Sanders stöttar Biden – utesluter egen kampanj
Den tidigare presidentkandidaten Bernie Sanders, 81, säger att han inte kommer att kandidera i valet 2024 utan sluter upp bakom Joe Bidens kandidatur, skriver AP.
– Det sista som det här landet behöver är en Donald Trump eller någon annan högerdemagog som försöker underminera amerikansk demokrati, säger han till nyhetsbyrån.
Samtidigt avråder han andra högprofilerade demokrater från att ta strid mot Biden. Nyhetsbyrån tolkar beslutet som att vänsterfalangen av det demokratiska partiet kommer att enas bakom den sittande presidenten även om den inte ser honom som en särskilt spännande kandidat.
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Valet i USA 2024
Wikipedia (en)
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 5, 2024. It will be the first presidential election after electoral votes were redistributed during the 2020 census reapportionment cycle. Incumbent President Joe Biden formally announced he would seek re-election to a second term on April 25, 2023. Former president Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president for a second, nonconsecutive term on November 15, 2022. In the United States, general elections follow caucuses and primary elections held by the major parties to determine their nominees. The winner of the 2024 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
Abortion access, LGBT topics such as same-sex marriage the state of the economy, and democratic backsliding are expected to be leading campaign issues. This is the first presidential election to be held after the January 6 United States Capitol attack and the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Since the decision was announced, Republican-controlled states have predominately passed near-total bans on abortion in its aftermath, with the party generally supporting a national ban on mifepristone, enforcement of the Comstock laws, and restrictions on interstate travel for abortions. By April 2023, abortion was "largely illegal" throughout much of the United States.
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