Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign
Campaign	United States presidential election, 2020
Candidate	Donald Trump President of the United States (2017–present) Mike Pence Vice President of the United States (2017–present)
Affiliation	Republican Party
Status	Announced: February 17, 2017 (informal) June 18, 2019 (formal)
Headquarters	Trump Tower Manhattan, New York City, New York
Key people	Michael Glassner (campaign committee manager) John Pence (campaign committee deputy executive director) Bradley Crate (campaign treasurer)
Receipts	US$11,947,118
Slogan	Keep America Great Promises made, promises kept

The Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2020 was a re-election campaign by President of the United States Donald Trump, who took office on January 20, 2017.

Background

Trump started spending money on the 2020 race on November 24, 2016 (only sixteen days after the end of the 2016 election). On January 10, 2017, Politico reported that Trump would be keeping his campaign offices in Trump Tower open in order to lay the groundwork for a re-election campaign. On January 18, Trump revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that he had decided on Keep America Great as his 2020 campaign slogan.

Trump launched his reelection campaign significantly earlier in his presidency than his predecessors did. Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan all declared their candidacies for reelection in the third year of their presidencies.

Election Day and beyond

On November 7, 2020, Trump returns to the White House after golfing, finding a crowd cheering for his apparent loss against Joe Biden.

Early on November 4, despite the fact that no clear winner of the election had been determined, Trump declared victory from the White House, stating that he "did win the election". At that point, results from states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia were unclear. Although Trump was leading in the vote count of those states at the time, experts believed that many of the still-uncounted votes—which included votes from large cities and mail-in ballots—would turn out to favor Biden.

On November 5, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign to stop vote-counting in Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign had alleged that its observers were not given access to observe the vote, but during the hearing, its lawyers admitted that its observers were already present in the vote-counting room. Also that day, a state judge dismissed another lawsuit by the Trump campaign that alleged that in Georgia, late-arriving ballots were counted. The judge ruled that no evidence had been produced that the ballots were late. Meanwhile in Michigan, a state judge dismissed the Trump's campaign's lawsuit requesting a pause in vote-counting to allow access to observers, as the judge noted that vote-counting had already finished in Michigan.

By November 6, a growing number of Trump officials had admitted that the incumbent's loss was probable. On that day, election-calling organization Decision Desk HQ forecast that Trump had lost the election to Biden.

On November 7, 2020, Trump lost his re-election bid to former Vice President Joe Biden.

Rallies

The first rally paid for by the campaign was held on February 18, 2017, in Melbourne, Florida, and was attended by an estimated 9,000 supporters.

The campaign's second rally was held a month later in Nashville, Tennessee on March 15, and it was the 250th birthday of Andrew Jackson. Before the rally, Trump paid tribute to Jackson and laid a wreath at his tomb. A third rally was held by the campaign in Louisville on March 20, days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

Trump held his fourth campaign rally with Vice President Mike Pence on April 29 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the 100th day of Trump's presidency.

In June, Trump began campaigning in Iowa. Iowa is considered to be a perennial swing state. Trump held his sixth campaign rally on July 25 at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio.

Trump held his seventh campaign rally at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, West Virginia on August 3.

Trump held his eighth campaign rally on August 22 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump held a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The rally was notable for a surprisingly low turnout . However the rally managed to reach 6.7 million views online according to fox news it stated that this rally was its highest Saturday primetime viewership in network history.

Images for kids

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  Trump speaking at his first campaign rally in Florida

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  Trump and Pence arrive in Pennsylvania on April 29 for their rally in Harrisburg.

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  Counter-protesters at the Pittsburgh Not Paris Rally

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  Trump in Iowa holding his fifth official rally of the campaign

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  Donald and Melania Trump at the campaign's sixth rally

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  Crowd at the Mother of All Rallies

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  Brad Parscale was chosen as Trump's 2020 campaign manager in February 2018.

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  Trump at a rally in Omaha, Nebraska on October 27

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  Sign with Pence removed after Pence fell out of favor

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  Sign for 2020 updated for 2024

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  Logo of the Trump Make America Great Again Committee