2020 United States presidential election

2016 ←
November 3, 2020
→ 2024

538 members of the Electoral College

270 electoral votes needed to win

Nominee
**Nicholas Redden**
Mark Chamberlain

Party
Democratic
Republican

Home state
Michigan
Illinois

Running mate
**James Lester**
Randolph Watson

Electoral vote
**315**
223

States carried
**28 + DC**
22

Popular vote
**79,148,554**
73,216,782

Percentage
**50.9%**
47.3%

Presidential election results map (2020 census) prior to exposing of electoral fraud. Blue denotes states won by Redden/Lester and red denotes those won by Chamberlain/Watson. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.

The **2020 United States presidential election** was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Nicholas Redden and the senior U.S. senator from Louisiana James Lester defeated the incumbent Republican president Mark Chamberlain and incumbent vice president Randolph Watson.

The Democratic field was not particularly abundant, with five major candidates dominating the field: former Vice President Redden of Michigan, former Secretary of State and 2004 nominee Marshall Jennings of Colorado, Governor Aaron Francis of Minnesota, U.S. Representative Jade Morris of New Jersey and U.S. Senator James Lester of Louisiana. Redden won the nomination and selected Lester as his running mate. Senator Lester, became the first Native American vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket. Central issues of the election included the public health and economic impacts of the ongoing AIV-20 pandemic; civil unrest from both sides of the political spectrum and the U.S. Supreme Court following the death of Frank Moore and confirmation of Natasha Foster.

The election saw a record number of ballots cast early and by mail due to the ongoing pandemic. Many more Democrats voted by mail than Republicans. As a result of a large number of mail-in ballots, some swing states saw delays in vote counting and reporting; this led to major news outlets delaying their projection of Redden and Lester as the president-elect and vice president-elect until the morning of November 8, four and a half days after the election. Major media networks project a state for a candidate once there is high mathematical confidence that the outstanding vote would be unlikely to prevent the projected winner from ultimately winning that state.

Before, during and after Election Day, the Chamberlain campaign refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of Redden's victory and with a legal team led by former Solicitor-General Jay Bradshaw, President Chamberlain began challenging the results in numerous states, specifically Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Most lawsuits were eventually tossed out and/or dismissed by the courts.

Most Republicans stood by President Chamberlain's claims, including the Senate and House leaders and Vice President Watson, who publicly stated that he would pressure Congress to refuse electoral votes from fraud-ridden states. After the release of the Nicholas-Isobel Redden tape, the President-elect's popularity plummeted and some Democrats began calling for his resignation and even conceded that he used illegitimate means to pave his way to the White House.

## 2020 United States presidential election (final)

2016 ←
November 3, 2020
→ 2024

270 electoral votes votes needed to win

Nominee
**Mark Chamberlain**
Nicholas Redden

Party
Republican
Democratic

Home state
Illinois
Michigan

Running mate
**Randolph Watson**
James Lester

Electoral vote
**355**
183

Popular vote
**85,241,298**
61,694,100

Percentage
**54.3%**
39.3%

Presidential election results map (2020 census) after the exposing of electoral fraud. Blue denotes states won by Redden/Lester and red denotes those won by Chamberlain/Watson. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.