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California is considered a safe blue state in presidential elections due to large concentrations of Democratic voters in urban regions such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego. As predicted, Biden easily carried California on election day, earning 63.5% of the vote and a margin of 29.2% over Trump.
Unlike previous election cycles, the primary elections were held on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020. [ 2 ] In addition to the U.S. presidential race , California voters elected all of California's seats to the House of Representatives , all of the seats of the State Assembly , and all odd-numbered seats of the State Senate .
In April 2020, Biden predicted that Trump would try to delay the election, saying he "is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can't be held". [ 178 ] [ 179 ] In May, Jared Kushner did not rule out delaying the election, saying "I'm not sure I can commit one way or the other". [ 180 ]
Since being admitted to the Union in 1850, California has participated in 43 presidential elections. A bellwether from 1888 to 1996 , voting for the losing candidates only three times in that span, California has become a reliable state for Democratic presidential candidates since 1992 .
In the 2020 election, California had 55 electoral votes in the Electoral College, the most of any state. Biden won by a wide margin, as was expected; however, California was one of six states where Trump received a larger percentage of the two-party vote than he did in 2016.
Audit only covers ballots counted through election night. Elections in California are held to fill various local, state and federal seats. In California, regular elections are held every even year (such as 2006 and 2008); however, some seats have terms of office that are longer than two years, so not every seat is on the ballot in every election.
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