2024 Elections
The latest coverage of the 2024 presidential, House and Senate elections.
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Biden’s big bet to take on coal power
Courts, technology questions and Democrats' headwinds in 2024 could hamper the proposal to slash power plants' carbon pollution.
President Joe Biden’s newest bid to cut the nation’s climate pollution relies on a series of big bets.
The upcoming rule from the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to depend on rarely used technology for capturing power plants’ greenhouse gas pollution. It will have to survive the conservative Supreme Court that hobbled the EPA’s regulatory powers just 10 months ago. And it could make life harder for Democratic senators facing reelection in states like West Virginia, Montana and Ohio, which have large workforces that depend on fossil fuels.
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Top Dem super PAC starts Biden ad blitz, pledges $75 million campaign effort
Priorities USA wasted little time jumping into the fray.
A top Democratic super PAC will launch a six-figure digital advertising blitz in six battleground states on Wednesday, a day after President Joe Biden kicked off his 2024 reelection campaign.
Priorities USA, according to plans first shared with POLITICO, will also announce its overall investment target of $75 million for the 2024 presidential cycle — $5 million more than its 2020 target. The group will use the money to reach voters in key battleground states including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Did Biden keep his campaign promises from 2020? Here’s our report card.
Whether voters grant the president a second term could depend on how successful they think he was on key pledges.
President Joe Biden is asking for four more years in office “to finish the job.”
But whether voters grant him that wish in 2024 will depend heavily on how well they think he did in keeping all his promises from 2020.
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Biden v. Trump: A race for the White House with actuarial tables in the background
A second win by either would lead to an octogenarian in the White House.
Joe Biden’s formal entrance into the presidential campaign this week will put to test the question of whether or not this is a country for old men.
The president, at 80 years old, is already the oldest president in United States history. And his decision to seek another term in office sets up a possible general election rematch with Donald Trump, who is set to turn 77 in two months.
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Florida GOP lawmakers ready move allowing DeSantis to run for president without resigning
With time running out on this year’s annual session, Senate Republicans will add the provision to a sweeping elections bill.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature will clear the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024 by changing state law to make it clear he would not have to resign his current position if he became the GOP nominee.
With time running out on this year’s annual session, Senate Republicans will add the provision to a sweeping elections bill that will go before the full Senate on Wednesday. The elections bill is a top priority for DeSantis and Republicans and is expected to go to the governor’s desk between now and May 5.
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Biden’s campaign launch is immediately overshadowed by other events — and his team loves it
The president wants, to a degree, to be the political background noise.
“Also this morning…”
That was CNN’s lead-in to its script Tuesday morning about President Joe Biden officially launching his reelection campaign with a video. The oldest president in American history seeking another four years is, under all objective definitions of the term, major news. And yet, in the swirl of other sensational stories dominating the headlines, it was not always the lead.
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Nikki Haley promised to address abortion 'directly and openly.’ Then she didn't.
The conversation is not getting any easier for the GOP presidential contenders.
Nikki Haley’s campaign had billed her Tuesday address on abortion as a “major policy speech” that would make clear her position on an issue that has tripped up many of her Republican opponents.
But within moments of her stepping up to the lectern, it was evident that any such clarity would prove elusive: “I won't address every single question or angle,” Haley said in her opening sentences.
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White House press secretary clarifies answer on whether Biden would serve full 8 years
The follow-up came after Karine Jean-Pierre earlier told a POLITICO reporter that serving a full two terms if reelected was “something for him to decide.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday moved quickly to clean up her answer on whether President Joe Biden would serve all eight years if he were reelected in 2024.
“As you know, we take following the law seriously. So I wanted to be sure that I didn’t go into 2024 more than is appropriate under the law,” Jean-Pierre said in a tweet following Tuesday’s press briefing. “But I can confirm that if re-elected, @POTUS would serve all 8 years.”
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Joe Biden's 2024 enthusiasm gap
The reality is many activists — natural surrogates to bolster Biden's message — are growing weary.
The nation’s oldest serving president is seeking a reelection bid that will be a grueling, 19-month test of whether he can convince Americans he deserves to hold the job well into his 80s.
Joe Biden kicked things off today with a three-minute video that featured clips from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building juxtaposed against images of peaceful gatherings outside of the Supreme Court protesting the fall of Roe v. Wade.
