2020 Republican Party presidential primaries explained

Election Name:2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
Country:United States
Type:primary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2016 Republican Party presidential primaries
Previous Year:2016
Next Election:2024 Republican Party presidential primaries
Next Year:2024
Election Date:February 3 to August 11, 2020
Votes For Election:2,550 delegate votes (2,443 pledged and 107 unpledged) to the Republican National Convention[1]
Needed Votes:1,276 delegates
Party Name:no
Image1:File:Donald Trump official portrait (cropped).jpg
Candidate1:Donald Trump
Color1:283681
Home State1:Florida[2] [3]
States Carried1:56
Popular Vote1:18,159,752
Percentage1:93.99%
Delegate Count1:2,549
Candidate2:Bill Weld
Color2:00ABE1
Home State2:Massachusetts
States Carried2:0
Popular Vote2:454,402
Percentage2:2.35%
Delegate Count2:1
Map Size:300px
Republican nominee
Before Election:Donald Trump
After Election:Donald Trump

Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place in many U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories from February 3 to August 11, 2020, to elect most of the 2,550 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention. Delegates to the national convention in other states were elected by the respective state party organizations. The delegates to the national convention voted on the first ballot to select Donald Trump as the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, and selected Mike Pence as the vice-presidential nominee.

President Donald Trump informally launched his bid for reelection on February 18, 2017. He launched his reelection campaign earlier in his presidency than any of his predecessors did. He was followed by former governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld, who announced his campaign on April 15, 2019, and former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh, who declared his candidacy on August 25, 2019. Former governor of South Carolina and U.S. representative Mark Sanford launched a primary challenge on September 8, 2019. In addition, businessman Rocky De La Fuente entered the race on May 16, 2019, but was not widely recognized as a major candidate.

In February 2019, the Republican National Committee voted to provide undivided support to Trump.[4] [5] Several states canceled their primaries and caucuses.[6] Other states were encouraged to use "winner-takes-all" or "winner-takes-most" systems to award delegates instead of using proportional allocation.[7] [8]

Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on March 17, 2020, after securing a majority of pledged delegates.[9] Donald Trump received over 18 million votes in the Republican primary, the most ever for an incumbent president in a primary as well as the most for any Republican in a presidential primary.

Primary race overview

Numerous pundits, journalists and politicians speculated that President Donald Trump might face a significant Republican primary challenger in 2020 because of his historic unpopularity in polls, his association with allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, his impeachment, and his support of unpopular policies.[10] [11] [12] In August 2017, reports arose beginning that members of the Republican Party were preparing a "shadow campaign" against the president, particularly from the moderate or establishment wings of the party. Then-Arizona senator John McCain said, "Republicans see weakness in this president."[13] [14] Maine senator Susan Collins, Kentucky senator Rand Paul, and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie all expressed doubts in 2017 that Trump would be the 2020 nominee, with Collins stating "it's too difficult to say."[15] [16] Former U.S. senator Jeff Flake claimed in 2017 that Trump was "inviting" a primary challenger by the way he was governing.[17] However, longtime political strategist Roger Stone predicted in May 2018 that Trump might not seek a second term were he to succeed in keeping all his campaign promises and "mak[ing] America great again".[18]

Some prominent Trump critics within the GOP, including 2016 presidential candidate Carly Fiorina,[19] former senator Jeff Flake,[20] and former Massachusetts governor and current U.S. senator Mitt Romney[21] stated they would not run against Trump for the nomination in 2020.

