US Elections 2024: Courts, bullets and verbal stumbling blocks have marked this year US election campaign – one of the most extraordinary campaigns in the nation’s history.

Here are five key moments so far as candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris get closer. Vote On November 5th.

Trump is guilty

“Embers Guilty” was splashed across the world’s front pages. On May 30, the Republican became the first former US president to be convicted of felonies – 34 counts, to be exact.

It was revealed that he falsified business records to hide a hush money payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of his 2016 election victory, thus not publicly disclosing their alleged sexual relationship.

During the explosive six-week trial, Daniels shares excruciating details about their apparent one-night stand, including the sex position and Trump’s silky pajamas.

The ordeal takes him off the campaign trail, but massive media attention keeps him in the spotlight, even as his guilt hangs over him.

Nothing in US law prevents Embers Republicans who gave up running for the White House after the guilty verdict redoubled their unwavering support for the party’s standard-bearer, who still faces three other criminal charges.

debate drama

Democratic hopes shattered after President Joe BidenThe party’s presumptive nominee had a disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump on June 27.

The 81-year-old’s clumsy delivery of his words and the fact that he often appears to forget what he said is raising fears that he is unfit to run for president again.

Biden calls it a “bad night,” but opponents say otherwise; donors are threatening to pull funds if Biden doesn’t step aside.

Post-debate polls show Trump dropping out of election Biden but the White House insists the chances of him withdrawing are zero.

Assassination attempt

Sun-baked Trump rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, vote The most shocking moment of the campaign so far.

Explosions are heard, Trump touches his ear, sees blood and falls on the stage. Secret Service officers surround him as screams rise from the crowd.

Within seconds, Trump is helped to his feet. “Fight, fight, fight!” He addresses the cheering audience, raising his fist to create one of the most iconic images in US political history.

The gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot and killed at the scene by the Secret Service. Embers He survived with a slight scratch on his right ear.

Trump’s base is galvanized. “I took a bullet for democracy,” he told supporters at a later rally.

Biden said ‘goodbye’

At 1:46 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, the beleaguered President Biden announced in a tweet that he would not seek re-election, leading to intense concerns that he could beat Trump in November.

That makes him the first president since 1968 not to seek re-election, upending the race for the White House.

Kamala HarrisThe first black and Asian-American woman to serve as U.S. vice president has received Biden’s endorsement to succeed him in the campaign.

Within two weeks, she had officially secured the Democratic nomination, making her the first black woman to become a major party nominee.

Harris is re-energizing Democrats and delivering immediate results in the polls by rolling back Trump gains, including in swing states that determined the election.

Trump’s second fear

Trump’s weekend golf outing in Florida on September 15 was disrupted by gunshots, this time fired by a Secret Service agent who thwarted what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt.

The Republican candidate was unscathed by the second such scare in two months.

Investigators said the gunman, Ryan Routh, did not shoot at Trump but instead ran away after a security guard opened fire after seeing his rifle pointed at a treeline on the golf course.

Trump attributes assassination fears to Biden’s allegedly provocative “rhetoric” and Harris.

Democrats say they condemn political violence, but the incident underscores the instability in US politics just weeks before voters head to the polls.

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