2020 U.S presidential election (Forward Thinking)

The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial U.S presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020. This election was held along senate, house, gubernatorial and local elections.

The Democratic nominee, U.S Senator Bernard "Bernie" Sanders from Vermont defeated Republican nominee, Incumbent President Donald J. Trump from Florida and Independent businessman and reality star host Mark Cuban from Texas.

Bernie Sanders emerged as the Democrats front-runner amidst of many candidates in the Democratic primary field, while Trump defeated his primary challengers Bill Weld and Joe Walsh.

Sanders ran a progressive left-populist campaign, which promised to end political corruption in Washington D.C, end regime-change wars and make basic needs like Healthcare, College, etc. for everyone without cost. Trump campaigned on the slogan "Keep America Great", which seemed oxymoronic due to the economic situation in the country, and opposed Bernie Sanders "Socialist" Ideas, political correctness and illegal immigration. Cuban ran a centrist campaign, opposing the ideas of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump and promising to heal the divide in the country.

The economy was in a recession, which started in February 2020 as many American workers were laid off from their jobs. Prior to the recession, the economy was one of Trump's greatest talking points and he lost a lot of credibility among working class Americans when the economy crashed. In March of 2020, Trump's approval rating was 32%, the lowest in all of his presidency. President Trump would cut corporate taxes in April, which was largely ineffective.

Sanders defeated Trump, 375-163 in the electoral college and 52-34 in the popular vote. Sanders would become the oldest president at the age of 79 and become the first Jewish president. However, Trump would become the first president since George H. W. Bush to lose re-election to the presidency. Sanders would flip back the Obama to Trump states of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Maine's 2nd Congressional District. Sanders would also win the states of Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia, which weren't won by a Democrat since Bill Clinton in 1996, Barack Obama in 2008 and Bill Clinton in 1992.