In 2017, there were rumors of a potential bipartisan ticket consisting of Republican Ohio governor and 2016 presidential candidate John Kasich and Democratic Colorado governor John Hickenlooper.[22] Kasich and Hickenlooper denied those rumors.[23] [24] In November 2018, however, Kasich asserted that he was "very seriously" considering a White House bid in 2020.[25] In August 2019, he indicated that he did not see a path to win over Trump in a Republican primary at that time, but that his opinion might change in the future.[26]

On January 25, 2019, the Republican National Committee unofficially endorsed Trump.[27]

After re-enrolling as a Republican in January 2019,[28] former Republican governor of Massachusetts and 2016 Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld announced the formation of a 2020 presidential exploratory committee on February 15, 2019.[29] Weld announced his 2020 presidential candidacy on April 15, 2019.[30] Weld was considered a long-shot challenger because of Trump's popularity with Republicans; furthermore, Weld's views on abortion rights, gay marriage, marijuana legalization, and other issues conflict with socially conservative positions dominant in the modern Republican party.[31] Weld received 1.3% of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and one pledged delegate to the 2020 Republican National Convention on February 3, 2020. [32] [33] Weld withdrew from the race on March 18, 2020, after Trump earned enough delegates to secure the nomination.

Former U.S. representative Joe Walsh was a strong Trump supporter in 2016, but gradually became critical of the president. On August 25, 2019, Walsh officially declared his candidacy against Trump, calling Trump an "unfit con man".[34] He then ended his campaign on February 7, 2020, following a poor performance in the Iowa Caucuses. Walsh called the Republican Party a "cult" and said that he likely would support whoever was the Democratic nominee in the general election.[35] According to Walsh, Trump supporters had become "followers" who think that Trump "can do no wrong", after absorbing misinformation from conservative media. He stated, "They don't know what the truth is and—more importantly—they don't care."[36]

Former South Carolina governor and former U.S. representative Mark Sanford officially declared his candidacy on September 8, but suspended his campaign two months later on November 12, 2019, after failing to gain significant attention from voters.

Despite the mostly nominal status of his opposition, Trump campaigned during this primary season, holding rallies in the February primary and Super Tuesday states.[37] [38]

The president won every primary by wide margins and clinched the nomination shortly after the Super Tuesday primaries ended. While the results were never in doubt, the primary wasn't without controversy.Several states postponed their primaries/caucuses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and others continued with in-person voting[39] [40] [41] [42] [43] while Trump's claims about fraud related to by-mail voting discouraged expansion and promotion of such voting.[44]

Candidates

Nominee

Other candidates

The people in this section were considered to be major candidates.

Candidate Born Experience State Campaign
announced 		width=40Campaign
suspended !		Article Popular vote Delegates Ref.

Bill Weld
(age)
Smithtown, New York		Governor of Massachusetts (1991–1997)
Libertarian nominee for Vice President in 2016
Massachusetts
(endorsed Biden)[56]
Campaign
FEC filing[57] 		data-sort-value="4" 454,402
(2.35%)		1data-sort-value="6" [58] [59]

Rocky De La Fuente
(age)
San Diego, California		Businessman and real estate developer
Reform nominee for President in 2016 & 2020[60]
Perennial candidate
California
(ran as Alliance, Reform, and American Independent)
Campaign
FEC filing[61] 		data-sort-value="2"108,357
(0.57%)		0data-sort-value="6" [62] [63]

Joe Walsh
(age)
North Barrington, Illinois		U.S. Representative from IL-08 (2011–2013)
Talk radio host
Illinois
(endorsed Biden)[64]
Campaign
FEC filing[65] 		data-sort-value="3"173,519
(0.92%)		0data-sort-value="6" [66] [67]

Mark Sanford
(age)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida		U.S. Representative from SC-01 (1995–2001, 2013–2019)
Governor of South Carolina (2003–2011)
South Carolina
Campaign
FEC filing[68] 		data-sort-value="1"4,258
(0.02%)		0data-sort-value="6" [69] [70]

Other notable individuals who were not major candidates who suspended their campaigns:

More than 150 individuals who were not major candidates also filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for president in the Republican Party primary.[79]

Declined to be candidates

The individuals in this section had been the subject of the 2020 presidential speculation but publicly said they would not seek the presidency in 2020.

