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- Meets with the political elites and tells them their campaign and ask for their support.
- Called "invisible primary" because they do not talk to the general public yet.
- Trump for the Republicans: John Kasich, Donald Trump
- Biden for Democrats: John Delaney, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election_(November_2020%E2%80%93January_2021)#The_invisible_primary_and_debate_period

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- Democrats: Joe Biden released a video stating he will be running for president in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. (April 2019)
- Republicans: Donald Trump, while being president of the United States, filed to run for re-election in (June 2019)
Sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020

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-Caucus: The members of the party come together and discuss who they want to win as president for the country. Each supporter gives speeches for their candidate.
-Primaries: It depends on the state who gets to vote, but the general public votes on who they would want the president to be. This helps choose who is going to be the two main candidates.
-Joe Biden won the popular vote and caucus for the Democrats and Bernie Sanders got second
-Donald Trump won the primaries with a landslide.

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-Republicans: held in Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The convention nominated Trump and Pence for vice president. Delegates of the United States Republican Party elected the party nominees for the party.
- Democrats: held in the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. the delegates of the United States Democratic Party nominated former vice president, Joe Biden, and vice president Kamala Harris. Convention was downsized because of COVID
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_National_Convention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_National_Convention

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-The candidate that receives the majority of the delegates' votes from their party gains the nomination for their party
-This means they become the nominee for the party and are on the ballot as the candidate for that party.
-Biden and Harris won the Democratic nomination
-Trump won the Republican nomination

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-The candidates are campaigning right from the time their candidacy is announced.
-But the last major push comes when it is down to two candidates
-They will make speeches and advertisements and many other things to gain publicity and get more voters.

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General Election (October 7 & 27th & November 3rd 2020)

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General Election (October 7 & 27th & November 3rd 2020)

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-October 7th is when early voting starts
-October 27th is the deadline to turn in the mail in ballots
-On November 3rd people have to vote at the voting booths
-The votes are counted for each state
-The president who gets the most votes wins the popular vote but does not necessarily win the election.
-Biden won the popular vote

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-This is the last step in the election process and what ultimately determines who becomes president.
-One elector per state meets in Washington DC and casts one vote per president based on who won in their state
-Which ever candidate wins the electoral vote becomes the president
Biden won the electoral vote

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries

https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_presidential_nomination,_2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_primary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election_(January%E2%80%93October_2020)

https://www.usa.gov/election

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11641