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2020 United States presidential election

This article is about the 2020 US presidential election. For the other 2020 US elections, see 2020 United States elections.

2020 United States presidential election
← 2016 November 3, 2020[a] 2024 →
538 members of the Electoral College
270 electoral votes needed to win
Opinion polls
Turnout66.6% Increase 6.5 pp[b]
 
Nominee Joe Biden Donald Trump
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Delaware Florida[c]
Running mate Kamala Harris Mike Pence
Electoral vote 306 232
States carried 25 + DC + NE-02 25 + ME-02
Popular vote 81,283,501[1] 74,223,975[1]
Percentage 51.3% 46.8%
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Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Biden/Harris and red denotes those won by Trump/Pence. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.
President before election

Donald Trump
Republican

Elected President

Joe Biden
Democratic


2020 U.S. presidential election
Attempts to overturn
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The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.[a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence.[9] The election took place against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic and related recession. The election saw the highest voter turnout by percentage 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. Biden received more than 81 million votes,[10] the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election.[11]

In a competitive primary that featured the most candidates for any political party in the modern era of American politics, Biden secured the Democratic presidential nomination over his closest rival, Senator Bernie Sanders. Biden's running mate, Harris, became the first African-American, first Asian-American, and third female[d] vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket. Trump secured re-nomination, getting a total of 2,549 delegates, one of the most in presidential primary history, to runner-up Bill Weld's one delegate in the Republican primaries.[12] Jo Jorgensen secured the Libertarian presidential nomination with Spike Cohen as her running mate, and Howie Hawkins secured the Green presidential nomination with Angela Nicole Walker as his running mate.

The central issues of the election included the public health and economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; civil unrest in reaction to the police murder of George Floyd and others; the Supreme Court following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett; and the future of the Affordable Care Act.[13] Due to the ongoing pandemic, a record number of ballots were cast early and by mail.[14] Many more registered Democrats voted by mail than registered Republicans.[15][16] As a result of a large number of mail-in ballots, some swing states saw delays in vote counting and reporting; this led to major news outlets delaying their projection of Biden and Harris as the president-elect and vice president-elect until the morning of November 7, three and a half days after the election. Major media networks project a state for a candidate once there is high statistical confidence that the outstanding vote would be unlikely to prevent the projected winner from ultimately winning that state.[17]

Biden ultimately received the majority in the Electoral College with 306 electoral votes, while Trump received 232. Trump was the first president to lose re-election since George H. W. Bush in 1992. Key to Biden's victory were his wins in the Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which Trump narrowly carried in 2016 and whose combined 46 electoral votes were enough to swing the election to either candidate. Biden also became the first Democrat to win a presidential election in Georgia since 1992 and in Arizona since 1996, as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district since 2008.[18][19]

Before, during, and after Election Day, Trump and numerous other Republicans engaged in an aggressive and unprecedented[20] attempt to subvert the election and overturn the results,[21] falsely alleging widespread voter fraud and trying to influence the vote-counting process in swing states,[22] in what was described by many as an attempted coup d'état,[23] or more specifically a self-coup.[24] Attorney General William Barr and officials in each of the 50 states found no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities in the election.[25][26] Federal agencies overseeing election security said it was the most secure in American history.[27][28][29] The Trump campaign and its allies, including Republican members of Congress,[30] continued to engage in numerous attempts to overturn the results of the election by filing numerous lawsuits in several states (most of which were withdrawn or dismissed),[31] spreading conspiracy theories alleging fraud,[32] pressuring Republican state election officials (including, notably, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in a phone call that later became widely publicized) and legislators to change results,[33] pressuring the Department of Justice to declare the election "corrupt" and intervene,[34][35] objecting to the Electoral College certification in Congress,[36][37] and refusing to cooperate with the presidential transition of Joe Biden.[23] With Trump vowing that he would never concede the election and after exhorting his followers to "fight like hell", a mob of Trump supporters attacked the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, during the joint session of Congress held to certify the Electoral College count.[38] On January 7, Trump acknowledged the incoming administration without mentioning Biden's name.[39] Biden and Harris were inaugurated on January 20, 2021; in a break from tradition, Trump did not attend his successor's inauguration.[40] Trump was indicted on August 1, 2023, on four counts relating to conspiring to overturn the results.


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