2020 Election
The 2020 Presidential Election will be the polar opposite of 2016. In 2020 we see north of 20 Democrats candidates as we saw the same flood of Republican candidates in 2016. Donald Trump 'should' be the 2020 Republican nominee as the incumbent President, but, given the 'never Trumper' crowd in the Republican party, he received three challengers; Mark Sanford, William Weld and Joe Walsh. All three have suspended their campaigns due to poor early primary results. Below is the 2020 Democrat field, as it developed over the last year. Joe Biden is the only remaining active candidate for the Democrat nominations and leaves him as the presumptive 2020 Democrat Presidential nominee. Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign, but will leave his name on the ballot for remaining primaries to try and collect more delegates to help his negotiating power at the Democrat convention. Howard Schultz, a Democrat, announced his candidacy, but had problems with the leftward lean of the Democrat party & they with him. He decided (9/6/19) not to run as an Independent candidate. Others who were competing, but have suspended their campaigns include: Eric Swalwell (7/8/19) , John Hickenlooper (8/22/19), Jay Inslee (8/22/19), Seth Moulton (8/24/19), Kirsten Gillibrand (8/27/19), Bill DeBlasio (9/20/19), Tim Ryan (11/1/19), Beto O'Rourke (11/2/19), Wayne Messam (11/20/19), Steve Bullock (12/2/19), Kamala Harris (12/3/19), Joe Sestak (12/6/19), Julian Castro (1/2/20), Marianne Williamson (1/10/20), Cory Booker (1/13/20), John Delaney (1/31/20), Michael Bennet (2/11/20), Andrew Yang (2/11/20), Deval Patrick (2/12/20), Tom Steyer (2/29/20), Pete Buttigieg (3/1/20), Amy Klobuchar (3/2/20), Michael Bloomberg (3/4/20), Elizabeth Warren (3/5/20), Tulsi Gabbard (3/19/20), Bernie Sanders (4/8/20). Justin Amash becae a late entry into the Presidential field (5/2/20). He dropped out 2 + weeks later. (5/21/20). Candidate Positions "On The Issues" can be found here. Gallup's 2020 Presidential Election Center. Real Clear Politics Election 2020 National Average. 270towin. On July 4, 2020, Kanye West announced he was running for President.
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The Issues of This Election Were Solved 15 years ago!

11/23/20
from The Gray Area:
11/23/20:

A blue ribbon, bi-partisan panel was convened in 2005, including people like former President Jimmy Carter (D), former Sen. Tom Daschle (D) and former Reagan Republican Secretary of State James Baker to investigate the problems and vulnerabilities in our election system and made an extensive series of recommendations for reforms.

This commission recommended:

that state voter registration databases be shared among the states to eliminate duplicate registrations.

states should implement a voter identification requirement to ensure that people presenting themselves at the polling place match the registration list;

stressed the importance of verifying that only citizens are voting, recommending that states obtain proof of citizenship before registering voters;

to stay away from mail-in voting because of the vulnerabilities to abuse & fraud;

and many other improvements that, if implemented, could have prevented a lot of the current frustration we’re experiencing today.

None were implemented!

Why?

[caption id="attachment_208025" align="aligncenter" width="300"] PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - NOVEMBER 06: Boxes of counted ballots are seen locked in the ballot storage area at the Philadelphia Convention Center on November 06, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joe Biden took the lead in the vote count in Pennsylvania on Friday morning from President Trump, as mail-in ballots continue to be counted in the battleground state. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)[/caption]

by Kay Coles James,

from Heritage Foundation,
11/18/20:

A 2012 Pew study found that 24 million voter registrations in the U.S. were inaccurate, out of date or duplicates.

After Florida’s vote-counting debacle in the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, one would think that two decades would have given states plenty of time to get things right.

I was a member of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which was chaired by former Democratic President Carter and former Reagan Republican Secretary of State James Baker. We investigated the problems and vulnerabilities in our election system and made an extensive series of recommendations for reforms. If the commission could get people on the left like former Sen. Tom Daschle and President Carter to agree with people on the right like Secretary Baker and me on these recommendations, you can be assured the recommendations weren’t about suppressing votes. They were about protecting the integrity of our elections. They were meant to give the American people confidence in election outcomes and the assurance that their vote meant something. The commission’s report was filled with practical solutions to many of the recurring problems we’ve seen in elections since 2005.

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