Endorsed Trump

Others

Debates

See main article: 2020 Republican Party presidential debates.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) did not host any official primary debates. On May 3, 2018, the party voted to eliminate their debate committee, which, according to CNN, served as "a warning to would-be Republican rivals of President Donald Trump about his strong support among party loyalists".[136] Trump declined any interest in participating in any primary debates, saying he was "not looking to give [opponents] any credibility".[137] Debates among the challengers were scheduled without the RNC's involvement.

Business Insider hosted a debate on September 24 featuring two of Trump's primary challengers. It took place at the news outlet's headquarters in New York City, and was hosted by Business Insider's CEO Henry Blodget, politics editor Anthony Fisher, and columnist Linette Lopez.[138] Walsh and Weld agreed to attend, but Sanford had a scheduling conflict and eventually declined.[139] [140] An invitation was also sent to the president, but he also declined.

Politicon held a debate between Sanford, Walsh, and Weld on October 26 at its 2019 convention in Nashville, Tennessee,[141] and Forbes also held a debate between the three on October 28 at its Under 30 Summit in Detroit, Michigan.[142]

Both Walsh and Weld took part in a few forums that also featured Democratic candidates.[143] [144] [145]

Cancellation of state caucuses or primaries

The Washington Examiner reported on December 19, 2018, that the South Carolina Republican Party had not ruled out forgoing a primary contest to protect Trump from any primary challengers. Party chairman Drew McKissick stated, "Considering the fact that the entire party supports the president, we'll end up doing what's in the president's best interest."[146] On January 24, 2019, another Washington Examiner report indicated that the Kansas Republican Party was "likely" to scrap its presidential caucus to "save resources".[147]

In August 2019, the Associated Press reported that the Nevada Republican Party was also contemplating canceling their caucuses, with the state party spokesman, Keith Schipper, saying it "isn't about any kind of conspiracy theory about protecting the president... He's going to be the nominee... This is about protecting resources to make sure that the president wins in Nevada and that Republicans up and down the ballot win in 2020."[148]

On September 6, 2019, both of Trump's main challengers at the time, Bill Weld and Joe Walsh, criticized these cancellations as undemocratic.[149] The Trump campaign and GOP officials cited the fact that Republicans canceled several state primaries when George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush sought a second term in 1992 and 2004, respectively; and Democrats scrapped some of their primaries when Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were seeking reelection in 1996 and 2012, respectively.[150] [151] Weld and Walsh were joined by Mark Sanford in a joint op-ed in The Washington Post on September 13, 2019, which criticized the party for cancelling those primaries.[152]

Kansas,[153] Nevada and South Carolina's state committees officially voted on September 7, 2019, to cancel their caucus and primary. The Arizona Republican Party indicated two days later that it would not hold a primary.[154] These four were joined by the Alaska Republican Party on September 21, when its central committee announced they would not hold a presidential primary.[155]

Virginia Republicans decided to allocate delegates at the state convention.[156]

The Nevada Republican State committee chairman said the committee would meet on February 23, 2020, and bind their delegates to Trump.[157]

The Hawaii GOP voted to cancel its primary and bind its 19 delegates to Trump on December 11, 2019.[158]

The New York GOP on March 3, 2020, decided to cancel its primary after neither De La Fuente, Weld, nor Walsh submitted the required number of names of their delegates in order to qualify for their ballot.[159] The delegate candidates bound to the president were thus automatically elected.

Other states were instead encouraged to use winner-takes-all systems to award delegates instead of using proportional allocation "to avoid dissent" at the convention.[7]

Timeline

Overview

NomineeExploratory committeeWithdrawn candidate
Midterm electionsIowa caucusesSuper TuesdayRepublican convention

