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For prior events, see Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (2017–2019) and Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (January–October 2020). President Donald Trump of the Republican Party, who was elected in 2016, was seeking reelection to a second term, against former vice president Joe Biden of the ...
The timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election has been split into three parts for convenience: Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (2017–2019) Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (January–October 2020) Timeline of the 2020 United States presidential election (November 2020–January 2021)
This is the second time a president has been impeached during his first term while running for a second term. [ 74 ] [ i ] Trump continued to hold campaign rallies during the impeachment. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] This is also the first time since the modern presidential primaries were established in 1911 that a president has been subjected to impeachment ...
The 2000 and 2020 races for the White House saw the longest delays in declaring a winner over the last 25 years. In 2000, a famously close race and legal challenges dragged out the process. In ...
The U.S. presidential election of 2020 was the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election, and was held to fill a term lasting from January 20, 2021, to January 20, 2025. By November 7, all major media organizations had projected that former vice president Joe Biden , the candidate of the Democratic Party , had defeated incumbent Republican ...
The President of the United States is elected to a four-year term. Each of the 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms. The 100 members in the United States Senate are elected to six-year terms, with one-third of them being renewed every two years.
March 5: Former mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City announces that, after exploring the possibility, he will not run for president in 2020. [38] March 10: Presidential Forum at South by Southwest, [39] the first so-called "cattle call" event of the cycle.
President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, who previously served as Vice President under President Barack Obama. He became the first president to lose the popular vote in both elections contested, as well as the first president since George H. W. Bush 's loss in 1992 to be defeated after his single term.