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The 2028 United States presidential election was the 61st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2028. The Democratic ticket of Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, and Raphael Warnock, the junior senator from Georgia defeated the Republican ticket of Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, and Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky. This was the first election in which both presidential nominees were sitting governors and both vice presidential nominees were sitting senators.

Incumbent Democratic President Kamala Harris declined to seek a second term after assuming the presidency upon the death of former Democratic President Joe Biden. This was the first election since 2016 in which neither candidate was an incumbent and the first election since 1968 in which a first-term incumbent declined to run for re-election. Harris announced she would not seek re-election in an address to the nation on December 4, 2026, weeks after the Democrats' defeat in the 2026 midterm elections cost them their majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Shapiro secured the Democratic nomination by March 2028, defeating former West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, former California governor Gavin Newsom, Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and others. The Republicans experienced a competitive primary in which the party was ideologically divided between a revived, more traditional center-right faction and the more national-conservative, populist Trumpian faction.