It would be a fitting moment for the man who took roughly 8,000 round trips on that same route during his time as Senator and Vice-President earning him the nickname "Amtrak Joe.". ", "From Debate Stage, Trump Declines To Denounce White Supremacy", "Trump doesn't denounce white supremacists and militias during debate", "Did Trump 'Refuse to Condemn' White Supremacists at Debate? Except in the states of Maine and Nebraska if a candidate receives the majority of the votes from the people of a state then the candidate will receive all electoral votes of that state. $600 stimulus check but lower unemployment benefits: what’s in the new White House proposal? After the interruption, while leaders of both parties, including Vice President Pence, Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader McConnell, all denounced the disruption and called on lawmakers to confirm the results, several Republicans pressed forward with their challenges, though they were unsuccessful in changing any of the electoral college results, and the official vote was certified in the early morning hours of January 7. Who is Xavier Becerra, Biden’s pick for Health and Human Services? [431][432], Early in the morning on November 4, with vote counts still going on in many states, Trump claimed that he had won. That margin is just over half the margin in 2016 while using the same logic, Clinton would need to win Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, which were states that Biden won. The joint session completed its work shortly before 4:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 7, declaring Biden the winner. Trump also declared victory in North Carolina and Georgia, despite many ballots being uncounted. Results of US Election 2020. "[438][439], Although all major media outlets called the election for Biden on November 7, the head of the General Services Administration (GSA), Trump appointee Emily W. Murphy, refused for over two weeks to certify Biden as the president-elect. [433] For weeks after the networks had called the election for Biden, Trump refused to acknowledge that Biden had won. [158][159] On October 26, the U.S. [315][316][317] The task force consisted of long-term observers from the ODIHR office (led by former Polish diplomat Urszula Gacek) deployed to 28 states from September on and covering 15 states on election day, and a group of European lawmakers acting as short-term observers (led by German parliamentarian Michael Georg Link), reporting from Maryland, Virginia, California, Nevada, Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, and D.C.[315][317] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was scaled down to a "limited election observation mission" from the originally planned 100 long-term observers and 400 short-term observers.[315]. Or at Least to the Debate", "CNN Poll: Biden wins final presidential debate", "This Was a Pretty Good Debate. This came before the Thanksgiving surge of cases and before what is expected to be a dangerous festive period. [495], As vice president, Pence was due to preside over the January 6, 2021, congressional session to count the electoral votes, which is normally a non-controversial, ceremonial event. In some states, some presidential candidates were listed with a different or no vice presidential candidate. [477] During the recount, Milwaukee County election commissioner Tim Posnanski stated that several Republican observers were breaking rules by posing as independents. The Maine Republican Party filed signatures for a veto referendum and preclude the use of RCV for the 2020 election, but Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap found there were insufficient valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. [215] It was also one of the fastest timelines from nomination to confirmations in U.S. [381] Meanwhile, a state judge in Michigan dismissed the Trump campaign's lawsuit requesting a pause in vote-counting to allow access to observers, as the judge noted that vote-counting had already finished in Michigan. [345] Many voters were turned off by Trump's racist language ("China virus" and "kung flu") but, according to Vox reporter Terry Nguyen, some Vietnamese voters (and especially elderly, South Vietnamese migrants who populated coastal centers in the 1970s) appreciated his strong anti-China stance. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn't Buy It", "What if Trump won't accept 2020 defeat? [128][129][130] Later that day, the President was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with a low grade fever, where he was reported to have received an experimental antibody treatment. The move could speed up the time frame for US regulatory clearance, because they will need two months of follow-up safety data from 10,000 fewer people in order to meet US Food and Drug Administration guidelines. [265], Trump claimed credit for the consistent economic expansion of his presidency's first three years, with the stock market at its longest growth period in history, and unemployment at a fifty-year low. ", "A fly sat atop Mike Pence's head for two minutes during the V.P. [384] Due to the slim margin between Biden and Trump in the state, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on November 6 that a recount would be held in Georgia. Speaking to the media in a virtual press conference ahead of pre-season, Popovich aimed his anger at the 'fibre of the populus'. In the early hours of November 4th, 2020, Democratic candidate Joe Biden received several major âvote spikesâ that substantially â and decisively â improved his electoral position in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. New study reveals alcohol-free hand gels kill coronavirus, Second stimulus check update: US coronavirus relief bill. [426], On December 9, Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the United States, asking the court to overturn the results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Deaths