Democrats Abroad presidential primary, 2020
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Primary date: March 3-10, 2020 |
Democrats Abroad is the Democratic political party affiliate for American citizens living outside of the United States. The group functions as a state-level political party within the Democratic National Committee.
The group does not cast electoral votes for president of the United States. It does, however, hold a primary nominating event.
Democrats Abroad held a global primary from March 3-10, 2020.[1] Any U.S. citizen living abroad who was a member of Democrats Abroad could participate in the primary. However, a voter could not participate if they had voted in another state's primary.[1] Candidates had to receive at least 15% of the vote in order to qualify for the proportional allocation of delegates.[2]
Bernie Sanders won the 2020 Democrats Abroad primary with 57.9% of the vote and received nine of the group's 13 pledged delegates. Joe Biden followed with 22.7% of the vote and received the remaining four pledged delegates.[3]
During the Democratic nomination roll call on August 18, 2020, the Democrats Abroad gave seven votes to Biden and 10 votes to Sanders.
Election results
Democrats Abroad Democratic presidential primary on March 10, 2020
Candidate |
% |
Votes |
Pledged delegates |
|
 | Bernie Sanders |
57.9
|
23,139 | 9 |
 | Joe Biden |
22.7
|
9,059 | 4 |
 | Elizabeth Warren |
14.3
|
5,730 | 0 |
 | Michael Bloomberg |
2.2
|
892 | 0 |
 | Pete Buttigieg |
1.5
|
616 | 0 |
 | Amy Klobuchar |
0.6
|
224 | 0 |
 | Tulsi Gabbard |
0.4
|
146 | 0 |
 | Andrew Yang |
0.2
|
85 | 0 |
 | Deval Patrick |
0.1
|
26 | 0 |
 | Thomas Steyer |
0.0
|
19 | 0 |
| Other |
0.1
|
48 | 0 | |
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Total votes: 39,984 • Total pledged delegates: 13 |
Primary information
- See also: Democratic presidential nomination, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) was formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020.[4] The convention was originally scheduled to take place July 13-16, 2020.[5] Organizers postponed the event in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Prior to the national convention, individual state caucuses and primaries were held to allocate convention delegates. These delegates vote at the convention to select the nominee. In 2020, a Democratic presidential candidate needed support from 1,991 delegates to secure the nomination.
With the plurality of pledged delegates, Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee on April 8, 2020, after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his presidential campaign.[6] Biden crossed the delegate threshold necessary to win the nomination on June 5, 2020.[7]
Biden announced U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D) as his running mate on August 11, 2020. Harris is the first Black woman to appear on a major party's ticket in the United States.[8]
See also
- Presidential candidates, 2020
- Democratic presidential nomination, 2020
- Republican presidential nomination, 2020
- Presidential election by state, 2020
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Democrats Abroad, "2020 Press Kit," accessed January 30, 2020
- ↑ The Green Papers, "Democrats Abroad Democrat," accessed January 30, 2020
- ↑ Democrats Abroad, "The 2020 Global Presidential Primary Results Are In!" March 23, 2020
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "2020 DNC in Milwaukee pushed back to week of August 17 in response to coronavirus pandemic," April 2, 2020
- ↑ The New York Times, "Milwaukee Picked as Site of 2020 Democratic National Convention," March 11, 2019
- ↑ Talking Points Memo, "Bernie Sanders Ends 2020 Bid, Making Biden Presumptive Dem Nominee," April 8, 2020
- ↑ AP, "Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination," June 5, 2020
- ↑ CNBC, "Joe Biden picks Sen. Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential running mate, making her the first black woman on a major ticket," August 11, 2020