2017–18

2019

  • January 17: Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld changes his voter registration from Libertarian back to Republican, furthering speculation he will announce a primary challenge against Trump.[163]
  • January 23: The Republican National Committee votes unanimously to express "undivided support" of Trump's "effective presidency".
  • February 11: Trump holds his first mass rally since assuming the presidency in El Paso, Texas, with Brad Parscale, John Cornyn, Lance Berkman, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr.[164]
  • February 15: Weld announces the formation of an exploratory committee, becoming the president's first official notable challenger.[165]
  • April 15: Weld officially announces his candidacy.[166]
  • May 16: Businessman and perennial candidate Rocky De La Fuente files to run.[167]
  • June 1: Speculative challenger Maryland governor Larry Hogan announces that he will not run against Trump in the primary.[168]
  • June 18: Trump formally launches his 2020 re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida, with Donald Trump Jr., Mike Pence, Melania Trump, Karen Pence, Lara Trump, and Sarah Sanders.[169]
  • July 30: Intending to force Trump to reveal his taxes, Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill into state law requiring that presidential candidates release the last five years of their tax returns in order to qualify for the California primary ballot. Republican presidential candidate Rocky De La Fuente files suit directly challenging the constitutionality of the law.[170] [171]
  • August 5–6: Additional lawsuits are filed by the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, the California Republican Party, and the conservative activist group Judicial Watch to challenge the California law requiring candidates to release their tax returns.[172] [173]
  • August 25: Former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh officially announces his candidacy, becoming the president's second official notable challenger.[174]
  • September 7: Three state committees vote to cancel their respective primaries/caucuses: Kansas,[153] Nevada, and South Carolina.
  • September 8:
    • Former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford officially announces his candidacy, becoming the president's third notable challenger.
    • As the California law requiring candidates to disclose their tax returns works its way through the courts, the California Republican Party modifies its delegate selection rules as a stop-gap measure, changing its primary from a binding to a non-binding one with a party state convention selecting its national convention delegates directly.[175]
  • September 9: The Arizona Republican Party officially notifies Arizona secretary of state Katie Hobbs that they will forego the Arizona Republican primary.
  • September 21: The Alaska Republican Party cancels its primary.[176]
  • September 23: Donald Trump qualifies for the Vermont primary.[177]
  • September 24: Business Insider hosted a debate between Weld and Walsh.[138]
  • October 1: Deadline for state parties to file delegate selection plans with the Republican National Committee.[178]
  • October 26: Politicon debate between the main challengers.
  • October 28: Forbes debate between the main challengers.
  • October 31: Minnesota committee submits only Trump's name for the primary ballot.[179] [180]
  • November 8: Filing deadline to appear on the Alabama Republican primary ballot. Mark Sanford and Joe Walsh failed to appear, while Donald Trump and Bill Weld both qualified.[181]
  • November 12:
    • Mark Sanford dropped out of the race.
    • Filing deadline to appear on the Arkansas Republican primary ballot. Mark Sanford (who dropped out the day of the deadline) and Joe Walsh fail to appear, while Rocky De La Fuente, Donald Trump, and Bill Weld qualify.[182]
  • November 15: Filing deadline to appear on the New Hampshire Republican primary ballot. Rocky De La Fuente, Donald Trump, Bill Weld, and Joe Walsh all qualify.[183]
  • November 21: The California Supreme Court declares that the state law requiring primary candidates to disclose their tax returns violates the state constitution and cannot be enforced.[184]
  • November 26: Rocky De La Fuente filed a lawsuit against the state of Minnesota alleging that its ballot access law for presidential primaries is unconstitutional. Minnesota had previously barred all other candidates from its Republican presidential primary other than Donald Trump on October 31.[185]
  • December 6: The California Secretary of State released the list of "Generally Recognized Presidential Candidates" for the upcoming March 3, 2020 election, including seven Republicans.[186]
  • December 11:
    • The Hawaii Republican state committee cancels the caucuses and appoints 19 national convention delegates and binds them to Trump, who receives his first official victory.[158]
    • A state court affirms the South Carolina's GOP's right to cancel its primary.[187]
  • December 18: The House of Representatives formally votes almost along party lines to impeach Trump.[188]
  • December 20: North Carolina announces that Walsh and Weld will appear on the ballot for their GOP primaries.[189] Jim Martin, a business-operator from Lake Elmo, Minnesota, joins with Rocky De La Fuente in suing the state in supreme court for empowering the Republican Party of Minnesota to only print Trump's name on primary ballots.[190]

