Zell Bryan Miller was an American politician who served as a United States senator representing Georgia from 2000 to 2005 and as the 79th governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who has been the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female U.S. vice president,making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history. She is also the first African American and the first Asian American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election,becoming the second woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. From 2017 to 2021,she represented California in the U.S. Senate,and was Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017. From 2004 to 2011,she served as District Attorney of San Francisco.
David Alfred Perdue Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator for Georgia from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,Perdue was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2022.
Lindy Li is an American political commentator and campaign advisor who served as the Women's co-chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee. She served on the Asian American outreach team for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign. Once a vocal defender of the Biden administration,Li became a critic of the Democratic Party after the 2024 United States presidential election.
The 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3,2020,and on January 5,2021,to elect the Class II member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue in the runoff election. The general election was held concurrently with the 2020 presidential election,as well as with other elections to the Senate,elections to the U.S. House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
A special election to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 6th congressional district was held on April 18,2017,with a runoff held two months later on June 20. Republican Karen Handel narrowly defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the runoff vote,51.8% to 48.2%. Handel succeeded Tom Price,who resigned from the seat following his confirmation as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. The runoff election was necessary when no individual candidate earned the majority of votes in the election on April 18. Ossoff received 48.1% of the vote in the first round,followed by Handel with 19.8%.
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,Ossoff was previously a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist.
The 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia was held on November 3,2020,and on January 5,2021,to elect the Class III member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated appointed incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler. The first round of the election was held on November 3,2020;however,no candidate received a majority of the vote,so the top two candidates—Warnock and Loeffler—advanced to a runoff on January 5,2021,which Warnock won narrowly.
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American Baptist pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.
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 Indian 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,which was 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 except Florida and Delaware,in the District of Columbia,in five U.S. territories,and as organized by Democrats Abroad.
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. The two faced off against the Republican ticket of former President Donald Trump and U.S. Senator from Ohio JD Vance. Harris is the first nominee who did not participate in the primaries since Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1968. It was also the shortest general election presidential campaign in history,lasting only 107 days.
The Uncommitted National Movement was 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.
