Washington- Regardless of who wins the 2024 election, it is an election made by the current president joe bidenAnd the former president Donald TrumpAnd the Democratic candidate Kamala HarrisExceptional, in a way that is difficult to replicate.
The outcome of these elections will be:
- Either Vice President Harris wins, becoming the first woman to hold the position of President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the largest and most powerful army in the world.
- Or Trump will win and become the second president in history to hold office for two non-consecutive terms after former President Grover Cleveland. Trump will also be the first president in history to win after being criminally convicted of committing numerous crimes at the federal and state levels.
These elections are distinguished from the historical elections that preceded them, as they witnessed the forced withdrawal of a current president in the White House from seeking a second term only 3 months before the race, despite his victory in the primary elections and receiving the support of the Democratic Party institutions and its general conference.
Traditionally, it is said every 4 years that the United States witnesses historic elections, and that they are the most important in the lives of citizens, but many historians consider these elections to be the most important since 1860 when the election was held. Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, and then a civil war broke out that lasted for years and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Many commentators attribute the historicity of this election to Biden’s withdrawal, Harris’ background, and the nature and conviction of Trump.
Biden withdraws
In April 2023, President Joe Biden announced the launch of his election campaign for a second term, easily won the state primaries, and officially won his party’s support at the general conference held in Chicago last August.
But the consequences of the early presidential debate in which Biden faced his opponent Trump in late June, which witnessed a disastrous performance, revealed his health, mental and mental fragility due to his advanced age.
For months he tried Democratic Party Covering up Biden’s mental state and emphasizing his fitness to rule for an additional 4 years, yet Biden let everyone down as his condition continued to deteriorate and he made lapses during his talks and meetings.
After Biden ran in American politics for more than half a century, he withdrew from the race in late July after weeks of pressure from his party leaders, immediately supporting his deputy Harris to replace him.
The party’s delegates voted with what seemed like unanimity, and she became an official candidate after the delegates’ online voting process in early August, which was considered a rare and exceptional matter, for the presidential candidates to exchange certain roles in the middle of the electoral race, and 3 months before the general vote.
Harris background
Kamala Harris’s candidacy for the presidency and her reaching the final step in the race so quickly and easily is a historical matter in itself, as this black woman was born to an immigrant mother from the Indian Tamil minority, and a father from… Jamaica Island In the Caribbean, it represents what reflects the demographic changes that have afflicted the United States in recent decades, with which the proportion of white citizens is declining at the expense of immigrants of color.
If Harris wins, she will break the remaining barriers to women’s right to vote since the 1920s, leading to the election of a black woman of Indian-Jamaican descent to the highest and most important position in the American political system. However, it is worth noting that Harris herself did not make her race or gender a focal point of her election campaign.
Because of the strict and undemocratic nature of the Democratic Party, Harris was not exposed to any competition from party leaders who had presidential ambitions, and they chose to wait for the next sessions, especially since they are still young by American standards, such as state governors. caandMichiganandArizonaand Pennsylvania.
A few days ago, Harris was asked about her opinion on the history she might make, and she replied, “I am fully aware of my gender and race, and I know that it will be very important to break many restrictions, but I do not expect anyone to vote for me because of my gender or race. It must be “It’s because I win their votes with a plan to make their lives better.”
But in reality, millions of Americans, and billions of people around the world, are eagerly awaiting whether Harris will be able to overcome the constraints of history, break tradition, and reach the White House.
Trump’s privacy
This represents Trump’s third attempt to enter The white house A historical story in itself, after the success of 2016 and the failure of 2020, which came breaking and overthrowing all the rules of established American political traditions, and succeeded in taking absolute control of the Republican Party, and its supporters did not care about those who challenged them in the primary elections, with the majority of them agreeing that the 2020 elections It was stolen from him and from them.
Since his departure from the White House on January 20, 2021, Trump has faced a stream of criminal charges, one of which resulted in a guilty verdict by a New York State jury on charges of falsifying business records in connection with secret financial payments to an adult film star in the final days of the 2018 campaign. 2016, while Trump says he is innocent and decides to appeal the ruling.
After announcing his candidacy for the 2024 elections, Trump faced primary elections within Republican Party With more than 10 competitors, including his former deputy Mike PenceBut most of them withdrew before the party conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last July.
Two days before his candidacy was officially accepted, Trump survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania after being shot and wounded in the ear, and after a second assassination attempt was foiled outside his private golf resort in Florida StateMillions of his supporters believed that there was “divine providence that protected and blessed their candidate.”
If Trump is able to succeed, he will be the first former president to win a second non-consecutive term, after Grover Cleveland, who ruled for two separate terms, the first between 1885 and 1889 and then 1893-1897, and his supporters will consider that he came by divine will as well.
Thus, regardless of the identity of the winner in the November 5, 2024 elections, an unprecedented new chapter in American history will be written.
