Us presidential election 2024: restorating the state mechanism and re-grouping the two-party system
- Authors: Salomatin A.Y.1
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Affiliations:
- Penza State University
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 44-55
- Section: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL LEGAL SCIENCES
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2307-9525/article/view/301158
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.21685/2307-9525-2024-13-2-5
- ID: 301158
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Background. The impact of presidential elections on the rest of the world is beyond doubt. At the same time, it is also an important domestic political event that affects public policy and the mechanism of the state. These elections, as experience shows, in a two-party system go from one party regrouping to the next, which confirms the relevance of the study. Materials and methods. The article uses electoral statistics, as well as the works of political scientists and political scientists. The author turns to the methods of diachronic and synchronous comparison, as well as analysis and synthesis. Results. The study significantly corrects the point of view of American experts on the past party regroupings. Party regrouping is a phenomenon inherent in the American two-party system for restoring an alternative to the proper degree and preventing the prevalence of consensus in the activities of both parties. Party regrouping is a concept that links critical elections and a change in party systems into a single whole. According to the author, the most recent realignment began with the 2008 presidential election, during which the African-American Barack Obama, a symbolic figure for black voters, was nominated, presenting a meaningful alternative in the form of an attempt to reform health insurance. However, the leadership of the Democratic Party also made strategic mistakes – stirring up the immigration issue and the LGBT agenda, which stimulated the continuation of the party realignment – now by the Republicans. Conclusions. The continuation of the party realignment found itself in the elections of 2016, 2020, and was completed during the 2024 elections. It all took place in the context of an unprecedented cultural and civilizational crisis and the COVID pandemic. The Democratic Party committed gross violations of inter-party ethics and legality, which did not help them retain power in 2024. Both the nominated candidate and the platform turned out to be unsuccessful for them. Compared to 2020, Republican D.Trump has expanded his social support. Most importantly, the Democrats did not dare to resort to election fraud due to fears of provoking a civil war.
About the authors
Alexey Yu. Salomatin
Penza State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: valeriya_zinovev@mail.ru
Doctor of Law, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory of State and Law and Political Studies
40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026References
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