section_path: 2024 election
section_name: 2024 election
paragraph_text: 2024 election
  
  Trump, who previously served as 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and lost his reelection bid to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, announced his candidacy for the nomination of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election on November 15, 2022. In March 2024, Trump secured the Republican nomination. Trump selected Senator JD Vance of Ohio, a former critic of his, as his running mate, and the two were officially nominated at the 2024 Republican National Convention. On July 13, Trump was the victim of an attempted assassination during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
  
  Early on November 6, 2024, the day after the election, Trump was projected to have secured the presidency. Trump won the presidential election with 312 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris received 226. Trump, upon taking office, was the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in 1893, the oldest individual to assume the presidency, and the first convicted felon to serve the presidency following his conviction in May 2024. Vance, as the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history, became the first Millennial vice president. In the concurrent congressional elections, Republicans retained a reduced majority in the House of Representatives and took control of the Senate.