Former President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election Tuesday night, following the 2020 White House race against Joe Biden.
Prior to his Mar-a-Lago announcement, Trump filed documents with the Federal Election Commission indicating he is running for president in 2024 and opening a fundraising account.
“I pronounce tonight my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump told supporters.
Trump’s resolution comes as some supporters have called on Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, to seek the Republican nomination in 2024 and Biden has officially announced whether he will seek a momentary term.
Political parties nominate the incumbent president for re-election if the leader is a member of their party. For example, after Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he was nominated smoothly through the Republican Party in 2020. And after Barack Obama won the race for the White House in 2008, he was nominated through the Party. Democrat in the 2012 presidential election.
But did a political party appoint a user because she is now president or because she was president?Here’s what you want to know.
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No, political parties have to nominate a candidate if the candidate has been president.
“It’s surely mandatory,” Matthew Dallek, a historian and professor of political control at George Washington University, told USA TODAY.
“Presidents have no right. Even if they have a massive internal trajectory, they have no right to be their party’s candidates,” Dallek said. He has an inside track, but surely he has no guarantee that he will be the nominee. “
Trump may only face challenges, adding DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence in the 2024 White House race. If Trump were to win the general election, he wouldn’t be the only president to leave the White House and return. Grover Cleveland is the 22nd and 24th President of the United States.
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No, a political party also doesn’t have to have a candidate for a presidential election because it’s the existing president. This means that if Biden announces an official candidacy for re-election, the Democratic Party does not have to nominate him.
Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the National Museum of American History, said there is “no mandate” requiring political parties to name sitting presidents, but leaders already have popularity from calls and get media policies that unknown applicants will have to look for.
“Non-incumbent candidates often have to find tactics to make themselves known so that incumbents don’t have to work as hard,” he said.
He added that incumbents are re-elected because “usually that user was his party’s candidate in the first place because he represented things he believes in, things he values. “
Dallek also explained that presidents “are the leader and the ultimate hard user on theArray. “
“They have enormous and massive force to distribute all kinds of things, nominations, approvals, monetary aid for people’s campaigns. So they have a series of tools, formal and informal, that allow not only to re-elect outgoing presidents, but also to scare away presidents. “all the top challengers. “
Sitting presidents cannot forget the nomination procedure when running for re-election.
Prior to general elections in a presidential race, candidates participate in state primaries and caucuses “where, based on the number of votes they get from the electorate, they are assigned a set number of delegates who will vote for them at their party’s convention,” according to the Library of Congress.
But a party state does not organize contests when a sitting president is in the race. For example, Republican parties in several states did not hold races in 2020, but instead opted to automatically endorse Trump.
Biden has said he intends to seek re-election in 2024, though he noted he may not make his final decision until early next year.
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University ballot last month found that between 64% and 26% of the electorate did not need Biden to seek a momentary mandate. run.
The ballot also found that in an imaginable presidential race, Biden outperformed Trump by 46% to 42%.
Contributors: Michael Collins, Maureen Groppe, David Jackson and Susan Page, USA TODAY