United States presidential election, 2020 (Trump Loses)

The United States presidential election of 2020 was the 59th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The contest took place between the Republican candidate and incumbent President, Donald J. Trump, and his Democratic challenger, centrist Governor William Johannson of Minnesota. Johannson united all wings of his party, avoided divisive cultural issues, and selected a moderate Southern Democrat, Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, as his running mate. Trump, on his part, was dogged by his low approval ratings, by the extreme unpopularity of the American Health Care Act (which had cost the Republican Party its majority in the U.S. House in 2018), by the failures of U.S. foreign policy with regards to Syria, Iran, and North Korea, by the state bailout crisis of 2019-20 and the ensuing economic recession, and by continuing questions over his ethics and his foreign connections. Johannson, consequently, won by a landslide in both the popular and electoral vote, obtaining 61.1% of the popular vote, tied with Lyndon Johnson's record in 1964 as the highest percentage won by any candidate in history.

Trump's unsuccessful bid spelled an end to the Reagan Era in American politics and triggered a long-term realignment within the Republican Party which would ultimately culminate in the victory of Tim Scott in the election of 2032. His campaign continued to receive considerable support from traditional Republican strongholds in the South and West. Conversely, Johannson won the state of Alaska for the Democrats, for only the second time in its history, as well as Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho, and Utah (all for the first time since 1964), along with a number of other Southern and Western states which had not gone Democratic since the 1990s. Moreover, the Democrats expanded their majority in the U.S. House and won control of the U.S. Senate, thereby giving Johannson a definitive mandate as he entered office.

=General election=

Results
The election was held on November 3, 2020. Johannson beat Trump in the general election, winning over 61% of the popular vote, tied with Lyndon B. Johnson's record in 1964 as the highest percentage of the popular vote won, since the popular vote first became widespread in 1824. In the end, Trump won only six traditionally Republican states in the South and West-Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and West Virginia, along with Nebraska's 3rd congressional district, where he had obtained his greatest margins of victory over Hillary Clinton four years earlier. Johannson captured 515 electoral votes (out of 535 possible), carrying 44 states and the District of Columbia. This election saw the worst Republican performance since Barry Goldwater's landslide defeat fifty-six years earlier. Trump's 23 electoral votes, moreover, were the fewest for a Republican presidential candidate since Alf Landon earned only eight against Franklin D. Roosevelt in his landslide reelection of 1936.

The election was one of several electoral milestones, for many states voted Democratic for the first time in decades. Johannson became only the second Democrat in history (following Johnson), to win the state of Alaska. And he was the first since Johnson to win the states of Idaho, Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. He became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas, the first since Bill Clinton in 1992 to win Georgia and Montana, and the first since Clinton in 1996 to win Arizona, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana. He was also only the second Democrat since Johnson to win Indiana (following Barack Obama) and the second since Carter (following Obama) to win North Carolina.



Of the 3,144 counties, independent cities, and districts making returns, Johannson won in 2,378 (75.83%) while Trump carried 766 (24.36%).



The Johannson landslide defeated many conservative Republican congressmen, giving him a majority that could enact his legislation.

Close states
Margin of victory less than 1% (8 electoral votes):
 * 1) Kentucky, 0.99%

Margin of victory less than 5% (13 electoral votes):
 * 1) Idaho, 1.83%
 * 2) Alabama, 2.30%

Margin of victory over 5%, but less than 10% (31 electoral votes):
 * 1) Nebraska, 5.21%
 * 2) Tennessee, 7.36%
 * 3) South Dakota, 8.25%
 * 4) Kansas, 9.03%
 * 5) Utah, 9.73%