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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Blacks and Latinos for Trump

11/12/20
from The Wall Street Journal,
11/10/20:

The president ... did a good deal better with minorities in 2020 than he did in 2016.

Assuming the exit polls are more reliable than the ones that predicted a blue wave, Joe Biden did what he said he would do on Election Day in the upper Midwest—just not how he said he would do it. In 2016, millions of people in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania who had supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 opted to back Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. It was these voters, not the Kremlin or Ku Klux Klan sympathizers, who delivered the White House to Republicans.

For liberals who are happy enough to be rid of Mr. Trump, this is a distinction without a difference. But for anyone playing the long game, it’s clear that the president’s brand of Republican populism isn’t going away.

intriguing is the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of that coalition. The president, who is regularly dismissed in the media as a bigot, saw a small uptick in his support among black and Hispanic voters. The black increase is notable but less impressive when put in context. Between 1976 and 2004, Republican presidential candidates averaged just over 11% of the black vote. John McCain won 4% in 2008 and Mitt Romney 6% in 2012, but they had to run against Barack Obama. In 2016, Mr. Trump, who didn’t have that excuse, managed only 8%, an improvement to be sure, but still below the pre-Obama norm. Mr. Trump’s 4-point increase this year gets him back to the GOP’s traditional share of the black vote. The president’s performance among Latinos, which jumped to 32% from 28%, is more interesting.

Mr. Trump also won 26% of nonwhite voters, according to NBC’s exit poll, driving commentators on the left crazy. One described these voters as “distracted.”

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