she was the attorney general of California.
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election,set to be held on Tuesday,November 5,2024. Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose electors to the Electoral College,who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
The 2024 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention in which delegates of the United States Democratic Party voted on their party platform and ceremonially reported their vote to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for president and her chosen running mate Governor Tim Walz for vice president in the 2024 presidential election. It was held from August 19 to 22,2024,at the United Center in Chicago,Illinois. Delegates virtually nominated Harris and Walz the first week of August. Harris is the first Black woman and first South Asian woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party in the United States,and the first Democratic presidential nominee from the Western United States.
This is a timeline of major events leading up to,during,and after the 2024 United States presidential election. This will be the first presidential election to be run with population data from the 2020 census. In addition to the dates mandated by the relevant federal laws such as those in the U.S. Constitution and the Electoral Count Act,several milestones have consistently been observed since the adoption of the conclusions of the 1971 McGovern–Fraser Commission.
From January 23 to June 8,2024,presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select the delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention,to determine the party's nominee for president in the 2024 United States presidential election. The elections took place in all U.S. states,the District of Columbia,five U.S. territories,and Democrats Abroad.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Georgia is scheduled to take place on Tuesday,November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Georgia voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College,following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which it neither gained nor lost a seat. Georgia is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Iowa is scheduled to take place on Tuesday,November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Iowa voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Iowa has six electoral votes in the Electoral College,following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Michigan is scheduled to take place on Tuesday,November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Michigan voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Michigan has 15 electoral votes in the Electoral College,following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state lost a seat. Michigan is considered to be a crucial swing state in 2024.
As part of the Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States,protest vote movements in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries were initiated to target President Joe Biden's and Vice President Kamala Harris's reelection campaigns. After a notable "uncommitted" vote in the US state of Michigan,activists sought to replicate the protest in other US states. While some activists under Abandon Biden/Abandon Harris argued against supporting the Democratic ticket entirely during the 2024 general presidential election,others in uncommitted movements led by the Uncommitted National Movement urged to use uncommitted votes during the presidential primary to pressure the Biden administration to change policies before the presidential election. Both groups overlap and supported each other's goals,to the point of being considered "twin" movements. On July 21,2024,Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Harris as his replacement.
Kamala Harris,the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States,announced her 2024 campaign for president on July 21,2024,after incumbent President Joe Biden withdrew his bid for reelection and endorsed her earlier the same day. Harris became the official nominee of the Democratic Party on August 5 following a virtual roll call vote;she selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate the following day. Harris is the first nominee who did not participate in the primaries since Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
Vice President Kamala Harris,the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 2024,considered several prominent individuals before selecting Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate on August 6. Harris and Walz were certified as the official nominees that evening by Democratic National Committee secretary Jason Rae. Walz is the first sitting governor selected as the Democratic vice presidential nominee since Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska in 1924 and if elected,would be the third vice president from Minnesota after Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale. Walz is also the first sitting governor to appear on the Democratic ticket since Bill Clinton in 1992.
The Uncommitted National Movement is a protest campaign aimed mainly to pressure Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to achieve a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war and impose an arms embargo on Israel. The group received some support in the 2024 Democratic presidential primaries.
A ceremonial roll call vote was held on August 20,2024,during the second night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago,Illinois. Kamala Harris was ceremonially nominated for president because she was formally nominated in a virtual vote held weeks before the convention.
Christian Figueroa is an American political activist and student organizer from California. He is a current undergraduate student at Stanford University. Figueroa was the former national press secretary of the College Democrats of America and was one of the youngest national delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention. He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris following the withdrawal of Democratic candidate President Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election.
