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Donald Trump for President 2024 | |
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Campaign | 2024 U.S. presidential election 2024 Republican primaries |
Candidate | Donald Trump 45th President of the United States (2017–2021) JD Vance U.S. Senator from Ohio (2023–2025) |
Affiliation | Republican Party |
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Headquarters | Palm Beach, Florida[1] |
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Receipts | US$216,857,073[7] (July 21, 2024) |
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Theme song | "God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood[12] "Hold On, I'm Comin'" by Sam & Dave[12] "America First" by Merle Haggard[12] "Y.M.C.A." by Village People[12] |
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Donald Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, announced his campaign for the 2024 U.S. presidential election on November 15, 2022. After he won a landslide victory in the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Trump was generally described as being the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.[15][16][17] He was officially nominated on July 15, 2024, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, when he also announced JD Vance, a junior U.S. Senator from Ohio, as the nominee for vice president. The two initially faced off against the presumptive Democratic Party ticket of incumbent President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. However, on July 21, 2024, Biden withdrew from the race, and Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, choosing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
Trump's campaign issues included: implementing anti-immigrant policies and a massive deportation operation against legal[18][19] and illegal immigrants;[20] pursuing an isolationist "America First" foreign policy agenda;[21][22] repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act;[23][24] pursuing a climate change denial and anti-clean energy platform;[25][26][27] terminating the Department of Education;[26] implementing anti-LGBT policies;[28][29][26] and pursuing what has been described as a neomercantilist trade agenda.[30][31] His campaign proposed vastly expanding the authority of the executive branch over the federal government,[32] which would be accomplished through the imposition of a spoils system via Schedule F,[33][34] and directing the U.S. Department of Justice to go after domestic political enemies.[35] It also received significant media attention for its close connections to The Heritage Foundation, which developed Project 2025,[36][35][37] a playbook which was criticized for potentially facilitating Trump's rise to dictatorial power and steering the United States toward autocracy.[37][38] Trump disavowed any connection with Project 2025, labeling some of the proposals as "absolutely ridiculous" and "seriously extreme", but echoed many of its contents at his campaign events.[39][40][41][42]
Throughout his campaign, Trump made numerous false and misleading statements,[43][44] used racist,[45][46] incendiary rhetoric and promoted conspiracy theories such as QAnon.[47][48] He made many personal attacks against his opponent, several of which were viewed as sexual in nature,[49] racist and misogynistic,[46][50][51] and considered a continued breaking of political norms.[49] Beginning as early as Veterans Day in November 2023, Trump increasingly espoused violent and authoritarian rhetoric.[52][53][54][37] He used dehumanizing language against his political enemies,[52][55][56] and his 2024 campaign regularly espoused anti-immigrant nativism[57][58] and anti-transgender[59] fearmongering.[a] Trump's embrace of far-right extremism[60][61] and harsher rhetoric against his political enemies was described by historians and scholars as populist, authoritarian, fascist,[b] and unlike anything a political candidate has ever said in American history.[62][20]
The campaign unfolded as Trump faced the legal consequences of four criminal indictments filed against him in 2023, as well as a civil investigation of the Trump Organization in New York. In May 2024, a jury in New York found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, making him the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. His campaign promoted false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him,[70] coming in the wake of Trump's unprecedented[71][72] attempts to overturn that election[72][73] and its culmination in the January 6 United States Capitol attack,[74][75] described by many as an attempted coup d'état[76][77] or self-coup.[78][79] Trump has publicly embraced[80] the January 6 attack, and has promised to pardon those charged for their involvement in the attack.[81][82][83] Trump also survived two assassination attempts during his campaign, one in July 2024 at a rally in Pennsylvania and a second the following September at his golf course in Florida.[84]
On November 5, 2024, Trump and Vance were elected president and vice president of the United States, winning all seven swing states for a cumulative 312 electoral votes to Harris' 226. Trump is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency and will be the oldest president in American history at the end of his term. He also became the second president to serve a non-consecutive term after Grover Cleveland.[85]
"The Iowa results confirm a compelling consensus that Trump will be the nominee and there is nothing anyone can do about it absent an act of God or the courts," Jowers said.
"Republican voters see him as the inevitable nominee, and they're already falling in line," he added.
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