# Harris loses the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 5 November 2024 [Kamala Harris](/people/kamala-harris) lost the US presidential election to [Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) after a compressed campaign that began when [Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) withdrew in July.

## Context

Walz was the running mate. Neighbouring nomination is July–August 2024.

22 July 2024 nomination launch is neighbouring. 20 January 2025 Trump inauguration is later.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

National Archives and Records Administration carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed certified rotation is a dated electoral instrument. A loss is not a statute repeal.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 5 November 2024 Harris defeat, independently reported and later certified.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

She headed the ticket. Trump won. States certified.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Harris loses the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump, not a later speech about Harris loses the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Harris loses the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump on 2024-11-05 is not a licence to treat every later National Archives and Records Administration communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Harris loses the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters chose. She headed the ticket. Trump won. States certified. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-defeats-harris-2024-presidential-election-2024-11-06/
- https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-2024-loss