Presidential candidate campaign travel, 2020
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This page tracked the number of days each 2020 Democratic presidential candidate held campaign events in the four early primary states—Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada—from January 1, 2019, through February 29, 2020.
Campaign travel figures were revised monthly. The last update was on March 2, 2020.
Democratic presidential candidates
- See also: Democratic presidential nomination, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) won the presidential election on November 3, 2020. Biden received 306 electoral votes and President Donald Trump (R) received 232 electoral votes. In the national popular vote, Biden received 81.2 million votes and Trump received 74.2 million votes.[1]
Biden was sworn in on January 20, 2021, becoming the oldest president to take office at 78 years old. His running mate, former Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), became the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.
Click here to learn more about the Biden presidential transition.
Biden announced that he was running for president on April 25, 2019.[2] 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.[3] Biden crossed the delegate threshold necessary to win the nomination on June 5, 2020, and was formally nominated at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020.[4]
Biden announced Harris as his running mate on August 11, 2020. He called her "a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants."[5][6]
Biden framed his campaign as a challenge to Trump. "I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation—who we are—and I cannot stand by and watch that happen," he said.[7]
He represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009 before serving as vice president under President Barack Obama (D) from 2009 to 2017.[8]
Campaigning in early primary states
Ballotpedia compiled the number of days each Democratic presidential candidate has spent in the four early primary states—Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada—from January 1, 2019, through February 29, 2020.
Information about the candidates' schedules was sourced from The Des Moines Register, NBC Boston/NECN, The Post & Courier, The Nevada Independent.[9][10][11][12]
The following table shows the number of days each candidate spent in each early primary state between January 1, 2019, and February 29, 2020. Candidates marked with an asterisk did not have complete information available for one or more states.
Days spent in early primary states by month, 2019-2020
The following spreadsheet provides the monthly raw data for how many days each 2020 Democratic presidential candidate spent in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.
Information about the candidates' schedules was collected from The Des Moines Register, NBC Boston/NECN, The Post & Courier, The Nevada Independent.[9][10][11][12]
See also
- Presidential candidates, 2020
- Democratic presidential nomination, 2020
- Republican presidential nomination, 2020
Footnotes
- ↑ The New York Times, "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins," December 14, 2020
- ↑ CNN, "Joe Biden announces he is running for president in 2020," April 25, 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
- ↑ Twitter, "Joe Biden," August 11, 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
- ↑ The New York Times, "Joe Biden’s Campaign Announcement Video, Annotated," April 25, 2019
- ↑ Biography, "Joe Biden," accessed April 1, 2019
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Des Moines Register, "Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 NECN, "2020 New Hampshire Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Post & Courier, "2020 SC Presidential Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Nevada Independent, "Presidential Candidate Tracker," accessed July 29, 2019
