All you need to know about 2020 US Elections
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Background

According to the Survey , U.S. holds the first position in the list of world’s most – powerful country. It has world’s most dominant economy and military power. U.S. is a powerful member in the group of International Organisation and has major authority for making decisions at International level. Undisputedly, most of authoritative power lies in the hands of president. Thus, U.S. presidential election is most awaited and crucial event to be held on 23 November, 2020. In United States, the president and the vice president is elected by the process of indirect election. The indirect election is done by  the citizens of the country, who are registered to vote in one of the U.S. fifty states or in Washington, DC, cast their votes for the members of ElectoralCollege under the  process of election.  The selected electoral then cast electoral votes to elect a president or vice president, the candidate is elected for their office by receiving majority votes. i. e  atleast 270 out of 538. The establishment of the Electoral College and  its procedure in  the U.S. Constitution  is under Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 4. In case, no candidate receives an absolute majority of the votes for president, then the House of Representatives chooses the  most qualifying candidate as the president, and in case if no one receives the absolute majority of the votes for vice president , then the Senate has the power to elect the vice president. The election process was not specified in the constitution but was developed by the community. Any individual of eighteen years or above irrespective of their race, sex, color is eligible for voting. The race for White House has begun for the upcoming elections. There are two parties which are mostly considered by voters- the Democrats, and the Republicans. The 2020 US presidential election to be held, will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election. The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses were command from Gregorian calendar month to August 2020 . The Republicans is  the conservative political party in the US and candidate for this year is again President Donald Trump, hoping to secure another four years in power. The Republican party is also known as the Grand old party (GOP). Some of the former Republican presidents are George W Bush, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. Speaking about recent years, the party has set their benchmark for lower taxes, guns right and strict restrictions imposed on immigration. The party tends to get support and is stronger in the rural areas of America. The Democrats are the liberal political party in the US and their candidate for 2020 elections is Joe Biden. Biden has served as a vice president to Barack Obama for 8 years.  Biden is one of the oldest candidate to be nominated for electoral president. If sworn, he would become the only person to function as president at 78 years of age. The new president is formally sworn into office on 20 January in a service known as the introduction, which is hung on the means of the Capital working in Washington DC. After the function, the new president advances toward the White House to start their four-year term. Democrats, as of now have control of the House so they will be hoping to keep hold of that while additionally dealing with the Senate. On the chance that  they had a greater part in the two chambers they would have the option to obstruct or postpone President Trump's arrangements if he somehow managed to be reappointed. Each of the 435 seats in the House are on the ballot this year, while 33 Senate seats are additionally available for anyone. The newly elected president and vice president then come in power.

Issues that are unique about 2020 election

Let's give a glance on some unique issues of 2020 elections. President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives twice on December, 18th 2019. The trial in the Senate began on January 21, 2020, and ended on February 5, resulting in final decision by the United States Senate. Various things and events have been postponed due to Covid 19 pandemic. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders cancelled several campaigns and rallies. The pandemic, relief, and Economic Security Act included money for states to increase mail-in voting. The U.S. officials have accused Russia, China and Iran for interfering the 2020 United States elections. On 4th of October 2019, Microsoft announced that “Phosphorus”, a hacking group relating to the Iranian government, had tried to compromise e-mail accounts belonging to journalists, the U.S. government officials, rallies and, the campaigns of U.S. presidential candidate. On April 2020, Biden claimed, Trump may try to delay the elections. Furthermore, Donald Trump tweeted, “Universal Mail-In Voting, is a good attempt but, can/will make the 2020 elections INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT in history” and asked if it should be delayed until people could safely cast their votes. There are even other issues, which includes gun policy, immigration, the federal budget deficit and criminal justice, law enforcement. None of the parties has an important edge among voters. Some Scholars have closely examined the public policies and regulations related to issues that are disputable on the campaign trail with its subject to deal with the economic depletion due to corona virus pandemic to ruining consequences of wildfires. Such complex problems that require synchronized responses. The voters may excise their votes based on several platforms. Every individual having different opinions may consider these points such as healthcare, economy, violent crimes, foreign policy, Supreme Court appointments, immigration, racial and ethnic inequality rank are all major debatable topics to think on before casting their individual votes. Both Democrats, and Republicans have strong points among these topics and has a disputable score. While, neither of parties has any significant role in the topics such as the federal budget deficit, law enforcement and criminal justice. Issues circling around the US elections 2020 are profuse, interception of numerous misinformation on social media. The tumult, and uncertainty of civil unrest, racial reckoning, conspiracy theories leading to misinformation. On September 18, 2020, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who was an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States passed on. The demise of Justice Ginsburg brought about increments in energy for both the Democrats, and Republicans. The president, vice president, and a few Republican from Congress expressed that a full Supreme Court seat was expected to choose in the upcoming political race. In a survey, a major issue according to the registered voters conclude, after the recession the economy is constantly a top voting issue among all. According to a recent survey, 79% of the registered voters claim economy plays a vital role in making their voting decision for 2020 presidential election while 68% of the voters states that health is very important for their votes, and 64% votes for Supreme Court appointments issue. As the country continues to tackle with the corona virus outbreak, 62% of voters say the Covid 19 outbreak will be very important. In a current survey 59% say violent crime will be important, and 57% say about foreign policy. Racial and ethnic inequality rank gets 52% votes, and the voters call these issues very important for their final decision.

