Democratic presidential nomination, 2024

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The Democratic Party will select its presidential nominee during a virtual roll call held before the in-person 2024 Democratic National Convention, which will take place from August 19-22, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Joe Biden (D) crossed the majority delegate threshold necessary to win the Democratic nomination on March 12, 2024, making him the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Prior to the national convention, individual state caucuses and primaries are held to allocate convention delegates. To read more about the 2024 primary schedule click here. These delegates, along with superdelegates who come from the party leadership, will vote at the virtual roll call to select the nominee.

Ballotpedia has identified the following noteworthy candidates actively seeking the Democratic nomination:


Upcoming dates

See also: Important dates in the 2024 presidential race

This section is updated weekly on Fridays, and provides dates upcoming in the next two weeks.

Estimated delegate allocation

This section displays an overview of estimated Democratic delegate allocation.

Democratic presidential primaries 2024
 
Candidate
Pledged delegates
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Joe Biden 3,664
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Dean Phillips 4
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Jason Palmer 3
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Marianne Williamson 0

Total pledged delegates: 3,671

Notable declared Democratic candidates and exploratory committees

See also: Presidential candidates, 2024

The following noteworthy Democratic candidates have filed to run for president with the Federal Election Commission or announced exploratory committees.


Joe Biden

Marianne Williamson


List of Democratic candidates

  • Joe Biden (D), incumbent president of the United States, announced he would run for re-election on April 25, 2023.[2]
  • Marianne Williamson (D), 2020 presidential candidate and author, announced her candidacy on February 23, 2023.[3] She withdrew from the race on February 7, 2024, and re-entered the race on February 28.[4][5]

Other Democratic candidates

Withdrawn Democratic candidates

  • Dean Phillips (D), a U.S. representative from Minnesota, announced his candidacy on October 26, 2023. He withdrew from the race on March 6, 2024.[8][9]

Democratic candidates on 5 or more ballots

See also: Presidential candidates, 2024

The following candidates have qualified to appear on five or more Democratic primary ballots. Candidates whose names are bolded have qualified to appear on 15 or more ballots:


Campaign finance

See also: Presidential election campaign finance, 2024

During presidential election years, candidates who anticipate that they will raise or spend more than $100,000 must file monthly campaign finance reports. Candidates who anticipate that they will raise and spend less than $100,000 file on a quarterly schedule, as do all presidential candidates during non-presidential election years. Click here to view reporting deadlines in the 2024 presidential election.

The following charts display noteworthy Democratic primary candidates' overall fundraising through the April 2024 monthly campaign finance reports. Note that the chart only displays data for principal campaign committees, not candidate-affiliated PACs or joint fundraising committees. The charts below include campaign finance reports beginning at the point the FEC started classifying the committee as a presidential candidate's principal campaign finance committee and ending after candidates withdrew from the primary.

Democratic National Convention

See also: Democratic National Convention, 2024

The Democratic National Convention will take place in Chicago, Illinois, from August 19-22, 2024.[10]

The national nominating convention is typically the formal ceremony during which the party selects its nominee and adopts a party platform. The delegates are individuals chosen to represent their state or territory at the convention. In 2024, the Democratic National Committee plans to certify its presidential nominee during a virtual roll call held before the in-person convention.[11]

Presidential election competitiveness

Polls

The section below displays polling averages for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination from RealClearPolitics.

Prediction markets

See also: Prediction markets in the 2024 presidential election

What is a prediction market?

Prediction markets allow users to purchase shares relating to the outcome of events using real money. Each event, such as an election, has a number of contracts associated with it, each correlating to a different outcome. For instance, an election contested between four candidates would be represented by eight separate contracts, with each contract correlating to a particular candidate winning or losing the election.

The share price in each individual forecast rises and falls based on market demand. Once the event's outcome is decided, holders of shares that correlate with the correct outcome receive a payout for each share they held.

For example, a user buys 10 shares at 20 cents each in a presidential primary saying Candidate A will win. If Candidate A wins the election, the user earns $10. If the candidate loses, the user earns no money and loses his original $2 investment.

