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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]
Candidates who are on the ballot in a minimum of fifteen states. As of June 8, 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden became the presumptive presidential nominee by amassing enough delegates to secure the nomination.
Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote. If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote, the winner is determined through a contingent election held in the United States House of Representatives; this situation has occurred ...
Overall, the 2020 primary field had 29 major candidates, [9] breaking the record for the largest field under the modern presidential primary system previously set during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries with 17 major candidates. [10] Entering the Iowa caucuses on February
By April 2019, more than 20 major candidates were recognized by national and state polls, causing the field of 2020 major Democratic presidential candidates to exceed the field of major candidates in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries as the largest presidential candidate field for any single U.S. political party in a single ...
Major candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries had held significant elective office or received substantial media coverage. Nearly 300 candidates who did not receive significant media coverage also filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in the primary. [94]
The following graph depicts the standing of each candidate in the poll aggregators from September 2019 to November 2020. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, had an average polling lead of 7.9 percentage points over incumbent President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
Harris had widely been considered a "high profile" candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries since 2016. [5][6][7][8][9] Citing a lack of funds, Harris officially withdrew her candidacy on December 3, 2019. [1][10] On March 8, 2020, Harris endorsed former vice president Joe Biden. [11] Harris was chosen by Biden to be his ...