Deja vote: Biden and Trump offer a familiar choice
Posted Apr. 18, 2024
Entertainment Editor
As Americans vote November 5th, they will find themselves in a familiar spot as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump again are on the ballot. This upcoming election marks the first rematch in nearly seven decades with the last being Eisenhower against Stevenson.
The 2024 presidential election is right around the corner with three democratic party standing candidates and two republican party standing candidates. Three candidates remain representing the independent party. Candidates undergo the competitive rivalry against Joe Biden and Donald Trump once again as they both dominate their selective parties.
President Biden faces challenges due to the recent rise of inflation, the controversial pass of the Willow Project, and upheaval in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and the Middle East. Supporters of President Trump may seem hesitant to check his name on the ballot due to his ongoing legal issues and alleged involvement in overturning election results.
The campaign season unfolds before a backdrop of political controversy. After states challenged to take Trump off the ballot, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump must remain on the primary voting ballots, clarifying that states have no power to exclude candidates from the ballot running for federal office, pointing back to the 14th amendment.
Section three from the 14th amendment states that no person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. States that challenged his removal from the ballot were California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, FLorida, Massachusets, New Hampshire, and Maine. Trump did end up being disqualified from the primary ballots in Colorado, Illinois, and Maine but was later added after the Supreme Court ruling.
“We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency," the court said in its statement.