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2032 United States presidential election
538 members of the Electoral College; 270 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	56.8% 0.3 pp
	Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Whitmer/Booker and red denotes those won by Hawley/Ramaswamy. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.
President before election; Gretchen Whitmer; Democratic	Elected President ; Gretchen Whitmer; Democratic

The 2032 United States presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 9, 2032 and saw the re-election of the incumbent Democratic president Gretchen Whitmer against Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri.

President Whitmer was immensely popular throughout her first term, holding the highest presidential approval rating since George W. Bush in 2001. Her achievements included the signing of the Women's Health Protection Act of 2029 and the recovery of the U.S. economy from the Second Great Recession, with rising employment and wages. Her support in breaking up American Information technology companies was also widely praised. However, Whitmer faced considerable pressure from progressive Democrats who criticized her for the inability of her administration to fully implement Green New Deal policies as a result of Republican gains in the Senate after the 2030 congressional elections. Additionally, while Whitmer was widely lauded for her diplomatic handling of the end of the Russo-Ukrainian War through American leadership in the Hague Peace Accords that followed, many Republicans criticized her administration's stance on Russia as being too harsh, and accused her administration of intentionally damaging diplomatic relations with a defeated country.

Hawley won in the hotly-contested 2032 Republican primaries, selecting entrepreneur, writer, and former Ohio Senator Vivek Ramaswamy as his running mate. Hawley's economic stance was that Whitmer's Gretchenomics economic policy and its favoring of free trade would leave the economy open to foreign investment. Hawley thus proposed a limited protectionist economic policy designed to protect the economy from said investors. He also vowed to end Whitmer's "tech war", which many Republicans had criticized as government overreach. Hawley was also opposed to the highly interventionist foreign policy of the Whitmer administration, and promised that he would back out of the Hague Peace Accords, stating that "the United States does not go in search of monsters to destroy". Both Whitmer and Hawley had promised to complete the implementation of the Green New Deal, though Hawley's approach was notably more conservative, openly stating that total carbon neutrality in the United States was not a realistic goal. Whitmer's re-election campaign subsequently launched a smear campaign against Hawley, claiming that he was in the pocket of fossil fuel companies that wanted to curb the progress in environmental policy that had been made by Whitmer's administration. Furthermore, Whitmer's campaign also attacked Ramaswamy regarding his highly far-right and socially conservative views that the Republican Party was attempting to distance itself from.

Due to the immense popularity of her presidency, Whitmer was re-elected in a landslide, though Republicans, running as the sole opposition, fared better than 2028 as a result of the right-wing vote not being split by a third party challenger. Hawley carried 17 states winning a total of 107 electoral votes, compared to Whitmer's 431 electoral votes carrying 33 states including Washington, D.C..