Near 100,000, An Incalculable Loss, Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2020_United_States_presidential_election&oldid=1011316801, History of the United States (2008âpresent), November 2020 events in the United States, Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Pages using right with no input arguments, Srpskohrvatski / ÑÑпÑÐºÐ¾Ñ ÑваÑÑки, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, At-large results (for states that split electoral votes), Lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election, This page was last edited on 10 March 2021, at 06:55. The chairman of the judiciary subcommittee in Georgia that examined evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, released a scathing 15-page report calling the results of the 2020 election, âuntrustworthyâ and recommending that the certification of the results be rescinded. Pre- and post-election surveys showed Biden winning Latino of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican,[338] and Spanish heritage,[339] while Trump carried Latinos of Cuban heritage. [467], On November 11, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ordered a statewide hand recount of the vote in addition to the normal audit process. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. Police in Minneapolis arrested more than 600 demonstrators for blocking traffic on an interstate highway. [65] Therefore, the party that wins the 2020 presidential election could also win a significant advantage in drawing new Congressional and state legislative districts that would stay in effect until the 2032 elections. An interim report published by the OSCE shortly before the election noted that many ODIHR interlocutors "expressed grave concerns about the risk of legitimacy of the elections being questioned due to the incumbent President's repeated allegations of a fraudulent election process, and postal vote in particular. In some states, some candidates were listed with a different or additional party, a label, or as, Following the cancellation of the planned second debate on October 9, both candidates held separate but simultaneous televised. Biden win certified by Congress after chaotic day. The election saw the highest voter turnout as a percentage of eligible voters since 1900, with each of the two main tickets receiving more than 74 million votes, surpassing Barack Obama's record of 69.5 million votes from 2008. [161][162], Government officials and American corporate security officers braced for a repeat of 2016's election infrastructure hacking and similar twenty-first century attacks, and in fact conducted what were characterized as pre-emptive counter-strikes on botnet infrastructure which might be used in large-scale coordination of hacking,[163] and some incidents earlier in the year appeared to foreshadow such possibilities. He retired from the armed services in 2016, On announcing the nominee, Biden said of Austin: “Throughout his lifetime of dedicated service — and in the many hours we’ve spent together in the White House Situation Room and with our troops overseas — Gen. Austin has demonstrated exemplary leadership, character and command.”. [462] He repeatedly spoke to the Republican governor of Georgia and the secretary of state, demanding that they reverse their state's election results, threatening them with political retaliation when they did not, strongly criticizing them in speeches and tweets, and demanding that the governor resign. Biden's plan involves adding a public option to the American healthcare system,[271] and the restoration of the individual mandate to buy health care which was removed from the Affordable Care Act by the 2017 tax cut bill[272] as well as restoring funding for Planned Parenthood. Summary Report November 3, 2020 Printed: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:24 AM Data Refreshed: 11/20/2020 9:19 AM Page 4 of 11 MICHAEL I. MANN 217 35.99% Stockton Boro Common Council 1 of 1 precincts counted 100.00% ( Vote For 2 ) JOHN ALBANESE 6,620 32.20% ALAN HARWICK 3,649 17.75% RENE RAO 3,957 19.25% JONATHAN HELLER 6,334 30.81% Total 20,560 In some states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, Republican-controlled legislatures prohibited mail-in ballots from being counted before Election Day, and once those ballots were counted they generally favored Biden, at least in part because Trump had for months raised concerns about mail-in ballots, causing those ballots to favor Biden even more. [151][152] China and some government-linked Chinese individuals have been accused of interfering in the election to support the candidacy of both Biden and Trump,[153] though whether it is actually doing so is disputed among the intelligence community. [32][464] On January 4, 2021, Democratic congressional leaders, believing Trump "engaged in solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit, a number of election crimes", requested the FBI to investigate the incident. However, this overall tendency overlooks differences between subgroups: Korean Americans, Japanese Americans, Indian Americans, and Chinese Americans favored Biden by higher margins overall compared to Vietnamese Americans and Filipino Americans. [115] The number of polling places was often greatly reduced due to a shortage of election workers able or willing to work during the pandemic. There are concerns that a particularly intense geomagnetic storm could cause serious damage to these systems. [87], The 2020 Libertarian National Convention was originally scheduled to be held in Austin, Texas, over Memorial Day weekend from May 22 to 25,[88][89] but all reservations at the JW Marriott Downtown Austin for the convention were cancelled on April 26 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However this did not deter SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who tweeted his optimism on the overall results of the flight test: “Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point!”