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The 2020 presidential campaign of Jay Inslee began on March 1, 2019, when Inslee – the incumbent Governor of Washington – announced that he would be running for the Democratic nomination. He had been chair of the Democratic Governors Association for the 2018 election cycle and served as a co-chair of the United States Climate Alliance . [ 3 ]
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. As the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's ...
The 2020 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2020. It followed a top-two primary held on August 4. Incumbent Governor Jay Inslee , the Democratic candidate, defeated Loren Culp, the Republican candidate by a wide margin.
This is the electoral history of Jay Inslee, the 23rd Governor of Washington since 2013. He previously served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from Washington's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 1995 and from Washington's 1st congressional ...
Biden also became the candidate with the highest vote total in the state's history, with 2,369,612 votes. [4] This was the first time since 1988 that Washington voted to the left of Illinois. The Seattle metropolitan area, home to almost two-thirds of the state's population, is overwhelmingly Democratic.
This was the first time since 1948 that Democrats won the popular vote in four elections in a row. Biden was the second former vice president (after Richard Nixon in 1968) to win the presidency, as well as the first vice president since George H. W. Bush in 1988 to be elected president. [329]
Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes and 51.3% of the national popular vote, compared to Trump's 232 electoral votes and 46.8% of the popular vote. Biden won every state that 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election , as well as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and ...
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)