2020 Presidential Election in the United States (Presidential Connor)

The 2020 Presidential Election was crazy, incumbent President Donald Trump wanted a second term, but he was very unliked. Trump raised the National Debt by a lot, he had told about 22,000 lies during his term, people were wondering if he could win again. Back in 2016 Trump was expected to lose by a landslide to former First Lady Hillary Clinton, but Trump received 304 electoral votes while Clinton received 227 electoral votes.

Democratic Primaries

A whole bunch of Democrats rushed in to get the nomination, there were :Joe Biden the former Vice President under Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders a Independent senator from Vermont, Elizabeth Warren a senator from Massachusetts, Pete Buttigieg the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Micheal Bloomberg the former Mayor of New York City, Amy Klobuchar a senator from Minnesota, Tulsi Gabbard the Representative from Hawaii’s 2nd district, and Cory Booker a senator from New Jersey. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were the biggest candidates in the primaries. Buttigieg shocked everyone when he won the Iowa Caucus.

Biden received 2,687 delegates, and Sanders received 1,073 delegates.

Republican Primaries

President Trump was expected to win in the Republican Primaries, the biggest two candidates against Trump were: Bill Weld the former Governor of Massachusetts, Joe Walsh the former Representative from Illinois’ 8th district.

Trump received 2,549 delegates, and Bill Weld received 1 delegate.

Coronavirus

In December of 2019, China had gotten a virus called COVID-19 in Woohan, China. On January 20, 2020 in Washington State the first coronavirus case was confirmed in the US. In April it had gotten even worse. Trump was keep saying that it would stop soon and that it was fine even though it wasn’t. Dr. Faucci was a scientist who was trying to find a vaccine, and Trump hated Faucci

Black Lives Matter

On May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis an African-American named George Floyd was choked to death by a cop, many people started protesting saying that it was racial even though Floyd was a felon.

The protests kept going on that year until when October, it started to stop.

Polls

Biden was leading in the polls by a large margin