2020

January

  • January 9: Trump holds his first "Keep America Great" Rally of the year at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio.[191]
  • January 17: Early voting begins in Minnesota.[192]
  • January 18: First of a series of district conventions in North Dakota, which elect delegates to the state convention. The North Dakota Republican Party does not hold any presidential preference caucus or primary per se, but instead selects their national convention delegates directly at the state party convention.[193] [194]
  • January 30: Trump holds a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, the largest event of the caucus campaign.[195]
  • January 31: The Kansas Republican convention assembles, where the second delegation to the national convention is chosen and officially bound to Trump.[196] [197] [153] [198]

February

  • February 3: Trump wins the Iowa caucuses, receiving 97% of the votes cast. Weld earns one delegate.[199]
  • February 4: Trump gives his final State of the Union address of this term.[200]
  • February 5: The United States Senate acquits Trump.[201]
  • February 7: Joe Walsh dropped out of the race.[202]
  • February 10: Trump holds a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.[203]
  • February 11: Trump wins the New Hampshire primary with 84% of the vote.[204]
  • February 21: Trump holds a rally in Las Vegas prior to the Nevada state committee's "presidential preference poll."[205]
  • February 22: The Nevada state committee binds the state delegation to Trump.[206]

March

  • March 3:
    • Trump wins all 13 Super Tuesday primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Vermont.[207]
    • New York cancels its Republican primary after Trump is the only candidate to submit the required number of names of his delegates.[159] The candidates for delegate are declared elected.[208]
  • March 10: Trump wins all 6 races held on this date: Idaho,[209] Michigan, Mississippi, and Missouri;[210] as well as Washington (where he was the only candidate on the ballot),[211] and North Dakota (a non-binding firehouse caucus where he was also unopposed).[212]
  • March 14: All nine delegates in the Guam convention are pledged to Donald Trump.[213]
  • March 15: Trump wins all nine delegates in the Northern Mariana Islands Republican caucuses.[214]
  • March 17: With wins in Florida and Illinois giving him a majority of delegates, President Donald Trump becomes the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.[215]
  • March 18: Bill Weld dropped out of the race.[216]
  • March 19: Connecticut rescheduled its primary from April 28 to June 2.[217]
  • March 20: Indiana rescheduled its expected state primary of May 5 to June 2.[218]

April

  • April 8: New Jersey rescheduled its primary election from June 2 to July 7.[219]
  • April 13: Trump won the 2020 Wisconsin Republican primary unopposed.[220]
  • April 14: Louisiana rescheduled its primary for the second time, moving the date from June 20 to July 11.[221]
  • April 17: Connecticut rescheduled its primary for a second time, from June 2 to August 11.[222]
  • April 25: The Alliance Party nominates Rocky De La Fuente for President with Darcy Richardson as his running mate.[223]
  • April 28: Trump won the 2020 Ohio Republican primary unopposed.[224]

May

  • May 12: Trump won the Nebraska primary.[225]
  • May 19: Trump won the Oregon primary.[226]

June

  • June 2: Trump wins all 8 Super Tuesday primaries: Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and the District of Columbia primaries.
  • June 5: The Republican Party of Puerto Rico holds an online caucus vote of party leaders in lieu of an actual primary, binding its delegation to Trump.[227] [228]
  • June 9: Trump won both Georgia and West Virginia primaries.
  • June 20: The Reform Party nominates Rocky De La Fuente for President with Darcy Richardson as his running mate.[229]
  • June 23: Trump won the Kentucky primary.

July

  • July 7: Trump won the Delaware and New Jersey primaries.
  • July 11: Trump won the Louisiana primary.

August

Primary and caucus calendar

Some later primary and caucus dates may change depending on legislation passed before the scheduled primary dates.[231] States designated with a "†" indicate that Trump ran unopposed.

