2020 United States presidential election in California
The 2020 U.S. presidential election in California was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. California voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party’s nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. Biden carried California with 63. 5% of the vote and a margin of 29. 2% over Trump.
About 2020 United States presidential election in California in brief
The 2020 U.S. presidential election in California was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. California voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party’s nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. Biden carried California with 63. 5% of the vote and a margin of 29. 2% over Trump. Biden earned the highest percentage of the. vote in the state for any candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.
Biden became the first candidate in any race for any office in U. S. history to win more than 10 million votes in a single state, while Trump also received the most votes a Republican has ever received in any state. California legalized marijuana for recreational use under Proposition 64 in 2016, and 67% of voters favored legalizing the recreational use of marijuana nationwide, breaking for Biden by 75%–22%. Sixty percent of voters approved of Harris. Other prominent state figures, including former Governor Jerry Brown, current Governor Gavin Newsom, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declined to run. California has voted Democratic in every presidential election from 1992 onward.
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