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2020 Alaska Democratic presidential primary final results [104] Candidate Votes % Delegates [105] Joe Biden: 10,834 54.83 8 Bernie Sanders (withdrawn) 8,755 44.31 7 Inactive votes [dm] 170 0.86 Total 19,759 100% 15
Biden became the first Democratic candidate since Bill Clinton, and the third ever Democratic candidate, [c] to win the nomination without carrying either Iowa or New Hampshire, the first two states on the primary/caucus calendar. The primaries were initially scheduled to go through June 6.
Following several recounts and a recanvass, Buttigieg retained his lead in state delegate equivalents, and the Iowa Democratic Party declared him the official winner, making him the first openly gay candidate of a major political party to win a presidential primary. Sanders won a plurality of first-alignment and final-alignment votes. [143]
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, and vice president Mike Pence. [9]
In August 2018, the Democratic National Committee voted to disallow superdelegates from voting on the first ballot of the nominating process, beginning with the 2020 election. This required a candidate to win a majority of pledged delegates from the assorted primary elections in order to win the party's nomination.
As of June 8, 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden became the presumptive presidential nominee by amassing enough delegates to secure the nomination. The nomination was made official at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin .
The California primary formed an unusual part of Super Tuesday as it had historically departed from its typical June date. It was a semi-closed primary, with the state awarding 494 delegates towards the 2020 Democratic National Convention, of which 415 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.
Polling averages consistently showed Biden with a large lead in the 2020 Democratic primary, which he only briefly relinquished before going on to win the presidential nomination.