Has the U.S. general election campaign just started months early?

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We may have just witnessed the unofficial start of the 2024 U.S. general election, its main dynamics set in motion months earlier than usual. Even for a country notorious for its lengthy elections, this could become an abnormally long affair, a 13-month campaign ending on Nov. 5, 2024. It will be fought on at least three main battlegrounds, and this week signalled what to expect on the campaign trail, Congress and the courts. At competing events, Donald Trump and Joe Biden highlighted the clashing visions they'll offer voters if they become their parties' respective presidential nominees. In court, Trump suffered...