2020 Presidential Election (President Morrison)

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The **2020 United States presidential election** was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020. The Democratic ticket of Junior Senator from Texas Sabrina Morrison and Governor of Michigan Toby Anderson defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent President Donald Trump and incumbent Vice President Mike Pence.

In a competitive primary that featured the most candidates for any political party in the modern era of American politics, Morrison secured the Democratic nomination over her closest rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. Afterwards, she named Michigan Governor Anderson as her running mate. Jo Jorgensen secured the Libertarian nomination with Spike Cohen as her running mate, and Howie Hawkins secured the Green nomination with Angela Nicole Walker 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; Gun Control, LGBTQ+ Rights, 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 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 Morrison and Anderson as the president-elect and vice president-elect until the afternoon of November 6, two and a half days 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.

Morrison ultimately received the majority in the Electoral College with 359 electoral votes, while Trump received 179. Morrison became the first female to win a Presidential Election and the youngest President in history, along with the youngest to be elected. She was also the first Democrat to win the presidential election in Georgia since 1992, Arizona since 1996, and Texas since 1976, and the first candidate to win nationally without Ohio since 1960, without Iowa since 1976, and without Florida since 1992, effectively puncturing the former's bellwether status. This is the first election since 1880 in which both major party candidates won the same number of states, and the first since 1948 in which a single party won the popular vote four times in a row.

Before, during, and after Election Day, Trump and numerous 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 63 lawsuits in several states (all of which were withdrawn or dismissed), spreading conspiracy theories alleging fraud, pressuring Republican state election officials (including, notably, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in a phone call that later became widely publicized) 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 Sabrina Morrison. This culminated in a mob of Trump supporters attacking the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, after Trump repeatedly said that he would never concede the election. However, on January 7, one day after the violent Capitol attack and two months after Morrison's victory was declared, Trump acknowledged the incoming administration without mentioning Morrison's name in a video posted to Twitter. Morrison and Anderson were inaugurated on January 20, 2021.