Why do prediction markets matter?

Prediction markets can be used to gain insight into the outcome of elections. Microsoft Research economist David Rothschild argued that they are better suited to the task than polls: "I can create a poll that can mimic everything about a prediction market...except markets have a way of incentivizing you to come back at 2 a.m. and update your answer."[12][13][14]

PredictIt


The chart below shows 2024 Democratic presidential primary open share prices over time.[15]

RealClearPolitics prediction market averages

Campaign logos

See also: Presidential campaign logos and slogans, 2024

The following chart includes the campaign logo and slogan for each noteworthy Democratic presidential candidate.

2024 Democratic presidential candidate logos
Candidate Logo Slogan
Joe Biden
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  • Let's Finish the Job
Marianne Williamson
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  • A New Beginning


List of registered 2024 Democratic presidential candidates

The following table lists Democratic candidates who filed with the FEC to run for president. Some applicants used pseudonyms; candidate names and party affiliations are written as they appeared on the FEC website on the date that they initially filed with the FEC.[16][17]

This list was last updated on May 13, 2024. The list is sorted alphabetically by first name. Scroll down in the table below to view the full list.

Democratic candidates who have filed for the 2024 presidential election
Candidate Party
Aaron M. He Democratic Party
Adam Ouariti Democratic Party
Adrian Maurice Hall Democratic Party
Ajay Thaliath Democratic Party
Alan Huddleston Democratic Party
Alida Felton Democratic Party
Allan Channey Summers Democratic Party
Amanda Catherine Eskelson Democratic Party
Ann Parkinson Democratic Party
Anthony Manalakos Democratic Party
Antonio Marco Pantalo Democratic Party
Armando Perez-Serrato Democratic Party
Arse Vincent Cysewski Democratic Party
Ashley Powell Democratic Party
Azeem Hussein Democratic Party
Beatrice Ramos Democratic Party
Bella Berg Fonvergne Democratic Party
Benjamin Garcia Democratic Party
Bob Ely Democratic Party
Brent Foutz Democratic Party
Brian Matthew Owen Democratic Party
Brittany A. Mckown Democratic Party
Bryan James Democratic Party
Carson Loveless Democratic Party
Cenk Uygur Democratic Party
Charles Camilleri Democratic Party
Christin Noel Powers Democratic Party
Christopher Campbell Democratic Party
Chris Weiler Democratic Party
Constance L. Johnson Democratic Party
Coran De-Andre Smith Democratic Party
Dantwan Samuel Watkins Democratic Party
David Barnard Democratic Party
David Cash Democratic Party
David Michael Olscamp Democratic Party
DC Jefferson Democratic Party
Dean Phillips Democratic Party
Deborah Sharpe Democratic Party
Derek Nadeau Democratic Party
Diane Hopson Democratic Party
Donald Picard Democratic Party
Doris Brown Democratic Party
Dorsey Porter Democratic Party
Dustin Rorex Democratic Party
Dykeba Lecole Rogers Democratic Party
Earl Davis Democratic Party
Eban Cambridge Democratic Party
Edward Nathaniel Grimes Democratic Party
Erik Leckner Democratic Party
Ethan Witzling Hamby Democratic Party
Evette Rechelle Tippett Democratic Party
Frank J. Lozada Democratic Party
Gabriel Cornejo Democratic Party
Gary Davis Democratic Party
Gary J. Brown Democratic Party
George Brucato Democratic Party
Gerry Coleman Democratic Party
Gibran Nicholas Democratic Party
Golda D. Harris Democratic Party
Gregory Marquis Thomas Democratic Party
Harvey Wizard Democratic Party
Heather Munoz Democratic Party
Herbert Ezekiel Zeke Smyth Democratic Party
Howard Dotson Democratic Party
Hudson Theodore Zoller Democratic Party
Hung Huynh Chan Democratic Party
Isaiah Reid Democratic Party
Ishah Wright Democratic Party
Jamarion Walker Democratic Party
James Nixon Democratic Party
James Orlando Ogle III Democratic Party
Jason Palmer Democratic Party
