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.

2020 presidential polls suffered worst performance in decades, report says

7/19/21
from The Washington Post,
7/18/21:

... the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) task force found that the surveys overstated the margin between President Biden and former president Donald Trump by 3.9 points in the national popular vote and 4.3 percentage points in state polls.

Polls understated the support for Trump in nearly every state and by an average of 3.3 percentage points overall. Polls in Senate and gubernatorial races suffered from the same problem.

“There was a systematic error that was found in terms of the overstatement for Democratic support across the board,” said Josh Clinton, a Vanderbilt University political science professor who chaired the 19-member task force.

The polls did a better job of estimating the average support for Biden, with a few exceptions. In general, support for Biden in the polls was 1 percentage point higher than his actual vote.

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