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2020 Democratic Party Presidential Caucus and Primaries.

The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the 3,979 pledged delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention held on August 17–20 to determine the party's nominee for president of the United States in the 59th U.S. presidential election. The elections took place in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, and Democrats Abroad, and occurred between February 3 and August 11.

There were 29 major Democratic presidential candidates in the election.This was the largest field of presidential candidates for any American political party since 1972, exceeding the field of 17 major candidates during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.Seven candidates received pledged delegates: former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard.

On April 8, Biden became the presumptive nominee after Sanders, the only other candidate remaining, suspended his campaign. In early June, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates to win the nomination. On August 11, Biden announced that Senator Kamala Harris would be his running mate. On August 18 and 19, delegates at the Democratic National Convention officially nominated Biden for president and Harris for vice president.

2020 Republican Party Presidential Caucus and Primaries.

The 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests that took place in many U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.

President Donald Trump informally launched his bid for reelection on February 18, 2017. He launched his reelection campaign earlier in his presidency than any of his predecessors did. He was followed by former governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld, who announced his campaign on April 15, 2019, and former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, who declared his candidacy on August 25, 2019. Former governor of South Carolina and U.S. representative Mark Sanford launched a primary challenge on September 8, 2019. In addition, businessman Rocky De La Fuente entered the race on May 16, 2019, but was not widely recognized as a major candidate.

In February 2019, the Republican National Committee voted to provide undivided support to Trump. Several states canceled their primaries and caucuses. Other states were encouraged to use "winner-takes-all" or "winner-takes-most" systems to award delegates instead of using proportional allocation.

Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on March 17, 2020 after securing a majority of pledged delegates. Donald Trump received over 18 millions votes in the Republican Primary, the most ever for an incumbent President in a primary.