Jeff Miles Democratic Party
Jennifer Lee Ann Ney Democratic Party
Jennifer McMurray Democratic Party
Jodie Smithson Democratic Party
Joe Biden Democratic Party
Joe Exotic Democratic Party
John Coyne Democratic Party
John Gagliardi Democratic Party
John Haywood Democratic Party
John Vail Democratic Party
John Washington III Democratic Party
Jonathan Tuan Tran Democratic Party
Jose Font Democratic Party
Joseph Firmage Democratic Party
Joseph Jay Manger Democratic Party
Joshua David Horwitz Democratic Party
Julie Jones Democratic Party
Kacey Nicole Samples Democratic Party
Keira Anne Walker Democratic Party
Keith Smith Democratic Party
Kelan Farrell-Smith Democratic Party
Kenny Taylor Democratic Party
Kevin Gilroy Democratic Party
Kevin John Carney Democratic Party
Kina Shamier Kerry Democratic Party
Kristopher Lee Davis Democratic Party
Larry D. Azevedo Democratic Party
Lee Mercer Jr. Democratic Party
Lee Rhodes Democratic Party
Lindsay Kelch Democratic Party
Logan Michael Weir Democratic Party
Lori Ann Henriques Democratic Party
Marcus Alexander Branch Democratic Party
Marianne Williamson Democratic Party
Mark Gelfat Democratic Party
Mark Richard Prascak Democratic Party
Mark Stewart Greenstein Democratic Party
Martin Foster Robbins Democratic Party
Mary Clement Democratic Party
Mattie Preston Democratic Party
Megan Schroeder Democratic Party
Michael Calabrese Democratic Party
Michael Chad Lemere Democratic Party
Michael D'Ottavio Democratic Party
Michael D. Swing Democratic Party
Michael Landingham Democratic Party
Michael Noonan Democratic Party
Michael Soetaert Democratic Party
Michael Steinberg Democratic Party
Michael Tillinghast Democratic Party
Michelle Hudson Hale Democratic Party
Mikey Lane Democratic Party
Nancy Elizabeth Rodriguez Democratic Party
Nicolae Bunea Democratic Party
Nita Mildred Rice Democratic Party
Paperboy Prince Democratic Party
Paul V. LaCava Democratic Party
Pedro J. Velez Democratic Party
Perry Jones Democratic Party
Philip Cortese Democratic Party
Phillip Bryan Kleski Democratic Party
President Boddie Democratic Party
Ralph Robbie Hoffman Democratic Party
Randall Wick Democratic Party
Raymond Bailey Democratic Party
Raymond Moroz Democratic Party
Reponsal Perkins Democratic Party
Richard Hale Nelson Democratic Party
Richard Rist Democratic Party
Rick Chavez Democratic Party
Riki Prado Democratic Party
Robert Carlos Ayala Democratic Party
Robert Ion Moldafsky Democratic Party
Robert Jordan Democratic Party
Robert Michael Becker Democratic Party
Rodger Lee Roose Democratic Party
Roland Kwadwo Dela Agorkle Democratic Party
Ron S. Bull Democratic Party
Ryan Kraft Democratic Party
Ryan McCarty Democratic Party
Ryan P. Kirkpatrick Democratic Party
Sae Hoon Park Democratic Party
Sahmon Mustafa Democratic Party
Saint Jermaine Endeley Democratic Party
Samuel D'Amico Democratic Party
Sean McGuire Democratic Party
Shabadjot Bharara Democratic Party
Shane Aleksander Mohammad Democratic Party
Shantell Newman Democratic Party
Shinae Ahn Democratic Party
Skyles Fitzgerald McAuley Democratic Party
Souraya Faas Democratic Party
Star Locke Democratic Party
Stephen Leon Democratic Party
Stephen Lyons Sr. Democratic Party
Stephen Paul Murphy Democratic Party
Steven Fleck Democratic Party
Stuart Farber Democratic Party
Superpayaseria Crystalroc Democratic Party
Sykema Powell Democratic Party
Terrisa Lin Bukovinac Democratic Party
Theodore Milton Earth Fagin Democratic Party
Thomas Daly Democratic Party
Thomas Francis Winterbottom Democratic Party
Tiffany Gayle Keller Democratic Party
Todd J. Ashcraft Democratic Party
Tom Koos Democratic Party
Trenita Walker Democratic Party
Trista di Genova Democratic Party
Ulrich Neujahr Democratic Party
Valentine Vidal Democratic Party
Vermin Supreme Democratic Party
Victoria Dawn Zieg Democratic Party
Wayne J. Villines Democratic Party
Wayne Pope Democratic Party
Whitney Medearis Democratic Party
William Gailey Democratic Party
Willie Carter Democratic Party