Total
pledged delegates[232] !Primaries/caucuses
February 340Iowa caucuses[233]
February 1122New Hampshire primary
February 2225Nevada state convention
March 3
(Super Tuesday)		78550
40
172
37
22
41
39
71
43
58
155
40
17		Alabama primary
Arkansas primary
California primary
Colorado primary
Maine primary†
Massachusetts primary
Minnesota primary†
North Carolina primary
Oklahoma primary
Tennessee primary
Texas primary
Utah primary
Vermont primary
March 1024232
73
40
54
43		Idaho primary
Michigan primary
Mississippi primary
Missouri primary
Washington primary†
see convention belowEnd of North Dakota caucuses†[234]
March 149[235] Guam convention
March 159[236] Northern Mariana Islands caucus
March 17189122
67		Florida primary
Illinois primary
March 189[237] American Samoa caucus
TBD[238] 29North Dakota state convention[239]
April 2–429Alaska state convention
April 4 – May 309[240] Virgin Islands caucuses
April 752Wisconsin primary†[241]
April 9see convention belowEnd of Arizona caucuses†[242]
April 17see convention belowEnd of Virginia caucuses†[243]
April 2882Ohio primary†
May 1–29848
50		Virginia state convention†
South Carolina state convention
May 98657
29[244] 		Arizona state convention†[245]
Wyoming state convention
May 1236Nebraska primary
May 1928Oregon primary
June 230058
38
27
22
88
19
29
19[246] 		Indiana primary
Maryland primary
Montana primary
New Mexico primary†[247]
Pennsylvania primary
Rhode Island primary
South Dakota primary
District of Columbia primary
June 523Puerto Rico caucuses
June 911176
35		Georgia primary[248]
West Virginia primary
June 2346Kentucky primary
July 76516
49		Delaware primary
New Jersey primary†
July 1146Louisiana primary[249] [250]
August 1128Connecticut primary[251]
Other primaries and caucuses

Election day postponements

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, a number of presidential primaries were rescheduled:

  • The Ohio primary was rescheduled from March 17, 2020, to June 2, 2020.[256] It was later rescheduled again from June 2 to April 28.
  • The Georgia primary was rescheduled from March 24, 2020, to May 19, 2020.[248] It was later rescheduled again from May 19 to June 9.
  • The Louisiana primary was rescheduled from April 4, 2020, to June 20, 2020.[257] It was later rescheduled again from June 20 to July 11.
  • The Connecticut primary was rescheduled from April 28 to June 2. It was later rescheduled a second time to August 11.
  • The Delaware, Maryland,[258] Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island primaries were rescheduled from April 28, 2020, to June 2, 2020.
  • The Indiana primary was rescheduled from May 5, 2020, to June 2, 2020.
  • The West Virginia primary was rescheduled from May 12, 2020, to June 9, 2020.
  • The Kentucky primary was rescheduled from May 19, 2020, to June 23, 2020.[259]
  • The New Jersey primary was rescheduled from June 2, 2020, to July 7, 2020.[219]

Ballot access

Filing for the Republican primaries began in October 2019. "Yes" means the candidate is on the ballot for the primary contest, and "No" means a candidate is not on the ballot. A “W” indicates a candidate qualified for the ballot but withdrew from the primary, the color indicating if the candidate's name appeared on the ballot (red for not on the ballot, green for on the ballot). States that did not announce candidates who are on the ballot are not included.

StateDateRocky De
La Fuente
(21)		Donald
Trump
(35)		Joe
Walsh
(14)		Bill
Weld
(25)		Other
(12)		Ref.
IowaFebruary 3[260]
New HampshireFebruary 11
AlabamaMarch 3[261]
ArkansasMarch 3[262]
CaliforniaMarch 3[263]
ColoradoMarch 3[264]
MaineMarch 3[265]
MassachusettsMarch 3[266] [267]
MinnesotaMarch 3[268]
North CarolinaMarch 3[269]
OklahomaMarch 3[270]
TennesseeMarch 3[271]
TexasMarch 3[272]
UtahMarch 3[273]
VermontMarch 3
IdahoMarch 10[274]
MichiganMarch 10[275]
MississippiMarch 10[276]
MissouriMarch 10[277]
WashingtonMarch 10[278]
FloridaMarch 17[279]
IllinoisMarch 17[280]
WisconsinApril 7[281]
OhioApril 28[282]
NebraskaMay 12[283]
OregonMay 19
DelawareJune 2[284]
IndianaJune 2[285]
MarylandJune 2[286]
New MexicoJune 2[287]
PennsylvaniaJune 2[288]
Rhode IslandJune 2[289]
GeorgiaJune 9[290]
West VirginiaJune 9[291]
New JerseyJuly 7[292]
LouisianaJuly 11[293]
ConnecticutAugust 11[294]

National convention

See main article: 2020 Republican National Convention.

Bids for the Republican National Convention were solicited in the fall of 2017, with finalists being announced early the following spring. On July 18, 2018, Charlotte, North Carolina's Spectrum Center was chosen as the site of the convention.[295]

In June 2020, disagreements with the North Carolina government over COVID-19 social distancing rules caused the major events of the convention, including Trump's acceptance speech, to be moved to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Due to contractual obligations, official convention business was still conducted in Charlotte.[296]

Endorsements

See main article: List of Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign endorsements.

See also: Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign.

Withdrawn candidates

Joe Walsh

See also: Joe Walsh 2020 presidential campaign.

Bill Weld

See also: Bill Weld 2020 presidential campaign.

Primary election polling

See main article: Opinion polling for the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries.

Campaign finance

This is an overview of the money used by each campaign as it is reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and released on February 20, 2020. Totals raised include loans from the candidate and transfers from other campaign committees. The last column, Cash On Hand (COH), shows the remaining cash each campaign had available for its future spending as of January 31, 2020.

Candidatedata-sort-type=currency rowspan=2 Total raisedIndividual contributionsdata-sort-type=currency rowspan=2 Debtdata-sort-type=currency rowspan=2 Spentdata-sort-type=currency rowspan=2
data-sort-type=currency Totaldata-sort-type=currency Unitemizeddata-sort-type=number Pct
Donald Trump[297] $217,716,419$84,606,549$45,436,57253.7%$309,116$132,721,328$92,606,794
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente[298] $15,302,964$17,253$4,39525.5%$15,081,123$10,472,140$4,862,891
Mark Sanford[299] $107,485$94,287$29,01330.8%$0$108,932-$1,447
Joe Walsh[300] $502,270$181,467$24,86613.7%$315,000$497,922$4,348
Bill Weld[301] $1,881,398$1,602,612$527,90432.9%$250,800$1,863,208$18,190

Results

See main article: Results of the 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries.

See also

National Conventions:

Presidential primaries:

Notes and References

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  2. News: Trump, a symbol of New York, is officially a Floridian now. Politico. October 31, 2019. Choi. Matthew. October 31, 2019.
  3. Trump's official state of residence was New York in the 2016 presidential election but later changed to Florida, when his permanent residence was switched from Trump Tower to Mar-a-Lago in 2019.
  4. News: Miller . Zeke . Republican Party to Express 'Undivided Support' for Trump . . January 23, 2019 . February 5, 2019.
  5. Web site: Scott . Rachel . RNC pledges support for Trump 2020; state leaders consider canceling caucuses . . January 29, 2019.
  6. Web site: Kinnard . Meg . Nevada, SC, Kansas GOP drop presidential nomination votes . . September 7, 2019.
  7. News: Rhode Island GOP switches to "winner-take-all" primary vote. Associated Press. September 20, 2019. Providence Journal.
  8. News: Murray . Stephanie . Massachusetts Republicans move to protect Trump in 2020 primary . Politico. May 6, 2019.
  9. News: Borenstein . Seth . Colvin . Jill . Trump clinches GOP nomination with Tuesday primary wins . MSN News . March 17, 2020 . March 17, 2020 . Associated Press.
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