Here is a timeline of events related to the Nov 5 election between now and Inauguration Day in January 2025
Published : 17 Jun 2024, 11:00 PM
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Republican former President Donald Trump will face each other in the 2024 presidential election in what is expected to be a divisive and closely fought contest.
Here is a timeline of events related to the Nov 5 election between now and Inauguration Day in January 2025.
2024
June 27: CNN will hold the first 2024 debate between Biden and Trump in Atlanta, Georgia, moderated by anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and with no audience present. The agreement between the campaigns breaks the decades-old tradition of three fall debates. September and October dates had already been set by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Trump has accepted a vice presidential debate to be held by Fox News. Fox wrote to both campaigns suggesting July 23, Aug. 13 or other dates following the party conventions. Trump's campaign has not said whether his running mate would debate Harris on CBS nor has the Biden campaign said if Harris would debate on Fox.
Biden had been due to be officially nominated at the Democratic National Convention later in August.
2025
Mike Pence, for refusing to try to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's win. On that day, the US Capitol was attacked by rioters, and some people chanted, "hang Mike Pence" as they tried to stop the count. Both chambers of Congress later resumed their work and certified Biden's win.
Congress has since passed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, which requires approval of one-fifth of the House and Senate to consider a challenge to a state's results – a much higher bar than existed before, when any single lawmaker from each chamber could trigger a challenge.