This is the Guardian.

Today, what to expect from a year where both America and the UK will vote in hugely important elections. Well, it's 2024. Happy New Year. I hope you've had a chance to rest and recharge because you're going to need it.

For the first time in more than 30 years,

national elections in the UK and presidential elections in the US

are likely to unfold in the same year.

They might even be the same month.

On their own, both are huge events that can dominate the news for months

that can have global ramifications.

But when they coincide,

in an era of polarized voters, foreign interference,

super realistic AI disinformation. Brace yourself. Things could

get very messy. From the Guardian I'm Michael Safi today in focus.

2024 a very big election year.

Jonathan Friedland, you're a guardian columnist and host of our brilliant

sister podcast Politics Weekly US. Can you begin by laying out what are we

looking at this year?

Well, 2024 is already on the schedule for an American presidential election.

It is always the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

It means you could tell the date now for an election in a hundred years time.

And we know an American presidential election of enormous significance is coming in November

of this year because it is very likely to be a rematch of the incumbent President Joe Biden

and his predecessor Donald Trump and it's pretty

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