2024 Presidential Election First Without a Biden, Clinton or Bush on Ballot Since '76?
By: Sean Eifert (Snopes)
"Our long national nightmare is over." Or, has it just begun?
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Claim: The 2024 U.S. presidential election will be the first since 1976 that doesn't feature a Bush, Biden, or Clinton on the ballot. Rating: True
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When U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic party's candidate, he made history. Not only does Harris have the possibility to be only the second female major party candidate, but she also set history in another intriguing way.
On June 25, 2024, a Reddit user posited that the 2024 presidential election will be the first to not feature a Bush, Biden or Clinton on the ballot:
The claim has circulated across social media platforms, appearing on Facebook and X. It also appeared on TikTok, with on user stating that there would be "no more political dynasties":
The claim is true.
According to a dataset "Presidential Election Results, 1789-2020" from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of History, a candidate, either presidential or vice presidential, has had the last name of Bush, Biden or Clinton in every presidential election starting in 1980. In sum, these are our findings:
In 1980, Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and Vice Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush ran against Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter (and Walter Mondale) and won. Reagan and Bush ran again in 1984 and won a second term in office. In 1988, Bush ran for president and won. Bill Clinton ran in 1992 against Bush for president and won. Clinton ran again in 1996 and secured a second presidential term.
In 2000, George W. Bush, a son of George H. W. Bush, ran for president and won, then ran for a second term in 2004 and won a second term. In 2008, Barrack Obama ran with then-Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden. Obama and Biden ran again in 2012 and won. In 2016 Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton and former secretary of state in the Obama administration, ran against Donald Trump and lost that election. Biden ran for president in 2020 against Donald Trump and won.
Although a familiar last name will reappear on the 2024 presidential election ballot, with Trump securing the Republican nomination, Biden announced in July he would not run again. Harris has secured enough delegates to become the Democratic candidate running against Trump.
Although she hasn't named her running mate, the most popular options, according to reporting by The Guardian, are Mark Kelly, U.S. Representative from Arizona, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
None of those individuals has the last name of Bush, Biden, or Clinton, so it's true that no one with those last names will appear on the 2024 presidential ballot, which will be the first time since 1976.
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