The United States presidential election of 2064 was the 70th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2064. Democratic candidate and incumbent President William J. Rutherford had come to office in January 2061 with the United States gripped in the Second Great Recession, with genetic rights becoming the chief civil rights issue in the United States, and with foreign policy crises in the Korean Peninsula, West Africa, and Indochina. Rutherford and the Democratic Congress had embarked on a series of tax relief, infrastructure reform, labor reform, civil rights reform, and educational reform initiatives which had become known as the New Destiny. The President, moreover, had successfully negotiated the commencement of reunion talks between the increasingly democra