2020 American Presidential Election (A Second Renaissance)

The 2020 American Presidential Election was held on the 3rd of November 2020. It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will vote on December 14, 2020, determining whether or not Republican nominee President Donald Trump will be re-elected, being eligible for re-election under the 22nd Amendment, or replaced by Democratic nominee former Vice President Joe Biden. 
Both the Democratic and Republican parties held a series of caucuses and primaries from February to August 2020 to determine who their parties would nominate for the General Election. The Democratic Primaries saw an unprecedented 29 major candidates seek the Democratic nomination. In early June 2020, Biden secured the 1,991 delegates required for his party's nomination. President Trump passed the delegate threshold for the Republican nomination in March 2020.
56.1% of eligible voters submitted their votes during the election. Due to the 2019-2023 coronavirus pandemic, mail-in-ballots were supplied in 25 U.S. states despite significant congressional disapproval. The results were first tallied on the 3rd of November, with results from mail-in-ballot states confirmed three days later. CNN was the first news broadcasting agency to call the election, at 7.36 p.m. on the 8th of November 2020, in favour of Biden. Biden was elected the 46th President of the United States of America, and his running mate, Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Tammy Duckworth, was elected the 49th Vice President of the United States of America.
== DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES ==
The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the approximately 3,979 pledged delegates available through a series of primaries and caucuses, beginning in Iowa on the 3rd of February 2020 and ending in Puerto Rico on the 21st of July 2020. Before and in between the primaries, multiple debates and town halls between and for eligible candidates took place on a variety of television networks. The first candidate to announce their candidacy was Representative John Delaney in July 2017, breaking the record for earliest declared presidential candidacy in American electoral history, and the last was former Mayor Michael Bloomberg in November 2019.
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