us election 2020

The 2020 United States presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020. It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will vote on December 14, 2020, to either elect a new president and vice president or reelect the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence respectively. The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses are being held from February to August 2020. This nominating process is an indirect election, where voters cast ballots selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's nominees for president and vice president. The election will occur simultaneously alongside elections for the House of Representatives, Senate, and various state and local-level elections.
Donald Trump, the 45th and incumbent president, has launched a re-election campaign for the Republican primaries; several state Republican Party organizations have cancelled their primaries in a show of support for his candidacy. Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee on March 17, 2020, after securing a majority of pledged delegates. 29 major candidates launched campaigns for the Democratic nomination, which became the largest field of candidates for any political party in the post-reform period of American politics.
Former Vice President Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee when Senator Bernie Sanders, the last other major candidate in the Democratic primary, suspended his campaign on April 8, 2020. In early June, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates to gain the nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
The Libertarian Party nominated professor Jo Jorgensen as its candidate during an online convention on May 23, 2020, making Jorgensen the first female presidential candidate in Libertarian Party history.Biden and Trump are respectively the oldest and second-oldest major party presumptive nominees in U.S. history; and if Biden is elected and inaugurated, he will also become the oldest serving president. Further, either major candidate, should they win, would be the first person from their respective home state to win a presidential election, with Biden being the first Delawarean and Trump, the first Floridian (having changed his residency to Florida from New York, his residence at the time of his 2016 victory, the previous year).
The winner of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021.

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