2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
The 2020 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. District of Columbia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. The  District of Columbia has three electoral votes in the Electoral College. Prior to the election, Biden was virtually certain to win D.C. The nation's capital is heavily Democratic and has voted for the Democratic nominee for president by extremely large margins in every election it has participated in. As has happened in every election since 1961, when the District was granted electors under the Twenty-third Amendment, the Democratic nominee received a higher vote share in the District of Columbia than in any other jurisdiction. Biden's 86.75 point margin of victory was virtually identical to that secured by  Hillary Clinton in 2016. Primary elections. The District of Columbia held primary elections on June 2, 2020. Republican primary. Donald Trump ran unopposed in the Republican primary, and thus received all of the district's 19 delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention.