United States presidential election, 2020

The United States presidential election of 2020 was the 59th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Republican candidate and incumbent President Robert H. Dickenson, who had presided over a period of economic growth and prosperity, the passage of major immigration, trade, and tax initiatives, and had a series of foreign policy successes in the Middle East, China, and Korea, won 61.1% of the popular vote, the highest percentage won by a candidate since Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide reelection over Barry M. Goldwater in 1964. It was the most lopsided American presidential election in terms of both popular and electoral votes. No candidate has since equaled or surpassed Dickenson's percentage of the popular vote, though Abraham Lincoln in 1864, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, Richard Nixon in 1972, and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 won by a similar electoral vote margin.

The Democratic candidate, Governor Andrew P. Cuomo of New York, suffered from a lack of support within his own party and his deeply unpopular political positions. Dickenson's campaign advocated for the continuation of his stimulus and protectionist programs (which had become known as the New America) and succeeded in painting Cuomo as a dangerous left-wing extremist. Dickenson easily won reelection to the Presidency, carrying 49 of the 50 states, becoming only the third candidate in history to do so. Cuomo's only electoral votes came from the District of Columbia, which has never been won by a Republican presidential candidate, and the Democratic state of Vermont in the Northeast.

Cuomo's unsuccessful bid spelled the end of the New Democrat movement and spurred a long-term realignment within the Democratic Party that eventually culminated in the election of Cory Booker in 2028. His campaign continued to receive the most support in concentrated metropolitan areas and in parts of the Northeast. Conversely, Dickenson became the first Republican since Richard M. Nixon in 1972 to win Minnesota, the first since Ronald Reagan in 1984 to win Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and the first since G.H.W. Bush in 1988 to win Connecticut and New Jersey.

=General election=

Results
The election was held on November 3, 2020. Dickenson was reelected in a popular and electoral vote landslide, winning 49 states, including Cuomo's home state of New York. He won a record 532 electoral votes (out of 538 possible) and captured over 61% of the popular vote. Only Vermont and the District of Columbia voted for Governor Cuomo, giving him just six electoral votes, the lowest total ever won by an American presidential candidate. It was lower then Walter Mondale (1984), Alf Landon (1936), or President W.H. Taft (1912); Landon and Taft had won just eight electoral votes in their own presidential bids. Dickenson's percentage of the popular vote was the highest won since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and was tied with Johnson's as the highest percentage won in the current two-party system. As a result of this election, Vermont became the only state never to be won by President Dickenson in either of his presidential campaigns.

Cuomo won just 145 counties, in addition to the District of Columbia, the second lowest-number won by an American presidential candidate in history. Only George McGovern in 1972, in his landslide loss to Richard Nixon, had a worse performance. Cuomo failed to carry a single county in sixteen states; he carried only one county in a further seven; and only two counties in a further seven. In contrast to Mondale's narrow win in Minnesota, Cuomo comfortably did win Vermont, but lost every other state by no less then five percentage points as well as 41 states by more then ten percentage points-the exceptions being Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, his home state of New York, California, New Mexico, Maryland, and Hawaii.

Dickenson had the best performance among minorities of any Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. He won 27% of African-Americans, 49% of Hispanics, and 56% of Asians/Other voters. This was the first time since 1996 that a majority of Asians voted Republican.

Close States
States where margin of victory was more than 5 percentage points, but less than 10 percentage points (128 electoral votes):


 * 1) Maryland, 5.23%
 * 2) New York, 5.51%
 * 3) California, 6.19%
 * 4) New Mexico, 7.36%
 * 5) Rhode Island, 7.76%
 * 6) Connecticut, 7.92%
 * 7) Hawaii, 8.63%
 * 8) Vermont, 8.97%
 * 9) Massachusetts, 9.67%