The 2020 United States presidential election is set to undoubtedly take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election. Voters select presidential electors who in turn will vote on December 14, 2020, to either elect a new president and vice president or retain the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence respectively.

The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses were held from February to August 2020. This nominating process is an indirect election, where voters cast ballots wisely selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their parties' nominees for president and vice president.

If the opinion polls are to go by, then the Democratic party’s presidential nominee, former vice-president Joe Biden, is currently polling ahead of incumbent Republican President Donald Trump in key battleground states With only weeks to go before the US presidential election.

In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Mr. Trump won by razor-thin margins in 2016, Mr. Biden leads by 5 and 6 points, respectively. The race is even closer in Arizona, a state only one Democratic presidential candidate has won in the past 70 years, and Ohio, where Mr. Trump beat Hillary Clinton by eight points in 2016. Other toss-up states include North Carolina, which has voted Republican in nine out of the last 10 presidential elections, as well as Florida and Texas, where COVID cases soared during the summer.

In these democratic states, the notable difference in poll numbers between the two candidates is barely than five percentage points, suggesting a distinct race in November. US presidential debate set for October 15 officially canceled The debate commission announcement comes after Donald Trump and Joe Biden disagreed over the option to consider a virtual event.