. 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Trump has been accused of inciting the violence with his rhetoric,[502] an accusation that was reinforced with an article of impeachment filed on January 13 for "incitement of insurrection". ", "Colombian politicians shouldn't take sides in US election", "US embassy warns Colombian politicians not to get involved in US elections", "US probing whether Jho Low secretly made donation to Trump's 2020 re-election campaign", "The bizarre story of 1MDB, the Goldman Sachs-backed Malaysian fund that turned into one of the biggest scandals in financial history", "Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election, and Finds the U.S. [504][505][506], On January 11, 2021, Representative Cori Bush filed a resolution calling for the possible expulsion of more than 100 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted against certifying results of the presidential election and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said the Senate Ethics Committee "must consider the expulsion, or censure and punishment, of Sens. ", "Latest: Trump's and Biden's environmental policy promises and actions", "It's (nearly) official: Biden vs. Trump. 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 margins in favor of Biden in three states (Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona) totaled around 43,000. [302] This would have led to a contingent election, in which the president is chosen by the House of Representatives. "[200] The Trump campaign and the Republican Party both failed to produce any evidence of vote-by-mail fraud after being ordered by a federal judge to do so. [410], Days after Biden had been declared the winner, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany asserted without evidence that the Democratic Party was welcoming fraud and illegal voting. [43] The presidential electors formally cast their votes for president and vice president on December 14,[44][45] and their votes were officially counted by Congress on January 6â7, 2021, before and after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. But Trump continues to publically rally against the outcome, now roping in Republican Senator Ted Cruz to help his flailing legal strategy. [411] Republican former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich stated on Fox News, "I think that it is a corrupt, stolen election. J&J said it continues to expect an interim data readout in late January and could apply for US emergency use authorization (EUA) in February. Precincts Reported: 0 of 52 (0.00%) Voters Cast: 85,100 of 0 (N/A) Presidential Electors (Vote for 1) NON . For an AG to contest the result in another state is unprecedented, and attempting to involve Cruz would appear to be another desperate move by Trump. When Dayna Lazarus a social justice activist tried to read a statement opposing a transportation project at a transportation town hall meeting in 2017 she was escorted out, with the argument that she was off-topic for a meeting about transportation. [16][17][18], The election saw a record number of ballots cast early and by mail due to the ongoing pandemic. The Supreme Court of Nevada rejected an appeal late on Tuesday from President Donald Trump’s campaign to overturn the election results in the state, affirming President-elect Joe Biden’s win in one of the battleground states that gave him overall victory. [357], Although polls generally predicted the Biden victory, the national polls overestimated him by 3 to 4 points, and some state polling was even further from the actual result and greater than 2016's error of around 1 to 2 points. [443] Legal experts, including New York University law professor Richard Pildes, have said that such a strategy would run into numerous legal and political problems, noting that in various battleground states, Democratic Party members elected to statewide offices would thwart such efforts,[444] and ultimately Congress likely would not accept the votes of legislatively appointed electors over those appointed based on the election results. [12] Federal agencies overseeing election security said it was the most secure in American history. A summary document that was made public today suggests that the following provisions will be included: - Unemployment insurance programs set to expire at the end of the month will be extended for 16 weeks, providing an additional $300 per week from the end of December into April, - Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a loan program for small businesses, is to be extended with a simplified loan forgiveness procedure, - Eviction moratorium will be extended to the end of January, while student loan forbearance provisions will last to the end of April, - There is also provision for extra funds for health-care and education providers, vaccine development and distribution, testing and tracing and food assistance. The media, although sharply polarized, provided comprehensive coverage of the campaign and made efforts to provide accurate information on the organization of elections. The president spread mixed messages on the value of wearing face masks as protection, including criticizing Biden and reporters for wearing them, but has also encouraged their use at times. [308][309][310][311][312][313] That evening, Biden and Harris gave victory speeches in Wilmington, Delaware. ", "What could happen if Donald Trump rejects electoral defeat? [191] The Postal Service sent a letter to multiple states in July 2020, warning that the service would not be able to meet the state's deadlines for requesting and casting last-minute absentee ballots. “We also are not convinced that the district court erred in applying a burden of proof by clear and convincing evidence, as supported by the cases cited in the district court’s order,” Nevada’s Supreme Court said in its judgement. For the subsequent 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.