Rules of the Democratic Party

See also: Democratic National Convention, 2024

The following document was adopted on December 1, 2018 by the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee.


Potential Democratic presidential candidates

See also: Presidential candidates, 2024

As of June 2023, the following politicians and public figures were discussed in the media as potential candidates for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.


Democratic politicians

Independent politicians

Democratic business executives and public figures

2020 Democratic presidential nomination

See also: Democratic presidential nomination, 2020

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) was formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020.[31] The convention was originally scheduled to take place July 13-16, 2020.[32] Organizers postponed the event in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Prior to the national convention, individual state caucuses and primaries were held to allocate convention delegates. These delegates vote at the convention to select the nominee. In 2020, a Democratic presidential candidate needed support from 1,991 delegates to secure the nomination.

With the plurality of pledged delegates, Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee on April 8, 2020, after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign.[33] Biden crossed the delegate threshold necessary to win the nomination on June 5, 2020.[34]

Biden announced U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D) as his running mate on August 11, 2020. Harris is the first Black woman to appear on a major party's ticket in the United States.[35]

Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees, 1900-2020

The following chart shows the Democratic presidential ticket from every presidential election between 1900 and 2020.

Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees, 1900-2020
Year Democratic presidential nominee Democratic vice presidential nominee General election result
1900 William Jennings Bryan Adlai Stevenson I Lost
1904 Alton Parker Henry Davis Lost
1908 William Jennings Bryan John Kern Lost
1912 Woodrow Wilson Thomas Marshall Won
1916 Woodrow Wilson Thomas Marshall Won
1920 James Cox Franklin D. Roosevelt Lost
1924 John Davis Charles Bryan Lost
1928 Al Smith Joseph Robinson Lost
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner Won
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner Won
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt Henry Wallace Won
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman Won
1948 Harry Truman Alben Barkley Won
1952 Adlai Stevenson II John Sparkman Lost
1956 Adlai Stevenson II Estes Kefauver Lost
1960 John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Won
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson Hubert Humphrey Won
1968 Hubert Humphrey Edmund Muskie Lost
1972 George McGovern Sargent Shriver Lost
1976 Jimmy Carter Walter Mondale Won
1980 Jimmy Carter Walter Mondale Lost
1984 Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro Lost
1988 Michael Dukakis Lloyd Bentsen Lost
1992 Bill Clinton Al Gore Won
1996 Bill Clinton Al Gore Won
2000 Al Gore Joe Lieberman Lost
2004 John Kerry John Edwards Lost
2008 Barack Obama Joe Biden Won
2012 Barack Obama Joe Biden Won
2016 Hillary Clinton Tim Kaine Lost
2020 Joe Biden Kamala Harris Won

Noteworthy events

Selection of early primary states (2022)

The Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee voted on December 2, 2022, to approve a proposal reordering the early presidential primary calendar. South Carolina was selected as the first primary state on February 3, 2024, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada on February 6, Georgia on February 13, and Michigan on February 27.

