When historians write about the 2024 U.S. election campaign they might end up considering it the most unusual in modern times.
With only seven weeks to go until Election Day, there have been now two assassination attempts of a presidential candidate, there has been a sitting president who stepped aside as his party’s nominee after splits in the Democratic party.
And there also has been a split in the Republican party with some who immensely like the nominee and others in the party who immensely dislike him.
And along the way, even since the last presidential election cycle, the country has become even more politically divided than it was in the last election season.
We are deeply divided over issues like the economy, immigration and foreign policy and just as divided over cultural and religious issues as well.
Unprecedented is a word you already hear some of today’s historians use to describe the 2024 election campaign.
And even after election day, there are historians who will be watching to see what happens, given what happened after the last election.
In other words, we are watching history in the making as events happen.
And time will tell what history says about them.
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