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The United States general election will be held on November 5 2024. In early 2024, there are Democratic and Republican presidential nominating contests that will elect delegates to the parties’ nominating conventions. These conventions, in July (for Republicans) and August (Democrats) officially select their parties’ presidential candidates.

Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie engage tonight. The main Latino-related topics among hot button issues in past editions

After the South Carolina senator asked the Iowa girl to caucus for him, she was confused, he recounted

The “witch” rocketed to fame when he called 99 out of 100 states’ election results in 2008 and 2012. But he has a warning for founders like himself.

Thirteen candidates appeared at the Republican party’s 2023 Lincoln Dinner fundraiser to address donors

No amount of third-party/RFK Jr. shaming can erase the fact that Joe Biden is a weak and unpopular incumbent.

The former US president is well ahead of other candidates — including Ron DeSantis — as the preferred candidate for the Republican primary.

On June 8, former United States president Donald Trump was indicted on federal charges of mishandling classified documents. Despite the indictment, he retains a huge lead in national polling to determine the 2024 Republican presidential candidate.

The United States debt limit is a legislative limit on the overall debt the US government can incur. As the US keeps running budget deficits, the debt keeps increasing. Congress could deal with this permanently by either repealing the debt limit, or increasing it to a very large number.