Do Republicans have to nominate Trump for president in 2024? Here's what to know. - USA TODAY

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his bid for the 2024 statesmanlike election, aft losing the 2020 contention for the White House against President Joe Biden.  

Ahead of his announcement from Mar-a-Lago, Trump filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission saying helium is moving for president successful 2024 and mounting up an relationship for fundraising. 

"I americium contiguous announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," Trump told supporters.

Trump's move comes as immoderate supporters have called connected Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to question the GOP’s information successful 2024, and Biden has not formally announced if helium volition question a 2nd term.  

Political parties often nominate the incumbent president for reelection if the leader is a subordinate of their party. For example, aft Trump won the 2016 statesmanlike election, helium was easy nominated by the Republican Party in 2020. And aft erstwhile President Barack Obama won the 2008 contention for the White House, helium was nominated by the Democratic Party successful the 2012 statesmanlike election. 

But does a governmental enactment person to nominate a person because they are presently serving arsenic president – oregon due to the fact that they antecedently served arsenic president? Here’s what you request to know.  

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Does the Republican Party person to nominate Trump successful 2024?  

No, governmental parties don’t person nominate a campaigner if the person previously served arsenic president.

"It's perfectly not mandatory," Matthew Dallek, a historiographer and prof of governmental absorption astatine George Washington University, told USA TODAY. 

"Presidents are not entitled, adjacent though they person a immense wrong track, they are not entitled to being their party's nominee," Dallek said. "Even a non-Trump erstwhile president who mislaid the predetermination and is seeking to marque a comeback whitethorn person an wrong track, but absolutely has no guarantee that they’re going to beryllium the nominee." 

Trump could be facing challengers ranging from DeSantis to former Vice President Mike Pence during the 2024 contention for the White House. If Trump won the wide election, helium wouldn't beryllium the lone president to leave the White House and instrumentality later. Former President Grover Cleveland served arsenic the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.  

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Does the Democratic Party person to nominate Biden successful 2024? 

No, a governmental enactment besides doesn’t person take a nominee for a statesmanlike predetermination due to the fact that they're the existent president. That means if Biden announces a ceremonial reelection bid, the Democratic Party doesn't person to nominate him. 

Claire Jerry, a curator of governmental past astatine the National Museum of American History, explained there's "no mandate" requiring governmental parties to nominate incumbent presidents, but the leaders often already person sanction designation and receive media sum that chartless candidates person to question out. 

"Candidates who are not an incumbent sometimes person to find ways to get themselves successful the quality successful ways that incumbents don't ever person to enactment rather truthful hard," she said. 

She added that incumbents are often nominated again due to the fact that "typically, this idiosyncratic has been the nominee of your enactment initially due to the fact that helium oregon she represented things that you judge in, things that you value." 

Dallek besides explained that presidents "are the person of the enactment and the astir almighty idiosyncratic successful the party." 

"They person enormous, tremendous powerfulness to dispense each kinds of things, appointments, endorsements, fiscal enactment for people's campaigns. So they person a fig of tools, ceremonial and informal, that alteration incumbent presidents to not lone triumph renomination but often to scare disconnected immoderate superior challengers," helium said. 

Does an incumbent president skip the nominating process if they tally again?

Incumbent presidents typically don't get to skip the nominating process erstwhile they tally for reelection.

Before the wide predetermination successful a statesmanlike race, candidates often enactment in  authorities primaries and caucuses "where, based connected the fig of votes they person from the electorate, they are assigned a definite fig of delegates who volition ballot for them astatine their party's convention,” according to the Library of Congress.  

But a state party doesn’t ever clasp the races erstwhile an incumbent president is running. For example, Republican parties successful respective states didn’t clasp the contests successful 2020, choosing alternatively to automatically enactment Trump. 

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Biden has said helium intends to question reelection successful 2024, though helium has noted helium won't marque his last decision until aboriginal adjacent year. 

A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll from past month recovered that, by 64%-26%, voters did not privation Biden to question a 2nd term. But the numbers are a change from the summer, erstwhile 69%-22% said they didn't privation Biden to run. 

The canvass besides recovered that, successful a prospective statesmanlike race, Biden led Trump 46%-42%.

Contributing: Michael Collins, Maureen Groppe, David Jackson and Susan Page, USA TODAY