2020 United States Presidential Election (Trump, Biden)

The 2020 United States presidential election took place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will vote on December 14, 2020,[2]  to either elect a new president and vice president or reelect the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence respectively. The election will occur simultaneously alongside elections for the House of Representatives, Senate, and various state and local-level elections.

Donald Trump, the 45th and incumbent president, has launched a re-election campaign for the Republican primaries; several state Republican Party organizations have cancelled their primaries in a show of support for his candidacy.[3]  Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee on March 17, 2020, after securing a majority of pledged delegates.

29 major candidates launched campaigns for the Democratic nomination, which became the largest field of candidates for any political party in the post-reform period of American politics. Former Vice President Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee when Senator Bernie Sanders, the only other remaining major candidate in the Democratic primary, suspended his campaign on April 8, 2020.

The Libertarian Party nominated professor Jo Jorgensen as its candidate during an online convention on May 23, 2020, making Jorgensen the first female presidential nominee of that party.[5]  Green Party co-founder Howie Hawkins became the party's presumptive nominee on June 20, 2020, after securing a majority of pledged delegates in the Green Party primaries.

Former Vice President Joe Biden started leading in the polls since early April and maintained the lead for the majority of the campaign. The unsettling situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic recession, and George Floyd protests seriously hurt the incumbent president. By early September, Biden held nearly a 10% lead over the incumbent president nationwide.

In mid-September, numbers of COVID-19 cases started decreasing in the United States as the economy began to recover. Trump used the strong economic recovery to his advantage and campaigned almost exclusively on it. A series of gaffes on the campaign trail and Biden's old age also hurt his poll numbers. By election day in early November, Trump has shrunk Biden's lead in the polls to just 2%, with Biden polling at 49% and Trump polling at 47%.

In a surprise to most pundits, incumbent president Donald Trump won re-election getting 297 electoral votes and 49.8% of the popular vote. Joe Biden finished in second getting 241 electoral votes and 49.6% of the popular vote, an improvement from the Democratic performance in 2016. Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen finished in third getting 0.5% of the popular vote and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins finished in fourth getting only 0.1% of the popular vote.