page_title: Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election
section_title: June 2020
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election / 2020 / June 2020
caption_attribution_description: President Donald J. Trump walks from the White House Monday evening, June 1, 2020, to St. John’s Episcopal Church, known as the church of Presidents’s, that was damaged by fire during demonstrations in nearby LaFayette Square Sunday evening. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of major events leading up, during, and after the 2020 United States presidential election, the 59th quadrennial United States presidential election. President Donald Trump of the Republican Party, who was elected in 2016, is seeking reelection to a second term. The presidential primaries and caucuses are scheduled to be held between February and August 2020, staggered among the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories. On April 8, former vice president Joe Biden became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. The general election is scheduled to be held on November 3. The U.S. Congress is then scheduled to certify the electoral result on January 5, 2021, and the new or incumbent president and vice president will be inaugurated on January 20, 2021.
context_section_description: June 1:
  In Philadelphia, Biden makes his first campaign stop in months after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, discussing race relations and the Floyd killing.
  Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and deploy the U.S. military in response to the unrest.
  Police and National Guard troops forcefully clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square and surrounding streets in Washington, D.C., so Trump can walk from the White House to the St. John's Episcopal Church for a photo-op outside the historic church, which burned during the Floyd protests during the previous night. The forceful clearing of the protesters from the area is widely condemned as excessive and an affront to the freedom of assembly clause of the First Amendment.
  June 2:
  The Republican National Convention is pulled out of Charlotte, North Carolina, on grounds that the state's plan to continue its COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns through August would prevent a full-scale convention.
  Democratic primaries: Biden wins all eight contests to come within a few dozen delegates of clinching the nomination: District of Columbia, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and South Dakota
  Republican primaries: Trump wins all eight contests: District of Columbia, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota
  June 3: In a piece published by The Atlantic, former defense secretary Jim Mattis criticizes Trump's response to the George Floyd protests, and states that he became "angry and appalled" about the events leading up to the violent treatment of noncombative protesters near the White House for the purpose of Trump's photo-op at St. John's Church.
  June 5: The Republican Party of Puerto Rico holds an online vote of party leaders in lieu of an actual primary, awarding all 23 of its pledged delegates Trump.
  June 6: Biden wins both Democratic caucuses in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, clinching enough delegates to officially become the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee.
  June 9:
  Biden wins both Democratic primaries in Georgia and West Virginia.
  Trump wins both Republican primaries in Georgia and West Virginia.
  June 10: Trump's presidential campaign demands that CNN withdraw and apologize for its latest opinion poll showing Biden leading by 14 points, claiming it was "designed to mislead American voters through a biased questionnaire and skewed sampling". CNN vice-president David Vigilante defends its poll methodology and rejects the allegations, stating that "this is the first time in its 40-year history that CNN had been threatened with legal action because an American politician or campaign did not like CNN's polling results".
  June 11: The Republican National Committee announces that Jacksonville, Florida will be the new host city of the Republican National Convention. Due to contractual obligations, official convention business will still be conducted in Charlotte.
  June 15: Louis DeJoy is sworn in as postmaster general. Upon taking office he immediately begins taking measures to reduce costs, such as banning the use of overtime and extra trips to deliver mail.
  June 17: Biden addresses a small group of socially distant reporters and local lawmakers during an in-person campaign event in Darby, Pennsylvania.
  June 18: Trump begins pushing for four debates against Biden, rather than just the three originally scheduled in the fall, citing an expected surge in mail and absentee voting because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  June 20: At the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trump held his first public rally since the wider activation of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally planned for June 19 but was moved because it coincided with Juneteenth, which was deemed insensitive due to both the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and the Floyd killing. The total attendance of the rally was lower than was expected; roughly a week prior, Trump claimed that "almost one million" people had requested tickets. However, Tulsa's fire department and the Trump campaign each reported crowd estimates of 6,200 and 12,000, respectively — l
caption: The Donald Trump photo-op at St. John's Church, June 1, 2020
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