2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
The 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests that took place in many U.S. states. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election. Donald Trump received over 18 million votes in the Republican primary, the most ever for an incumbent president in a primary. Trump went on to lose the general election to Democratic former vice president Joe Biden, although Trump has refused to concede defeat.
About 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries in brief
The 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests that took place in many U. S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election. President Donald Trump informally launched his bid for reelection on February 18, 2017. He was followed by former governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld, who announced his campaign on April 15, 2019, and former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, who declared his candidacy on August 25, 2019. In February 2019, the Republican National Committee voted to provide undivided support to Trump. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on March 17, 2020 after securing a majority of pledged delegates. Donald Trump received over 18 million votes in the Republican primary, the most ever for an incumbent president in a primary. Trump went on to lose the general election to Democratic former vice president Joe Biden, although Trump has refused to concede defeat. In 2017, there were rumors of a potential bipartisan ticket consisting of Republican Ohio governor and 2016 presidential candidate John Kasich and Democratic Colorado governor John Hickenlooper.
In November 2018, Kasich asserted that he was’very seriously’ considering a White House bid in 2020. In August 2019, he indicated that he did not see a path to win over Trump in a Republican primary at that time, but that his opinion might change in the future. Some prominent Trump critics within the GOP, including Carly Fiorina, former senator Jeff Flake and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney stated they would not run against Trump for the nomination in 2020, after he earned enough delegates to secure the nomination on March 18, 2020. Former U. s. representative Joe Walsh was a strong Trump supporter in 2016, but gradually became critical of the president. According to Walsh, Trump supporters had become ‘followers who think that Trump can do no wrong’ He ended his campaign following a poor performance in the Iowa Caucuses on February 7, 2020, calling Trump an ‘unfit confit man’ and said that he would likely support whoever was the Democratic nominee in the general elections. In January 2019, former Republican governor of. Massachusetts and 2016 Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld announced the formation of a 2020 presidential exploratory committee. He then withdrew from the race on February 14, 2019 and called Trump a ‘cult man’
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