Nominations

The American will vote for their next President and Vice-President in the early November in 2020. The Republicans and the Democrats are the country’s major two political parties. They choose two-person team called a ticket, to run in the general election. It has been more than 150 years since other than these two parties won presidency of the country. On the Republican side, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are doing re-election to serve presidency  for another four-year term. Trump was crowned as the nation’s 45th president in January 2017. He was the oldest presidential candidate ever to be newly elected at the age of 70. He is running in the 2020 elections to win for the second time from Republican Party. Earlier, he was a businessman and a television personality. His net worth is 2.1 million, according to Forbes. He is considered as a conservative, nationalist. Donald attracts some voters for a call of big change in government. One of his, “Make America Great Again” campaign promised decrease in government rules, lower taxes, and more jobs. Joe Biden is an American, politician of Democratic Party, who is mainly known as the Former Vice President of the United States. He was 47th vice president of the US from 2009 to 2017. He is a politician, lawyer and author by profession. In 2018, he was awarded as the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction by Obama and has served as a United States senator for 36 years, but his political career nearly dropped in early stage. He is depicted as a strong speaker and debater, is also known for slip-ups and offhand remarks. There was a tragic beginning as a few weeks after his first Senate election in 1972, his wife and 1-year-old daughter died in a car accident. His two young sons were also injured very badly in that incident. The widowed and single dad thought about giving up his Senate seat, representing Delaware, to stay at home with his sons. Biden twice stood for presidency before.  President's running for re-election face party nomination through proforma with token instead of any challengers. Donald Trump seeks a second term of the official Republican Party both state and national organized with his campaign to make changes in order to make difficult for any primary opponent. On January 25th 2019 Republican National committee unofficially countersigned Trump. Trump carried active campaign during the primary session and even hold rallies in February primary States. Trump won many races and have enough delegates to insurance nomination. Previously in 2018, democratic national committee decided to disallow super delegates from voting on the first ballot for the nomination process from 2020. This required the candidates to win the majority of delegates from various primary elections to win the party nomination. Hence, the primary field of 2020 election 2019 candidates breaking the record from the largest feel under the presidential system which was 17 major candidates in 2016. At one point, the number of contenders bulged to nearly 30 Democrats. Though the field has now peeled off to a couple of contenders. John Delaney, former congressman began his campaign in the year 2017 and was later joined by Andrew Yang. After campaigning for about two and a half years, Delaney admitted defeat and withdrew. Yang dropped out after getting only 1% of votes in lowa and 3% in New Hampshire. Others include Michael Bloomberg, whose involvement was a bit late. He strategized to focus on the states that voted on Super Tuesday, spent huge amount on ad campaigns. Eventually, he came with only few delegates. Thus, before quitting the race and endorsing Joe Biden. Biden was credited as an accelerated representative  in this race throughout 2019. He had strong name recognition as he served as vice president to Barack Obama for 8 years. He also managed to hold a clear lead in national polls. His numbers declined at the start of 2020, Bernie Sanders overtook him in the RealClearPolitics national average after getting a strong response in the lower caucuses. However, Biden won by a strong verge in South Carolina which gave an uplift to his poll numbers.

