2020 Presidential Election (Hatred and Hypocrisy)

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The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and the senior U.S. senator from West Virginia Joe Manchin defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump and incumbent vice president Mike Pence. The election took place against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic and related recession. It was the first election since 1992 in which the incumbent president failed to win a second term. The election saw the highest voter turnout by percentage since 1900, with each of the two main tickets receiving more than 71 million votes, surpassing Barack Obama's record of 69.5 million votes from 2008. Cuomo received more than 84 million votes, the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election.

In a competitive primary that featured the most candidates for any political party in the modern era of American politics, Cuomo secured the Democratic presidential nomination over his closest rival, Senator Elizabeth Warren. Trump secured re-nomination, getting a total of 2,549 delegates, one of the most in presidential primary history, to runner-up Bill Weld’s one delegate in the Republican primaries. Jo Jorgensen secured the Libertarian presidential nomination with Justin Amash as her running mate, and Howie Hawkins secured the Green presidential nomination with Dario Hunter as his running mate.

The central issues of the election included the public health and economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; civil unrest in reaction to the police murder of George Floyd and others; the Supreme Court following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett; and the future of the Affordable Care Act. Due to the ongoing pandemic, a record number of ballots were cast early and by mail. Many more registered Democrats voted by mail than registered 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 Cuomo and Manchin as the president-elect and vice president-elect until the morning of November 10, a week after the election. Major media networks project a state for a candidate once there is high statistical confidence that the outstanding vote would be unlikely to prevent the projected winner from ultimately winning that state.

Cuomo ultimately received the majority in the Electoral College with 398 electoral votes, while Trump received 140. Key to Cuomo's victory were his wins in the Democratic-leaning Great Lakes states of Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which Trump carried in 2016 and whose combined 52 electoral votes were enough to swing the election to either candidate. Cuomo also became the first Democrat to win the presidential election in Alaska since 1964, in Texas since 1976, in Georgia since 1992, in Arizona since 1996, in Nebraska's 2nd congressional district and North Carolina since 2008, and in Florida and Maine's 2nd congressional district since 2012.

Before, during, and after Election Day, Trump and numerous other Republicans attempted to subvert the election and overturn the results, falsely alleging widespread voter fraud and trying to influence the vote-counting process in swing states. Attorney General William Barr and officials in each of the 50 states found no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities in the election. Federal agencies overseeing election security said it was the most secure in American history. The Trump campaign and its allies, including Republican members of Congress, continued to engage in numerous attempts to overturn the results of the election by filing 106 lawsuits in several states (all of which were withdrawn or dismissed), spreading conspiracy theories alleging fraud, pressuring Republican state election officials and legislators to change results, pressuring the Department of Justice to declare the election "corrupt" and intervene, objecting to the Electoral College certification in Congress, and refusing to cooperate with the presidential transition of Andrew Cuomo. This culminated in a mob of Trump supporters clashing with a mob of Cuomo supporters at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, after Trump repeatedly said that he would never concede the election. On January 7, Trump acknowledged the incoming administration without mentioning Cuomo's name. Cuomo and Manchin were inaugurated on January 20, 2021.

## Results

### Close states

States where the margin of victory was under 1% (100 electoral votes; all won by Cuomo):

1. **Texas, 0.07% (7,920 votes) – 38 electoral votes**
2. **Iowa, 0.30% (5,073 votes) – 6 electoral votes**
3. **Georgia, 0.48% (24,000 votes) – 16 electoral votes**
4. **Arizona, 0.61% (20,663 votes) – 11 electoral votes**
5. **Florida, 0.71% (78,580 votes) – 29 electoral votes**

States where the margin of victory was between 1% and 5% (83 electoral votes; 54 won by Cuomo, 29 by Trump):

1. **Ohio, 1.18% (69,883 votes) – 18 electoral votes**
2. **Wisconsin, 1.23% (40,657 votes) – 10 electoral votes**
3. **North Carolina, 2.05% (113,259 votes) – 15 electoral votes**
4. **Indiana, 2.43% (73,707 votes) – 11 electoral votes**
5. **Alaska, 2.51% (9,025 votes) – 3 electoral votes**
6. **Pennsylvania, 3.86% (266,935 votes) – 20 electoral votes**
7. **Nevada, 4.19% (58,881 votes) – 6 electoral votes**

States where the margin of victory was between 5% and 10% (70 electoral votes; 26 won by Cuomo, 44 by Trump):

1. **Michigan, 5.48% (303,548 votes) – 16 electoral votes**
2. **Kansas, 5.64% (77,447 votes) – 6 electoral votes**
3. **Missouri, 6.29% (190,330 votes) – 10 electoral votes**
4. **Kentucky, 6.57% (140,383 votes) – 8 electoral votes**
5. **South Carolina, 7.08% (177,944 votes) – 9 electoral votes**
6. **Mississippi, 8.15% (107,072 votes) – 6 electoral votes**
7. **Nebraska, 8.56% (81,465 votes) – 5 electoral votes**
8. **Minnesota, 9.96% (326,406 votes) – 10 electoral votes**