The 2024 presidential election is now set to be a rematch of 2020. As of early this morning, President Joe Biden and ex-president Donald Trump have clinched the primary ballots to secure their party’s nominations.
Election watchers have confirmed that this is the earliest moment in decades in which both political parties have coalesced around their candidates. With nearly eight months of campaigning, it’s still early in the season. Voters aren’t necessarily focused on the election or the issues. While that is to be expected, what is noticeable is the lack of enthusiasm for either man.
This will be the first presidential rematch in nearly 70 years. Not since 1956 has a presidential election featured the same two candidates as four years previously. In that election, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Adlai E. Stevenson for a second time, just as he had in 1952.
What is also apparent is that Trump supporters, en masse, are downplaying the impact and the violence of the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, and the party includes a significant number of voters who insist that the 2020 election was rigged*.
Both candidates have their supporters– and their detractors, although that doesn’t mean that voters are talking about it just now. “I don’t talk politics right now because I don’t want to lose my friends,” said one man, speaking to an MSNBC reporter in Miami.
*Editor’s note: once again folks, the 2020 election was safe, fair, and valid. Joe Biden was duly elected president. The only shenanigans were from Trump supporters who attempted to overturn the will of the voters. Anyone who claims otherwise is welcome to their opinions, but this does not mean they are a supporter of our democratic processes.
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