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2020 United States presidential election

Started by NiveRoshni, Aug 12, 2020, 01:07 PM

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The 2020 United States presidential election is scheduled for 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, to either elect a new president and vice president or reelect the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence respectively.[2] The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses are being held from February to August 2020. This nominating process is an indirect election, where voters cast ballots selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then, in turn, elect their party's nominees for president and vice president.

Donald Trump, the 45th and incumbent president, has launched a re-election campaign for the Republican primaries; several state Republican Party organizations have canceled 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.[4] 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. In early June, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates to gain the nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, and on August 11, 2020, announced that his running mate would be Senator Kamala Harris. Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen secured her party's nomination at a virtual convention on May 23, 2020, with her running mate, Spike Cohen being chosen shortly thereafter, while Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins secured his party's nomination on July 11, 2020, along with his running mate Angela Nicole Walker.

Biden and Trump are respectively the oldest and second-oldest major party presumptive presidential nominees in U.S. history; and if either of them is elected and inaugurated, they will also become the oldest serving president presuming they serve out their term.[c] If elected and inaugurated, Harris would be the first woman, first African American, and first Asian vice president of the United States. Harris would also be the second vice president to have acknowledged non-European ancestry (after Herbert Hoover's vice-president Charles Curtis). The winner of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021.