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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]
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The 2020 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic Party's nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, defeated incumbent Republican president Donald Trump in the presidential election. Despite losing seats in the House of Representatives, Democrats retained control of the House and gained control of the Senate.
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- Harvard Political Review. United States. Can 2020 Change the U.S. Electoral System for the Better? By Daniel Pinckney. November 6, 2020. The 2020 presidential election is set to be one of the most controversial and unprecedented election cycles in all of American history.
Oct 22, 2020 · November 3, 2020: General Election Day. General election day for electors for the President and Vice President is set by law (3 U.S.C. §1) as the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in presidential election years. Voters cast a single vote for a joint ticket of their preferred candidates for President and Vice President.
Nov 4, 2020 · The US Elections Project estimates nearly 67 percent turnout — the highest since 1900.
Mar 28, 2024 · United States presidential election of 2020, election, held during the global coronavirus pandemic, in which Democrat Joe Biden, formerly the 47th U.S. vice president, defeated the incumbent president, Republican Donald Trump, to become the 46th U.S. president. Biden won the Electoral College vote 306 to 232.
Senator Kamala Harris was announced as former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate on August 11, 2020. When inaugurated, Harris will be the first woman, first African-American, and first Asian-American vice president of the United States, as well as the second person with non-European ancestry (after Herbert Hoover's vice-president Charles Curtis).
