2020 United States presidential election (Our Democracy timeline)

The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Incumbent Democratic president Russ Feingold and vice president Julián Castro easily defeated the Republican ticket of Florida governor Adam Putnam and outgoing Indiana senator and former governor Mike Pence. The election took place against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic and related recession. Feingold's re-election win had the largest margin of victory in terms of popular vote of any U.S. presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 re-election.

Close states
States where the margin of victory was under 1% (57 electoral votes; 57 won by Feingold, 0 by Putnam):


 * 1)  Texas, 0.29% – 38 electoral votes 
 * 2)  Ohio, 0.58% – 16 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Maine's 2nd Congressional District, 0.73% – 1 electoral vote 

States where the margin of victory was under 5% (80 electoral votes; 71 won by Feingold, 9 by Putnam):


 * 1)  Florida, 1.34% – 29 electoral votes 
 * 2)  North Carolina, 1.98% – 15 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Iowa, 2.13% – 6 electoral votes 
 * 4)  Arizona, 3.78% – 11 electoral votes 
 * 5)  Georgia, 4.53% – 16 electoral votes 
 * 6)  Alaska, 4.86% – 3 electoral votes 

States where the margin of victory was under 10% (93 electoral votes; 53 won by Feingold, 40 by Putnam):


 * 1)  Nevada, 7.36% – 6 electoral votes 
 * 2)  Kansas, 8.64% – 6 electoral votes 
 * 3)  Nebraska's 1st Congressional District, 8.83% – 1 electoral vote 
 * 4)  Indiana, 9.04% – 11 electoral votes 
 * 5)  Montana, 9.17% – 3 electoral votes 
 * 6)  Wisconsin, 9.21% – 16 electoral votes  (tipping-point state)
 * 7)  Pennsylvania, 9.30% – 20 electoral votes 
 * 8)  Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, 9.46% – 1 electoral vote 
 * 9)  Missouri, 9.52% – 10 electoral votes 
 * 10)  South Carolina, 9.67% – 9 electoral votes 
 * 11)  Michigan, 9.98% – 16 electoral votes