The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet

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The 2024 presidential election was already like none in living memory: a matchup between the sitting president and a former president.

Then it got even more historically unusual. After months of the country expecting, and dreading, a rematch of the 2020 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, just weeks before his formal nomination and barely three months before the general election.