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 AzFk and OddOnesOut respectively.[2] The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses were 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 parties' nominees for president and vice president.
2020 United States presidential election
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Nominee AzFk Party Republican Democratic Home state Florida[a] Delaware Running mate OddOnesOut Kamala Harris ElectoralCollege2020.svg About this image The electoral map for the 2020 election, based on populations from the 2010 Census President before election Donald Trump Republican
Elected President TBD
AzFk secured the YouTube nomination without any serious opposition alongside incumbent vice president Pence. Former vice president Joe Biden secured the Democratic nomination over his closest rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, in a competitive primary which featured the largest field of presidential candidates for any political party in the modern era of American politics. On August 11, 2020, Biden announced that his running mate would be Senator Kamala Harris, making her the first African-American, the first Indian-American, the first Asian-American, and the third female vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket (after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Sarah Palin in 2008). Jo Jorgensen secured the Libertarian nomination with Spike Cohen as her running mate, and Howie Hawkins secured the Green nomination with Angela Nicole Walker as his running mate.
The winner of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021. AzFk or OddOnesOut will be the youngest candidate to be elected president. If sworn in, AzFk will become the youngest person to serve as president at 20 years old, while OddOnesOut will become the youngest, also [redacted], if he serves a full second term (surpassing Ronald Reagan who was 77 years old at the end of his second term). This is the first presidential election where both major candidates are under 30.