Donald Trump could make history as the second US president to serve non-consecutive terms if he wins the 2024 presidential election, a feat last accomplished 132 years ago.

Trump is the first defeated president to run for re-election since the late 19th century. While President Theodore Roosevelt ran for a third term in 1912, he was previously defeated and failed to win a major party nomination.

Only one person has served two non-consecutive terms in the White House: Grover Cleveland. The Democrat was first elected president in 1884. He was defeated by Republican Benjamin Harrison for re-election in 1888, despite winning the popular vote on both occasions.

To win the presidency, a candidate must secure 270 Electoral College votes, which does not always match the national popular vote, as was most recently the case in 2016, when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in 2016.

Four years after his failed attempt, Cleveland was again the Democratic presidential candidate and went on to win the 1892 election against Harrison, the only American president to do so. Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th American presidents.

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Trump, the Republican presidential nominee for the third time – first in 2016, then in 2020 and now in 2024 – is in an extremely close race for the White House against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Most national polls show Harris leading in the popular vote, with margins shrinking daily. As of Friday, The Hill shows Harris with a lead of 0.3 percentage points, The New York Times In total she has a 1 point lead, and 538 finds her 1.2 points lead. RealClearPolling shows Trump with a 0.3 percentage point lead.

Several forecasters predict that Trump will win the election.

On Friday afternoon, the 538 prediction gave Trump a 52 percent chance of winning, compared to Harris’s 48 percent. Pollster Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin projects an even wider margin, with Trump having a 53.8 percent chance of winning, compared to Harris’ 45.8 percent.

According to The Hill’s prediction, there is a 54 percent chance that Trump will win the presidency.

In 2020, incumbent Trump lost the presidential election to President Joe Biden. The Democratic candidate captured several key battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

The 2024 election will be largely determined in much the same way by several thousand votes in crucial battleground states, with the two major party candidates primarily vying for Pennsylvania, the battleground state with the most Electoral College votes, 19.

The polls were very tight in the seven major battleground states. From Friday afternoon The New York Times The overall poll showed Trump ahead in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Pennsylvania, while Harris led in Wisconsin and Michigan.