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The United States presidential election of 2020 will be the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election, scheduled to take place on November 3, 2020. Voters will select electors who in turn will cast their vote for President and Vice-President.

The incumbent, President is eligible to run for re-election and affirmed his intention on April 16, 2019. He had filed the necessary FEC paperwork only a few hours after his first term began on January 20, 2017. He secured the Republican nomination on July 2, 2020 with no serious opposition.

Facebook founder and CEO was the first Democrat to declare his candidacy on May 8, 2018. The Democratic Party primaries contained four other major candidates: Massachusetts Senator, Colorado Governor , California Governor , and Ohio Congressman. The first primary, held in Iowa, was won by Elizabeth Warren and she was the clear frontrunner for the starting phases of the campaign. Her lead began to decline and she lost crucial states during Super Tuesday on March 1 to Mark Zuckerberg, who at the time, was not considered a significant contender. By April, the race had essentially come down to Warren and Zuckerberg, the latter of whom winning the Utah, Idaho, and Wisconsin primaries. He also won the Democrats Abroad primary. As the convention drew closer, neither candidate had enough delegates to be declared the presumptive nominee and it came down to the New Jersey primary, which Zuckerberg won narrowly with 50.6% of the vote. At the Democratic convention on July 8, 2020, Zuckerberg was formally nominated for President of the United States after which Warren suspended her campaign and endorsed Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg announced he had chosen John Hickenlooper to be his running mat, who had suspended his campaign after poor performance in his home state of Colorado.

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