Top Famous Figures to Run for President in 2024

Joe Biden

In less than two months after he won the 2021 campaign, President Joe Biden declared that he will run for reelection in 2024, with Vice President Kamala Harris by his side. Biden was a U.S. Senator from 1973 until 2009, when he got promoted to vice president, under the Obama administration.

After he managed to beat out a very strong pool of Democratic candidates back in 2020 in the presidential primaries, he “fought” with incumbent President Donald Trump, managing to secure both the popular vote and electoral college.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump is the only President of the United States that was twice impeached and fully surrounded in controversy “from head to toe”, so to speak.

While he is far from the ideal candidate for the Republican Party in 2024, he has proven many times before that he manages to have a great impact on his audience (perhaps too well), given that his own supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after he lost the reelection to President Biden.

Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams was one of PEOPLE’s 2021 Women Changing the World and keeps on being a rising star in the Democratic Party. She was credited for mobilizing the masses in Georgia, turning the state blue in the 2020 election for the very first time in almost 30 years.

The Peach State is still her primary focus, as she sought to become Georgia’s governor this year, without success. While Abrams openly explained her wish to run for president throughout her career, she has not suggested yet that she will do so in 2024.

Pete Buttigieg

The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was completely unknown until he decided to run for president in the 2020 election. Pete Buttigieg ended up in the fifth spot in the primaries after he dropped out of the race and decided to endorse Biden.

He’s now the secretary of transportation for the Biden administration, and he is considered the most likely Democratic replacement for President Biden by many political strategists.

Liz Cheney

She represents Wyoming in the House of Representatives since 2017. She is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and she easily earned respect from both parties, as she represented the voice of reason during difficult times.

During the Capitol riots, Liz Cheney was one of the few Republicans that voted for Trump’s impeachment, which was seen as a move that eventually cost her the title of third-ranking House Republican.

Ever since then, Cheney expressed many times her opposition to Trump. Because of that, she has been somehow ostracized by the Republican Party and even lost her battle for reelection to a Trump-backed candidate in August.