2020 United States presidential election
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence. It was the ninth consecutive presidential election where the victorious candidate did not win a popular vote majority by a double-digit margin. The election saw the highest voter turnout since 1900, with each of the two main tickets receiving more than 74 million votes.
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The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and incumbent U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence. It was the ninth consecutive presidential election where the victorious candidate did not win a popular vote majority by a double-digit margin. The election saw the highest voter turnout since 1900, with each of the two main tickets receiving more than 74 million votes, surpassing Barack Obama’s record of 69. 5 million votes from 2008. Trump became the first U. S. president since 1992 and the eleventh incumbent in the country’s history to lose a bid for a second term, and Biden won the largest share of the popular vote against an incumbent since 1932. The presidential electors formally cast their votes for president and vice President on December 14, and their votes will be officially counted by Congress on January 6, 2021. Biden and Harris are scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021, and will be the first African-American, first Asian-American and third female vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket. Trump and numerous Republicans attempted to subvert the election and overturn the results, falsely alleging widespread voter fraud and trying to influence the vote counting process in swing states. Federal agencies overseeing election security said it was the most secure in American history. The Trump campaign and its allies, including Republican members of Congress, still continued to engage in numerous attempts to overturned the results of the election by filing dozens of legal challenges in several states, most of which were dropped or dismissed by various courts, spreading conspiracy theories falsely alleging fraud, pressuring Republican state electors and legislators, and refusing to cooperate with the presidential transition in what was described by some as an attempted coup.
On multiple occasions, Trump refused to concede and falsely declared himself the winner. Jo Jorgensen secured the Libertarian nomination with Spike Cohen as her running mate, and Howie Hawkins secured the Green nomination with Angela Nicole Walker as his running mate. The primary elections are usually indirect elections where voters cast ballots for a slate of party delegates pledged to a particular candidate. If no candidate receives the minimum 270 electoral votes needed to win the election, the United States House of Representatives will select the candidate who received the most votes from the most electoral votes. If there is no candidate who receives the maximum 270 votes needed, the most members of the Electoral College vote for the president and the vice president. The general election is also an indirect election, in which voters vote for a candidate to run for president on the form that the party’s delegates choose. The party’s convention is then ratified by the delegates at the convention in November. The winner of the general election will be announced on November 30, 2020, and the president will be sworn in on December 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. The president is a natural-born citizen of the United United States, at least 35 years old, and have been a United States resident for at least 14 years.
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