2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
selection of the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 2020 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of elections by the Democratic Party to select the about 3,979 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Those delegates picked the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 United States presidential election.
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1,990 of 3,979[lower-alpha 1] pledged delegate votes needed to win the presidential nomination at the convention's first ballot.[1] (2,376 of all 4,750[lower-alpha 2] delegate votes needed to win any subsequent ballots at a contested convention.)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The elections took place from February to August 2020 in all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, and Democrats Abroad.
On June 5, 2020, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates, securing the nomination.[2]