The proposal was approved by the full Democratic National Committee on February 4, 2023.[36]

South Carolina, Nevada, and Michigan were the only states that held Democratic primaries on the dates listed in the plan. Iowa also held a compliant primary by holding a caucus to conduct party business on January 15, 2024, when the Iowa caucuses were scheduled, and holding a mail-in primary that ended on March 5. Georgia held its primary on March 12, after the early presidential primary window. New Hampshire Democrats participated in a non-compliant state-run primary on January 23, 2024. The New Hampshire Democrats then held a small state-run primary on April 27, which the DNC found to be in compliance since it was after the early primary window.

In 2020, the first four states to hold primaries were Iowa on February 3, New Hampshire on February 11, Nevada on February 22, then South Carolina on February 29.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ABC News, "DNC to nominate Biden and Harris to bypass Ohio ballot issues," May 28, 2024
  2. YouTube, "Joe Biden Launches His Campaign For President: Let's Finish the Job," April 25, 2023
  3. The Hill, "Marianne Williamson confirms she will run for president in 2024," February 23, 2023
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  6. PR Newswire, "Jason Palmer Announces Bid to Join 2024 Presidential Race," November 10, 2023
  7. Axios, "Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur to run for president in 2024 as Democrat," October 11, 2023
  8. The New York Times, "Dean Phillips Will Run Against Biden," October 26, 2023
  9. Twitter, "Phillips on March 6, 2024," accessed March 6, 2024
  10. Chicago Sun-Times, "Chicago to host 2024 Democratic National Convention," April 11, 2023
  11. ABC News, "DNC to nominate Biden and Harris to bypass Ohio ballot issues," May 28, 2024
  12. Nature, "The power of prediction markets," October 18, 2016
  13. Politico, "Meet the 'stock market' for politics," October 31, 2014
  14. U.S. Presidential General Election Results, "2008 Electoral Map Based on the Intrade Prediction Market," accessed January 25, 2018
  15. PredictIt, "Who will win the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination?" accessed December 20, 2022
  16. FEC, "Candidates for President," accessed June 14, 2021
  17. Candidates with apparent fraudulent, fictitious, or duplicative filings are not included.
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  19. The Washington Times, "NYC Mayor Eric Adams exemplifies the surge of the ‘anti-woke’ Democrat," May 22, 2022
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 Axios, "2024 lookahead poll: Democrats see diverse future," January 5, 2020
  21. 21.0 21.1 The Hill, "Five under-the-radar Democrats who could run for president in 2024," June 27, 2022
  22. The Hill, "Hillary 2024? Given the competition, she may be the Dems' best hope," December 15, 2021
  23. 23.0 23.1 23.2 The Washington Post, "The top 10 non-Biden Democrats for president in 2024, ranked," December 19, 2021
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Politico, "How the coronavirus is shaping the 2024 presidential race," April 2, 2020
  25. CNN, "Ranking the 2024 Democratic field," June 20, 2022
  26. 26.0 26.1 CNN, "11 Democrats who could replace Joe Biden in 2024," December 13, 2021
  27. 27.0 27.1 Politico, "The left is already looking to 2024. Some want to see a Biden primary challenge.," January 1, 2022
  28. Washington Post, "Sanders ‘has not ruled out another run for president’ if Biden doesn’t," April 20, 2022
  29. Rolling Stone, "Andrew Yang Is Already Talking About Running for President in 2024," February 7, 2020
  30. Atlanta Daily World, "Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama Emerge As Top Candidates For 2024 Election," November 30, 2021
  31. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "2020 DNC in Milwaukee pushed back to week of August 17 in response to coronavirus pandemic," April 2, 2020
  32. The New York Times, "Milwaukee Picked as Site of 2020 Democratic National Convention," March 11, 2019
  33. Talking Points Memo, "Bernie Sanders Ends 2020 Bid, Making Biden Presumptive Dem Nominee," April 8, 2020
  34. AP, "Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination," June 5, 2020
  35. CNBC, "Joe Biden picks Sen. Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential running mate, making her the first black woman on a major ticket," August 11, 2020
  36. USA Today, "Democrats approve 2024 primary calendar that demotes Iowa, boosts South Carolina," February 4, 2024