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The electoral map for the 2020 election, based on populations from the 2010 Census. The 2020 election will be the last election to use the data from the 2010 Census; the subsequent two elections will use information from the as yet-to-be-collected 2020 United States Census.
Incumbent President

Donald Trump
Republican



The United States presidential election of 2020, scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020, will be the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will either elect a new president and vice president through the electoral college or re-elect the incumbents. The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses are likely to be held during the first six months of 2020. This nominating process is also 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 presidential nominee.

President Donald Trump of the Republican Party, who was elected in 2016, will be eligible to seek re-election. The winner of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021.

Background

Procedure

Further information: United States presidential election § Procedure

Article Two of the United States Constitution states that for a person to be elected and serve as President of the United States the individual must be a natural-born citizen of the United States, at least 35 years old and a United States resident for at least 14 years. Candidates for the presidency typically seek the nomination of one of the various political parties of the United States, in which case each party develops a method (such as a primary election) to choose the candidate the party deems best suited to run for the position. The primary elections are usually indirect elections where voters cast ballots for a slate of party delegates pledged to a particular candidate. The party's delegates then officially nominate a candidate to run on the party's behalf. The general election in November is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots for a slate of members of the Electoral College; these electors then directly elect the President and Vice President.[1] The Twenty-second Amendment to the Constitution limits a President to two terms. This prohibits former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama from running in this election.

The age group of what will then be persons in the 18 to 45-year-old bracket is expected to represent 40 percent of the United States' eligible voters in 2020.[2]

Simultaneous elections

The presidential election will occur at the same time as elections to the Senate and the House of Representatives. Several states will also hold state gubernatorial and state legislative elections. Following the election, the United States House will redistribute the seats among the 50 states based on the results of the 2020 United States Census, and the states will conduct a redistricting of Congressional and state legislative districts. In most states, the governor and the state legislature conduct the redistricting (although some states have redistricting commissions), and often a party that wins a presidential election experiences a coattail effect that also helps other candidates of that party win election.[3] Therefore, the party that wins the 2020 presidential election could also win a significant advantage in the drawing of new Congressional and state legislative districts that would stay in effect until the 2032 elections.[4]

Advantage of incumbency

An incumbent president seeking re-election usually faces no significant opposition during their respective party's primaries, especially if they are still popular. For Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, for example, their respective paths to nomination became uneventful and the races become merely pro forma; all four then went on to win a second presidential term. Serious challenges are rare, but then generally presage failure to win the general election in the fall. During the 1976 Republican Party primaries, then-former California Governor Reagan carried 23 states while running against incumbent President Gerald Ford; Ford then went on to lose the presidential election to Jimmy Carter, albeit carrying more states. Senator Ted Kennedy then carried 12 states while running against Carter during the 1980 Democratic Party primaries; Reagan then defeated Carter in the fall of 1980. Pat Buchanan captured a decent percentage of a protest vote against George H. W. Bush during the 1992 Republican primaries, but only received a handful of delegates; Bush too subsequently went on to lose in the general election to Clinton.

Republican Party

Further information: Republican Party (United States)

Donald Trump is eligible to run for re-election and has implied that he intends to do so.[5] His reelection campaign is ongoing. On January 20, 2017 at 5:11 PM, he submitted a letter as a substitute of FEC Form 2, for which he had reached the legal threshold for filing, in compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act.[6]

Presumptive incumbents

Name Born Current or previous positions State

Donald Trump 		June 14, 1946
(age 78)
New York City, New York 		President of the United States since 2017
Candidate for President in 2000
New York

Mike Pence 		June 7, 1959
(age 65)
Columbus, Indiana 		Vice President of the United States since 2017
Governor of Indiana 2013–2017
U.S. Representative 2001–2013
Republican nominee for U.S. Representative in 1988 and 1990
Indiana

Below are other Republican candidates that may or will run in 2020:

Declared candidates

Name Born Current or previous positions State Announced Ref

Jack Fellure 		October 3, 1931
(age 93)
Midkiff, West Virginia 		Prohibition nominee for President in 2012
Candidate for President 1988–2008 and 2016
West Virginia 		November 9, 2016 [7]

Potential convention sites

Bids for the National Convention will be solicited in the fall of 2017, with finalists being announced early the following spring. The winning bid will be revealed in the summer of 2018.

Democratic Party

Further information: Democratic Party (United States)

Declared major candidates

The candidates in this section have held public office and/or been included in a minimum of five independent national polls.

Name Born Current or previous positions State Announced Ref

John Delaney 		April 16, 1963
(age 61)
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey 		U.S. Representative from Maryland since 2013
Maryland 		July 28, 2017
(Campaign) 		[10][11]

Declared minor candidates

Name Born Current or previous positions State Announced Ref

Rocky De La Fuente 		October 10, 1954
(age 70)
San Diego, California 		American Delta and Reform
nominee for President in 2016
Candidate for Mayor of New York City in 2017
Candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2016
New York 		January 9, 2017 [12]

Geoffrey Fieger 		December 23, 1950
(age 73)
Detroit, Michigan 		Democratic nominee for
Governor of Michigan in 1998
Michigan 		January 13, 2017 [13]

Individuals who have publicly expressed interest

Individuals in this section have expressed an interest in running for President within the last six months.

Potential convention sites

Bids for the National Convention will be solicited in the fall of 2017, with finalists being announced early the following spring. The winning bid will be revealed in the summer of 2018.

Third-party, independent, and unaffiliated candidates

Libertarian Party

Further information: Libertarian Party (United States)

Declared candidates

Name Born Current or previous positions State Announced Ref

Adam Kokesh 		February 1, 1982
(age 42)
San Francisco, California 		Political activist
Arizona 		July 22, 2013 [38]

Individuals who have publicly expressed interest

Individuals in this section have expressed an interest in running for President within the last six months.

Green Party

Further information: Green Party of the United States

Individuals who have publicly expressed interest

Individuals in this section have expressed an interest in running for President within the last six months.

Independent or unaffiliated

Declared candidates

Name Born Current or previous positions State Announced Ref

Jeremy Gable 		May 10, 1982
(age 42)
Lakenheath, England 		Playwright
Pennsylvania 		May 11, 2015 [42]

Dan Rattiner 		1939
(age Error: Need valid year, month, day)
New York City, New York 		Journalist
Newspaper publisher
New York 		April 24, 2015 [43]

Kanye West 		June 8, 1977
(age 47)
Atlanta, Georgia 		Rapper
Songwriter
Record producer
Fashion designer
Entrepreneur
California 		August 30, 2015 [44]

Individuals who have publicly expressed interest

Individuals in this section have expressed an interest in running for President within the last six months.

See also

Notes

References

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