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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 2032. Ron DeSantis, incumbent president and Republican Party nominee, alongside running mate Tim Scott, defeated the Democratic ticket of Catherine Cortez Masto, the senior U.S. Senator from Nevada, and John Fetterman, the senior U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. Brian Fitzpatrick, member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 1st district, ran alongside entrepreneur Andrew Yang for the Forward Party, receiving over 6% of the national popular vote.
JD Vance initially ran for re-election (which would have been disallowed if not for the passage of the United States Term Limits Act in March of 2031), facing little opposition and securing enough delegates to become the Republican Party's presumptive nominee on March 12; his assassination three days later forced the party to find another nominee, marking the first time since 2024 that a party's nominee did not run in the general election after winning enough delegates. DeSantis, having been inaugurated president the previous day, announced his campaign and received widespread support among Republicans. Ben Sasse, former senator from Nebraska, also announced his campaign, but withdrew shortly after. DeSantis chose Tim Scott, the junior senator from South Carolina, to be his running mate.
DeSantis employed a strategy of appealing to emotion, describing his former running mate's assassination as a "national tragedy," and implored Americans to vote for him to "end political violence." As a former governor and a long-time member of the Republican establishment, DeSantis was significantly better-known by voters than his opponent. Cortez Masto drew parallels from DeSantis to Donald Trump, including calling DeSantis a "wannabe fascist" and giving him the nickname "Ronald Trump". Cortez Masto's running mate John Fetterman was picked in an attempt to gain support in swing states, and her campaign consequently won both Nevada and Pennsylvania, as well as several other battleground states; this was overshadowed by the fact that the seceding Free States did not cast electoral votes, thus making a Cortez Masto victory improbable. Though the seceded state of Maine held elections, its electoral votes were invalidated due to its allegiance to New England.
According to polls, the most important issues for voters were national stability, democracy, the economy, climate change, education, and LGBTQ rights. Abortion and illegal immigration were also major issues focused on by each candidate. Polled voters consistently cited national stability and unity during the Second American Civil War as being the single most important issue.
DeSantis achieved victory in the Electoral College, winning 240 electoral votes to Cortez Masto's 190. Though Cortez Masto won every swing state except Georgia, the seceding Free States made a victory impossible without also flipping Georgia, Alaska, and Texas, the latter of which voted for DeSantis by about 6 percentage points. DeSantis won the national popular vote with a plurality of 47.12%, which would be the last time a Republican did so until Joseph Clarke in 2044. Cortez Masto improved upon Gavin Newsom's 2028 campaign among working class voters, minorities (particularly Hispanic and Latino Americans), and those with college degrees. This was the first of two elections won by DeSantis, the second being in 2036 against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Maine, a state in the separatist nation of New England, was the only seceding state that held elections. DeSantis won Maine's 2nd district and Cortez Masto won its 1st district and the statewide election, but the results were invalidated and Maine sent no electors.