As the map above shows, some battleground states have a lot more electoral college votes on offer than others so candidates often spend a lot more time campaigning in them.
"The House of Representatives voted an emergency grant of $25 billion to the post office to facilitate the predicted flood of mail ballots.In election cycles with incumbent presidents running for re-election, the race for their party nomination are usually Several Republican state committees have scrapped their respective primaries or caucuses.In addition, the Trump campaign urged Republican state committees that used proportional methods to award delegates in 2016 (where a state's delegates are basically divided proportionally among the candidates based on the vote percentage) to switch to a "Nevertheless, reports arose beginning in August 2017 that members of the Republican Party were preparing a "shadow campaign" against the president, particularly from the moderate or establishment wings of the party. As election day approaches, polling companies will be trying to gauge the mood of the nation by asking voters which candidate they prefer. These are external links and will open in a new window Published. August 17, 2020.

Vote Watch Election results could be messy. At the moment, polls in the battleground states look good for Joe Biden, but there's a long way to go and things can change very quickly, especially when Donald Trump's involved.The polls suggest Mr Biden has big leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - three industrial states his Republican rival won by margins of less than 1% to clinch victory in 2016. Wale Odunsi. By The Visual and Data Journalism Team BBC News. Support for his approach peaked in mid-March after he declared a national emergency and made $50 billion available to states to stop the spread of the virus. Jacob Pramuk @jacobpramuk. US election: Does Trump have power to delay it? Trump vs Biden: Five US 2020 election survey released. Holidaymakers who wish to avoid self-isolation need to get back to the UK before new rules kick in on Saturday.

US election 2020 polls: Who is ahead - Trump or Biden? It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election.Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will vote on December 14, 2020, to either elect a new president and vice president or reelect the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence respectively. The The coronavirus pandemic has dominated headlines in the US since the start of the year and the response to President Trump's actions has been split predictably along party lines.

Biden maintains lead over Trump in 2020 swing states, new CNBC/Change Research poll says.

Those poll numbers may help explain his decision to Betting markets, however, are certainly not writing Mr Trump off just yet. Trump also floated the idea that the 2020 election would need to be redone should Americans rely on a system that would let everyone vote by mail. See how President Trump is polling against challenger Joe Biden as each vies to win the 2020 presidential election The winner of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021. But it's not entirely true. By. It is expected that more than 30 percent of eligible American voters will be The presidential election will occur simultaneously with elections to the Several events related to the 2020 presidential election have been altered or postponed due to the ongoing Some presidential primary elections were severely disrupted by corona virus-related issues, including long lines at polling places, greatly increased requests for absentee ballots, and technology issues.Government response to the impact of the pandemic from the Trump administration, coupled to the differing positions taken by congressional Democrats and Republicans regarding Due to the coronavirus pandemic spread in the United States, and the subsequent effects such as the stay-at-home order and On June 20, despite continuing concerns over COVID-19,On February 13, 2020, American intelligence officials advised members of the During the election, multiple articles have been published suggesting that Trump may not, or will not, accept the election results, owing primarily to his In April 2020, Biden suggested that Trump may try to delay the election, saying that Trump "is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can't be held. At this point, 55% of Americans approved of his actions, according to But any support he had from Democrats disappeared after that, while Republicans continued to back their president.By last month, however, data suggested even his own supporters had begun to question his response as states in the south and the west of the country dealt with renewed outbreaks of the virus. These are the places where the election will be won and lost and are known as battleground states.