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, Governor Steve Bullock of Montana. Bullock 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), by the failures of U.S. foreign policy with regards Syria, Iran, and North Korea, and by continuing questions over his ethics and his foreign connections. Bullock, 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, Bullock won the state of Alaska for the Democrats, for only the second time in its history, as well as Nebraska (for the first time since 1964), Kansas (for the first time since 1964), and South Dakota (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 Bullock a definitive mandate as he entered office.

=General election=