2020 Campaign (President Infinity)

Default 2020 Campaign Start Screen

*←Prior Campaign: 2016* | *Next Campaign: 2024→*

**Note: There is a President Infinity (Classic) version of this campaign which is somewhat different. Find it here.**

The **2020 Campaign** is the latest installment in the Campaign list for the 270soft game President Infinity.

# Blurbs

## Primaries/General

> Will populism continue its rise in American politics, or will new political currents emerge in 2020? A large field assembles on the Democratic side, but can the party strike a balance between idealism and practicalism, and nominate someone who can defeat Trump? On the Republican side, will a significant challenger to Trump arise, or will Trump consolidate the party's support and enter the general election without a divisive primary? Much depends on the winner of 2020.
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# Candidates

*Note: Half of the Democratic Party's candidates are "What-If Candidates". This means they did not announce any sort of official campaign or recieve any official convention votes. These include people like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and in the GOP, George W. Bush. These candidates cannot lawfully run for President under U.S. Constitutional law, but in this scenario are available to play.*

## Democrats

* Joe Biden (2020)
* Elizabeth Warren (2020)
* Bernie Sanders (2020)
* Pete Buttigeg (2020)
* Amy Klobuchar (2020)
* Tulsi Gabbard (2020)
* Tom Steyer (2020)
* Michael Bloomberg (2020)
* Michael Bennet (2020)
* Andrew Yang (2020)
* Deval Patrick (2020)
* John Delaney (2020)
* Cory Booker (2020)
* Marianne Williamson (2020)
* Julian Castro (2020)
* Kamala Harris (2020)
* Steve Bullock (2020)
* Wayne Messam (2020)
* Joe Sestak (2020)
* Robert O’Rourke (Beto) (2020)
* Tim Ryan (2020)
* Bill de Blasio (2020)
* Seth Moulton (2020)
* John Hickenlooper (2020)
* Kirsten Gillibrand (2020)
* Jay Inslee (2020)
* Mike Gravel (2020)
* Eric Swalwell (2020)
* Richard Ojeda (2020)

### What-If Candidate

These candidates did not run officially for President in 2020, but were either influential Democrats at that time or rumored to be mulling over a run.

* Terry McAuliffe (2020)
* Sherrod Brown (2020)
* Michael Avenatti (2020)
* Martin O'Malley (2020)
* Lincoln Chafee (2020)
* John Bel Edwards (2020)
* Eric Garcetti (2020)
* Martin Heinrich (2020)
* Howard Schultz (2020)
* Alan Grayson (2020)
* Hillary Clinton (2020)
* Al Franken (2020)
* Gavin Newsom (2020)
* Andrew Cuomo (2020)
* Joseph P. Kennedy III (2020)
* John Kerry (2020)
* Jeff Merkley (2020)
* Mark Zuckerberg (2020)
* Luis Guttierez (2020)
* Eric Holder (2020)
* Dwayne Johnson (2020)
* Stephen Colbert (2020)
* Jason Kander (2020)
* Barack Obama (2020)
* Bill Clinton (2020)
* Al Gore (2020)
* Mitch Landrieu (2020)
* Tim Kaine (2020)
* Alexandria Ocaiso-Cortez (2020)
* Stacy Abrams (2020)
* Andrew Gillum (2020)

## Republicans

* Donald Trump (2020)
* Bill Weld (2020)
* Joe Walsh (2020)
* Mark Sanford (2020)

### What-If Candidates

These candidates never ran, but were influential in one way or another in Republican politics at the time of the 2020 election.

* John Kasich (2020)
* Larry Hogan (2020)
* Ben Sasse (2020)
* Susan Collins (2020)
* Lisa Murkowski (2020)
* Mitt Romney (2020)
* Bob Corker (2020)
* Bill Kristol (2020)
* Lindsay Graham (2020)
* Rand Paul (2020)
* Ted Cruz (2020)
* Jeff Flake (2020)
* Marco Rubio (2020)
* Susana Martinez (2020)
* John Huntsman (2020)
* Tom Cotton (2020)
* Mike Pence (2020)
* Dwayne Johnson (2020)
* Mark Cuban (2020)
* Carly Fiorina (2020)
* Jeb Bush (2020)
* George W. Bush (2020)
* Nikki Haley (2020)
* Dan Crenshaw (2020)

## Libertarians

* Jo Jorgensen (2020)
* Lincoln Chafee (2020)
* Adam Kokesh (2020)
* John McAfee (2020)
* Arvin Vohra (2020)
* Vermin Supreme (2020)

### What-If Candidates

These candidates never ran for president, but were influential in one way or another in Libertarian politics in the 2020 Election.

* Austin Petersen (2020)
* Justin Amash (2020)

## Greens

* Howie Hawkins (2020)
* Ian Schlakman (2020)

### What-If Candidates

These candidates were influential in Green Party Politics at the time of the 2020 Election, but never amounted a run for the nomination for President

* Jill Stein (2020)
* Amaju Baraka (2020)
* Jesse Ventura (2020)

# Events

Because this is a full list of events which appear in the 2020 Election scenario, there is a dedicated page of events found below.

* List of Events in the 2020 Election (President Infinity)

# Did You Know?

* The Observer candidate is Benjamin Franklin. Inside the game files, the observer's photo is deliberately named "BenjaminFranklinL", thus why we say the Observer is as such.

# Further Reading

* 2020 US Presidential Election - General Page - Wikipedia
* 2020 Democratic Party Primaries - Wikipedia
* 2020 Republican Party Primaries - Wikipedia
* 2020 Libertarian Party Primaries - Wikipedia
* 2020 Green Party Primaries - Wikipedia