Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign

Donald Trump for President 2020
Campaign
Candidate
AffiliationRepublican Party
Status
  • Announced: June 18, 2019[a]
  • Secured nomination: March 17, 2020
  • Official nominee: August 24, 2020
  • Election day: November 3, 2020
  • Projected defeat: November 7, 2020[1][2][b]
  • Left office: January 20, 2021
HeadquartersArlington, Virginia[3]
Key people
ReceiptsUS$811,898,514.36[19] (October 14, 2020)
Slogan
Website
www.donaldjtrump.com
(archived - October 1, 2020)

Donald Trump, a member of the Republican Party, sought re-election in the 2020 United States presidential election. He was inaugurated as president of the United States on January 20, 2017, and filed for re-election with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on the same day.

Trump began his re-election campaign unusually early for an incumbent president, beginning to spend money on the re-election effort within weeks of his election. From February 2017 onward, Trump held more than 150 rallies and fundraisers for this campaign, visiting key electoral states. The campaign also raised funds and ran two nationwide advertising campaigns. Trump said in several stump speeches that the slogans for the 2020 race would be "Keep America Great" and "Promises Made, Promises Kept".[23][24][25] On November 7, 2018, Trump confirmed that Mike Pence would be his vice presidential running mate in 2020.[26]

Trump's re-election bid was ultimately unsuccessful; the Democratic Party ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election. This marked the first time since 1992 that an incumbent president lost reelection. Trump refused to accept the results; he and his allies made false and disproven claims of fraud, pressured elections officials, filed several unsuccessful lawsuits,[27][28][29] and directly attempted to overturn the results at the county, state, and federal level. This culminated in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, for which Trump was impeached a second time. The day after the attack, Trump stated that a "new administration" would be succeeding his, without mentioning president-elect Biden by name, in a video posted on Twitter.[30][31][32]


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