Presidential Primaries In 2020

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It is 3 years away from the 2020 presidential elections. Some candidates from the Republican Party and Democratic Party have declared to vie for the post while others have just shown interest. Moreover, there are other potential candidates who are also likely to participate. This implies that the 2020 presidential elections will be a neck to neck race right from the party primaries to the general election primary issues.
According to the American constitution, it provides the procedure that presidential election takes. It starts by stating who is eligible to serve as the president of United States. The person must be: at least 35 years old, a resident in the United States for at least 14 years and a United States citizen by natural
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The independents who caucus with the Democratic Party holds the other two seats. In the forth coming elections, the democrats will be defending 25 seats inclusive of the 2 seats held by the independents while the republicans will have only 8 seats. Steve Bannon who is a conservative strategist is leading a very powerful and growing coalition for the republicans with an intention of reforming the party from within. The Republican Party presidential primaries in 2020 will take a series of electoral process which will be held in the following area: the fifty states of U.S, the five territories of U.S and the District of Columbia. The party will be required to choose about 2,472 delegates during the election primaries, who will form part of the Republican National Convention so as to choose the party nominee who will represent the party in the 2020 general elections for the presidential post. In addition, the party delegates are responsible of approving the running mate that is the vice president selected by the nominee and the party …show more content…
He also got a slew of very bad polling data.
Polls from Gallup, CNN, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University all showed Trump's approval rating between 33 percent and 37 percent — among the lowest numbers of his entire presidency. And that same CNN poll showed Democrats taking a nearly unheard-of 18-point lead in the 2018 midterm generic ballot, becoming just the latest poll to show a very bad environment for not just Trump but his party, too.
And even one of Trump's better polls — from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal — showed that just 36 percent of Americans said they would at least "probably" vote to reelect Trump in 2020. A majority (52 percent) said they would at least "probably" vote for someone else. While just 18 percent said they would "definitely" vote for Trump, 38 percent said they would "definitely" vote against him.
Given all of that, and with just one year left until the unofficial start of the 2020 presidential race, you can bet a slew of Democrats are starting to get anxious to run against Trump. And depending on how that 2018 election turns out, you may see a bunch of them get into the race quickly. The field appears certain to be extremely big and wide open, and it could reward those who can lock down a base of support before others with claims to those same bases get

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