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5 things to know about Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez
Julie Chávez Rodríguez is currently the highest-ranking Latina in the White House.
Julie Chávez Rodríguez was tapped on Tuesday to become President Joe Biden’s campaign manager for the 2024 election, elevating her current role as the highest-ranking Latina in the White House.
Chávez Rodríguez currently serves as a senior adviser and as director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. While Chávez Rodríguez, 45, has not run a campaign before, she is a veteran of the Obama administration and worked on Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign as deputy campaign manager.
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Torres: Biden's age isn't ideal but 'best hope' to win
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) said Democrats should do more to build the next generation of leaders, with President Joe Biden launching a reelection campaign at age 80.
NEW YORK — Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday faulted Democrats for not doing more to cultivate the “next generation of leadership," adding it wasn’t ideal that President Joe Biden was mounting a reelection bid at age 80.
"He has a powerful record on which to run for reelection," Torres said at a Manhattan event hosted by the Association for a Better New York, a pro-business civic group. "But is it ideal that we have an 80-year-old running for president? No. But he's the best hope we have for beating Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis."
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Biden launches campaign then delivers speech not mentioning it
The president spoke before union workers on Tuesday but kept the remarks on his economic agenda.
Fresh off announcing his reelection bid, a jubilant Joe Biden basked in the glow of it all at one of his favorite political safe spaces: a gathering of union workers.
Speaking Tuesday before a packed room of 3,200 at the North America’s Building Trades Unions Conference, the president praised labor for building the middle class and warned against Republican proposals and brinkmanship over the debt ceiling. He reveled in the room’s applause — including a chant for “four more years” — but declined to do the one thing widely anticipated: overtly make the case for that second term.
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This is who’s running Joe Biden’s campaign
Julie Chávez Rodríguez will be campaign manager.
President Joe Biden announced that he’s running for reelection on Tuesday morning. Here’s the who’s captaining the ship:
Julie Chávez Rodríguez, Campaign Manager
After serving as one of Biden’s senior advisors and White House director of intergovernmental affairs, Chávez Rodríguez will pivot to leading the reelection push. She has never run a campaign before, but she served as the deputy campaign manager on Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ last campaign and is close with the president. -
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Biden dives back in, announces reelection bid
His long-awaited announcement allows him to begin fundraising 18 months out from the November general election.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally launched his campaign for a second term in 2024, asking voters to keep him in office and “finish the job” of a historic American recovery that started after he vanquished Donald Trump in 2020.
Biden’s long-awaited announcement allows him to begin fundraising 18 months out from the November general election. In a video, the president echoed several familiar themes he outlined when he first took charge of the country during the spiraling Covid-19 pandemic and resulting economic turmoil, taking office days after insurrectionists seized the U.S. Capitol.
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Republicans think Biden is an 'easy target' to unite their party
After months of division over abortion, Ukraine and Trump's legal troubles, Biden's announcement might be the reset Republicans need.
President Joe Biden launched a second campaign for the presidency — and Republicans couldn’t be more thrilled about it.
GOP officials aren’t overly pollyannaish about their prospects of winning back the White House, though they think they’re good. But the possibility of being able to simply talk about Biden rather than all their internal party drama has them downright giddy.
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Biden's Running. Which Republican Has the Best Chance of Beating Him?
Dissecting the strengths and weaknesses of the GOP contenders.
As President Joe Biden kicks off his reelection bid, he begins from a position of weakness: The president has been underwater in the polls for close to two years. His approval ratings dropped under 50 percent around the time of the chaotic Afghanistan pullout in August 2021, and never truly recovered.
Only three post-war presidents — Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump — were in a worse polling spot at this point in their reelection campaigns. And two of those three lost.
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Dems relish Trump-Biden rematch
Democrats think a Joe Biden-Donald Trump matchup is looking more likely after Trump's post-indictment surge in the polls. And they feel good about their party's chances.
Democrats see former President Donald Trump's post-indictment political resurgence as alarming for the country ... and great for Joe Biden’s reelection hopes.
Take it from Sen. Debbie Stabenow. The Michigan Democrat had front row seats to the former president’s shocking win in her state in 2016, and then to his loss to Biden four years later.
