‘Unprece­dent­ed and volatile’: 100 days to go until Elec­tion Day

There are only 100 days left of the 2024 elec­tion, and if past is pro­logue, any­thing could hap­pen.
In the last month alone, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump debat­ed, lead­ing to Biden heed­ing appeals from mem­bers of his own par­ty to step down as their nom­i­nee and endorse Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris as the next stan­dard-bear­er as he recov­ered from COVID-19. Mean­while, Trump walked away from an assas­si­na­tion attempt the week­end before the Repub­li­can con­ven­tion, where he announced his own vice pres­i­den­tial pick.
But as Trump, Har­ris, and their aides pre­pare for an upend­ed race, it is expect­ed to become a no-holds-barred cam­paign, com­plete with more legal chal­lenges.
It is hard­ly orig­i­nal to describe this elec­tion as “chaot­ic,” but it has been, accord­ing to pres­i­den­tial his­to­ri­an David Pietrusza.
Since Biden launched his reelec­tion cam­paign in April 2023 and Trump did the same the pre­vi­ous Novem­ber, Trump has been found civil­ly liable for sex­u­al­ly abus­ing and defam­ing author E. Jean Car­roll and guilty of 34 crim­i­nal counts of fal­si­fy­ing busi­ness records in his New York hush mon­ey tri­al, mak­ing him the first for­mer pres­i­dent to become a con­vict­ed felon and the first to have his mug shot on mer­chan­dise. He and oth­er Trump Orga­ni­za­tion exec­u­tives were also fined $364 mil­lion in their civ­il fraud case for inflat­ing the val­ue of their assets, pend­ing appeals.

But Trump has had wins in court, with the Supreme …