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The U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet
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The presidential election was already like none in living memory: a matchup between the sitting president and a former president.
Then it got even more historically unusual.
Facts on presidential candidates
After months of the country expecting, and dreading, a rematch of the election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, just weeks before his formal nomination and barely three months before the general election.
Not since has an eligible incumbent dropped out of the race and been replaced on the ticket.
In his stead, Vice President Kamala Harris announced her candidacy (with his endorsement) and rapidly consolidated Democratic Party support.
Her entry has quickly reset the race and put her in the lead—though, in a sign of how calcified American politics are, it has not drastically shifted the fundamentals.
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