Endorsements

The political endorsement is a public declaration of an individual or organization's support for the elected candidate. The US election is the main focus for World media now.  In US,  various newspapers and news media  endorse candidates for nominating parties for President of the United States. This is done prior to endorse one of the quintessential nominees for president. Even celebrities endorse the political party that they want to support. Democrats have comparatively more endorsements than the Republicans. More or less 200 current and former law enforcement officials endorsed Joe Biden, contemplating a thrust to challenge President Donald Trump. The campaign announced the list of  endorsements which comprises current and former prosecutors, sheriffs and other law enforcement officials throughout the country. Here is a note on endorsement for the candidates of presidential election: Trump is from the Republican Party's presidential candidate for 2020 presidential election. Mike Pence vice President of the United States from 2017 — present. Governor of Indiana use office term was from 2013 to 2017. US representative from Indiana office term from 2001 to 2013. Joe Biden is one of the candidates for presidential election 2020 of the United States. He was the vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is affiliated with Democratic Party. People who are supporting him are the US Senator from 1973 to 2009 Kamala Harris Senator from California office term is from 2017 to present. Attorney General of California term of office from 2011 to 2017. Jo Jorgensen from Libertarian Parties for presidential election. He was a senior lecturer at Clemson University. Following are the notable individual organization who have voiced their support. Spike Cohen pod caster and businessman. Howie Hawkin is one of the candidates for presidential election. He is an environmental activist from New York. He belongs from green party and is one of the co-founders. Angela Walker voiced endorsement for him, who is a labor activist. And Socialist party vice presidential nominee. Endorsement voiced for main two candidates: JOE BIDEN 1. Former president Barack Obama- He believes that more Joe Biden would be a far more capable leader of the US response than Donald Trump. Also, in an interview he stated ' I believe Joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now.” 2. Dwayne 'The Rock' endorses Biden for president- He came out in support of Joe Biden in US presidential election saying. 'They are the best choice to lead our country, ' and he self-proclaimed that he has voted for Democrats in the past and as well as Republicans 3. Hilary Clinton- The 2016 democracy presidential nominee endorsed former vice President Joe Biden. She also highlighted a lot of the issues that are in stake in this presidential election. DONALD TRUMP 1) Rep Vernon Jones- As mentioned in an interview Jones said he is backing Trump because Trump have backed initiatives including increased funding for historically black colleges, signed criminal justice reforms and creates the most inclusive economy ever. 2)Rod Blagojevich- Former Illinois Democratic Gov. Blagojevich offered an endorsement of Trump's bid as she believes he is a justice reformer and mentioned herself as a ' Trumpocrat'. There is a list of the well known individuals who are supposed to voice their endorsement for Donald Trump are some US senator name Lamar Alexander, John Borrasso, John Boozman, Roy Blunt, Marsha Blackburn, Tom cotton, Richard Burr and many more. Some US Representatives are Robert Adarholt, Rick W. Allen, Don Bacon, Jim Banks, Andy Barr, Andy Biggs are doing endorsement. On the other hand, the list of individuals or organization who are doing endorsement for Joe Biden are some US senator Michal Bannet, Tammy Baldwin, Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, Ben Cardin, Tom carper, Tammy Duckworth, Dick Durbin, Kirsten Gillibrand and many more. Former federal judicial official, Moe Davis and Lacy Thornburg are supposed to indulge into the endorsement of Joe Biden. In the field of sports and athletes, Chrish Bosh, Stephen Curry, Mick Foley, Billie Jean king, Calvin Johnson, Magic John are some major names for the endorsement of joe Biden.

Prediction

The prediction is something that varies person to person with varied results and conflicts. There is a lot of prediction related to the  US 2020 elections such that astrological predictions, AI predictions, Simpsons predictions, vedic  predictions and many more. In the US election system, each state has a number of votes, based on its population. Thus, it is the state-level results that count and people reliably vote the same each time. Hence, US presidential election is an indirect election. Two well known American sources Real Clear Politics, and the Cook Politics reports the list of states that are expected to vote on election night. Several states were classified as toss up's which shows that those could be won by either side. Most of the states are already marked based on their voting decision. The roughly speculated count vote of 188 to Mr. Trump and 233 to Biden. There are total 538 electoral college votes and it's possible that each comes out with 269 which makes a tie. In that case the house of representatives will vote for the next President and the US senate will vote for the next vice president. According to the Economist Survey, Biden may get 54% votes while Trump may get 46% votes. Also, after the debate, the possibility of votes for Biden to get declined is less than 5%. The surveys for prediction has been done through several reports, and Biden is ahead of Trump according to the majority of surveys done till now. Trump said, a Biden presidency would lead to lawlessness, seeking to tie the former vice president to civil unrest stoked by police shootings of Black Americans. While Biden accused Trump of fueling violence with his oratory. At this point of time, it is impossible to certainly predict who is going to win the election and become the 46th president of U.S. But Trump has massive advantage over the opposing party. Trump is an incumbent : Owing to earlier generations, there is a strong tendency of Americans to choose the incumbent over the challenger. They will only chose the challenger over the incumbent if the current incumbent is really a disasterous one. The economy of the country hasn’t crashed : The pandemic has affected whole world’s economy very badly. But if the situation of U.S.  is analysed before pandemic, the economy was doing quite well during his time. Trump is a bold and valiant leader : He has taken many bold decisions over his term. He ordered the operation that klled Islamic State leader Au Bakr at – Baghdadi. It was a very high risk mission. If the things would have gone terrible, he would have been blamed. He has also forced Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration by his tariff threats. He has also raised his voice against China for deliberately spreading coronavirus through out the world. Trump is a Republican : The way U.S. political system works, Republicans get massive advantage over the democrats in the electoral college. In the country, Democrats tend to live in cities while Republicans tend to live in rural areas and the electoral college tends to give greater power to predominately rural states with low population. Trump has Fox News to back him up : Fox News can twist and mold any piece of information to make Trump look good. No matter what Trump says or does, it manipulates the information in such a way that the news will only add favourably to Trump’s image. As most of the conservatives get news from Fox channel only, they think well for him. But Trump's oratory regarding various issues has shattered his image and disappointed many of his country men. On the other hand Biden is also a very strong competitor. He will do anything and everything to triumph the election. As table can turn anytime, there is an equal chance for both of them to win the election. Citizens of America are wise enough to choose  best leader for them.

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