Slate takes final stock of just how Not Normal this election was. Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race over the summer was the latest that a major-party candidate has ever quit a presidential campaign—by a lot. Lyndon Johnson had set the previous standard for stunning race shakeups by dropping out in late March 1968; Biden dropped out more than three months after that . In some states, early voting started less than two months after Kamala Harris became the Democrats’ presumptive nominee.