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In 2020, the Republican Party decided not to write a platform for that presidential election cycle; [153] instead, the party simply expressing its support for Donald Trump's agenda, [154] and criticizing "the media" for biased reporting. [155] This was cited by critics as an example of how the Republican Party "became a cult of personality ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, and vice president Mike Pence. [9]
[42] [43] The Republican Party also re-nominated Vice President Mike Pence as Trump's running mate for the 2020 election. Biden became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee in early April 2020 after Bernie Sanders withdrew from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries; Biden later chose Kamala Harris as his running mate shortly ...
August 3–15: Delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention conduct official convention business virtually, primarily online voting of both the party's platform and the formal presidential nomination. They officially choose Biden for their presidential nominee.
This page describes the stances held by Democratic candidates in the 2020 United States presidential election on a variety of policy issues (e. g., domestic and foreign issues). Only candidates still in the race during the 2020 Iowa caucuses are included.
The 2020 Democratic Party platform endorsed the principle that no one should face discrimination based on their gender identity and sexual orientation. [14] It supports the Equality Act (United States) , anti-bullying prevention for LGBT youth, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 , and the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes ...
Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination on March 17, 2020, defeating several longshot candidates, most notably former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld. Kamala Harris , the state's junior U.S. senator, was among the Democratic candidates declared until she dropped out on December 3, 2019.
Senator Kamala Harris was announced as former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate on August 11, 2020. When inaugurated, Harris will be the first woman, first African-American, and first Asian-American vice president of the United States, as well as the second person with non-European ancestry (after Herbert Hoover's vice-president Charles Curtis).