2024 Presidential Election

The 2024 Republican National Convention will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The site of the 2024 Democratic National Convention has not yet been selected. Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, and New York City have submitted bids. The decision had not been made as of 4/10/23.


The following people have indicated or been commonly named as someone thinking about or planning to run for president in 2024. This list is a result of the mining of a variety of lists published in the last few months.

The most recent addition to the list of people who have announced they are seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024 is Asa Hutchinson, the recently retired Governor of Arkansas.

For the Republican nomination:

The following have announced their candidacies:

Donald Trump
Nikki Haley – Former governor of South Carolina
Vivek Ramaswamy – Entrepreneur and author
Asa Hutchinson – former Governor of Arkansas

(Several on this list have said they will not run if Trump runs again.):

Kristi Noem – Governor of South Dakota
Chris Sununu – Governor of New Hampshire
Ron DeSantis – Governor of Florida
Chris Christie – Former Governor of New Jersey
Brian Kemp – Governor pf Georgia
Mike Pence – Former Vice President
Mike Pompeo – Former Secretary of State
Glenn Youngkin – Governor of Virginia

Republicans who have said they are not running in 2024:

Rick Scott – U.S. Senator
Josh Hawley – U.S. Senator
Tom Cotton – U.S. Senator
Larry Hogan – former Governor of Maryland

In the 2024 Republican primary, Trump has a strong lead among potential rivals. [RCP 3/22/23]

Trump 50.8%
Ron DeSantis 24.6%
Mike Pence 5%
Liz Cheney 3.4%
Nikki Haley 4.5%
Christie 1.6%
Kristi Noem 1.5%
Mike Pompeo 1.1%
Ramaswamy 0.9%
Sununu 0.8%
Tim Scott 0.8%
Youngkin 0.3%

For the Democratic nomination if Biden does not run. This list is not particularly useful but…

(Biden 36.5%)
Harris 10.3%
Sanders 8.8%
Buttigieg 8.8%
Warren 5.0%
Klobuchar 3.3%
Newsom 2.7%