USA: According to the survey, Trump is ahead of Biden in 5 of the 6 most electorally decisive states
In 2024, United States voters will elect a president. The election process begins in January, when the Republican Party's first candidate selection processes take place.
There are two main parties in the USA:
- Democratic Party, more progressive. Current President Joe Biden is now the main figure and the favorite to run this year.
- Republican PartyMore conservative is former President Donald Trump's party, which is ahead in the polls but faces legal problems that could affect his eligibility to vote.
Both parties will have procedures for selecting their candidates. A Republican selection process will take place in the state of Iowa on January 15th.
This year, in addition to the Democratic and Republican Party candidates, there is a third candidate who could have an impact on the final result: Robert F. Kennedy, who will be an independent (in the US you can run for one). political office without party affiliation).
The Democratic Party's primary candidates are as follows:
- Joe Biden is the current President of the USA. He is already the oldest person to hold this position. He currently has poor popularity ratings, but there is a part of the Democratic Party that believes he is the only one who can defeat Donald Trump.
- Marianne Williamson is the author of selfhelp books. This is the second time she has run for office. Their campaign has the motto “Justice and Love”.
- Dean Phillips is a Minnesota state representative.
In the Republican Party, former President Donald Trump is the favorite to face legal trouble throughout the year. Check out the list of key preliminary candidates:
- Donald Trump. The former US president is a defendant in four different criminal cases, but Republicans still like him 61% of the party's voters are expected to vote for Trump.
- Nikki Haley is the former governor of South Carolina and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He is considered a conservative and has a 12% support rate among Republicans.
- Ron DeSantis is the current governor of the state of Florida. DeSantis positions himself to the right of Trump on social issues but has struggled to gain traction.
- Vivek Ramaswamy is a former biotechnology investor and manager. He founded a company to pressure companies to abandon their environmental, social and corporate governance initiatives.
- Chris Christie was an adviser to Trump's 2020 White House campaign but became an opponent of the former president.
- Asa Hutchinson is a former governor of the state of Arkansas.
Below you will find the most important election dates in the USA.
10th day: Republican Party candidates are expected to take part in a debate on CNN in the state of Iowa. Only politicians with at least 10% intention to vote are invited.
Day 15: Members of the Republican Party in the state of Iowa will choose who will be the party's nominee. The selection process is called a caucus. These are closed events that are organized in electoral districts. The participants are divided into groups according to the candidate they support. This distribution determines how many electoral representatives each preliminary candidate receives (in the USA, elections are indirect, the representatives, socalled delegates, form an electoral college. This college decides who the winner is. Therefore, the preliminary candidate decides who has won the most delegates be a winner).
Democratic Party members will only select their candidate by mail, and this is scheduled to happen on March 5th.
Day 18: ABC News and WMURTV will organize a debate between Republican Party candidates in the state of New Hampshire. There are criteria for participating in this meeting: These are the top three finishers in the Iowa caucus and the preliminary candidates who have more than 10% of their voting intentions.
Day 21: The American broadcaster CNN will host another debate between Republican politicians.
Day 23: New Hampshire State Previews. They simplified the choice of candidate: you vote in the election.
Day 31: Candidates must report how much money they have raised and spent.
Day 3: Democratic Party primaries in the state of South Carolina.
6: Democratic Party primaries in the state of Nevada.
Day 8: Republican Party Nevada Caucus.
Day 24: South Carolina Republican Party primary.
Day 27: The state of Michigan votes for both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but only some of the Republican delegates are elected this way, the others are elected in a caucus in March.
Day 5: Great Tuesday. This is the day with the most primaries in the entire electoral process and is generally the day that determines who the candidates are for each party. There will be a selection process in the following federal states:
- Alabama,
- Alaska (Republican Party only),
- Arkansas,
- California,
- Colorado,
- Maine,
- Massachusetts,
- Minnesota,
- North Carolina,
- Oklahoma,
- Tennessee,
- Texas,
- Vermont,
- Virginia and
- Utah.
Day 12: Electoral procedures in the states
- Hawaii (Republican Party only)
- Georgia,
- Mississippi and
- Washington.
19th March: Selection processes in the following countries:
- Arizona,
- Florida,
- Illinois,
- Kansas and
- Ohio.
June 4th: Last day of decisions within the parties.
Days 15 to 18: National Convention of the Republican Party in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The candidate will be decided at this event, but the Electoral College delegates will officially vote at this time.
Days 19 to 22: National Democratic Party Convention in the city of Chicago.
Day 16: Day of the first debate between the Democratic Party and Republican Party candidates.
Day 25: Running candidates will debate.
day 1: Second presidential debate.
Day 9: Third and final debate.
The investigation is scheduled to take place during November.
6th: The current vice president, Kamala Harris, presides over the counting of Electoral College votes in a session of Congress and officially announces the winner.
Day 20: Inauguration of the winning candidate.