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.