2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 7
The 7th congressional district encompasses most of Seattle, as well Edmonds, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Vashon Island, and Burien. The incumbent is Democrat Pramila Jayapal, who was reelected with 83.6% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 8
The 8th district encompasses the eastern suburbs of Seattle including Sammamish, Maple Valley, Covington, Hobart, Issaquah, and Auburn and stretches into rural central Washington, including Chelan County and Kittitas County, as well as taking in eastern Pierce County. The incumbent is Democrat Kim Schrier, who flipped the district and was elected with 52.4% of the vote.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 9
The 9th congressional district stretches from small parts of northeastern Tacoma up to southeastern Seattle, taking in the surrounding suburbs, including Federal Way, Des Moines, Kent, SeaTac, Renton, Mercer Island, and Bellevue. The incumbent is Democrat Adam Smith, who was re-elected with 67.9% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, District 10
The 10th district includes Olympia and the Tacoma suburbs, including Puyallup, Lakewood, and University Place. The incumbent is Democrat Denny Heck, who was re-elected with 61.5% of the vote in 2018. On December 4, 2019, Heck announced that he will retire from Congress and not seek re-election.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the 3 U.S. Representatives from the state of West Virginia, one from each of the state's 3 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia
Republicans held all of their seats in the West Virginia delegation with increased margins from 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, District 1
The 1st district encompasses the industrial areas of the northern Panhandle including Wheeling, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Morgantown, and Parkersburg. The incumbent is Republican David McKinley, who was re-elected with 64.6% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, District 2
The 2nd district is located in the central region of the state, stretching from Charleston into the Eastern Panhandle. The incumbent is Republican Alex Mooney, who was re-elected with 53.9% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, District 3
The 3rd district encompasses southern West Virginia, taking in Huntington, Bluefield, Princeton and Beckley. The incumbent is Republican Carol Miller, who was elected with 56.4% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the 8 U.S. Representatives from the state of Wisconsin, one from each of the state's 8 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primaries were held on August 11, 2020.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, Overview, District
Results of the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin by district:


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 1
The 1st district is based in southeastern Wisconsin, taking in Janesville, Kenosha, and Racine. The incumbent is Republican Bryan Steil, who was elected with 54.6% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 2
The 2nd congressional district covers Dane County, Iowa County, Lafayette County, Sauk County and Green County, as well as portions of Richland County and Rock County. The district includes Madison, the state's capital, its suburbs and some of the surrounding areas. The incumbent is Democrat Mark Pocan, who was elected with 97% of the vote in 2018, without major-party opposition.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 3
The 3rd district takes in the Driftless Area in southwestern Wisconsin including Eau Claire and La Crosse. The incumbent is Democrat Ron Kind, who was reelected with 59.7% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 4
The 4th district encompasses Milwaukee County, taking in the city of Milwaukee and its working-class suburbs of Cudahy, St. Francis, South Milwaukee, and West Milwaukee, as well as the North Shore communities of Glendale, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, Fox Point, Bayside, and Brown Deer. The incumbent is Democrat Gwen Moore, who was reelected with 75.6% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 5
The 5th district takes in the northern and western suburbs of Milwaukee, including Washington County, Jefferson County, as well as most of Waukesha County. The incumbent is Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, who was reelected with 61.9% of the vote in 2018. Sensenbrenner announced on September 4, 2019, that he would not seek re-election.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 6
The 6th district is based in east-central Wisconsin, encompassing part of the Fox River Valley, and takes in Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, and Sheboygan. The incumbent is Republican Glenn Grothman, who was reelected with 55.4% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 7
The 7th district is located in northwestern Wisconsin and includes Wausau and Superior. After the September 2019 resignation of Sean Duffy, Republican Tom Tiffany won a May 2020 special election to serve out the remainder of Duffy's term with 57.2% of the vote.


2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, District 8
The 8th district encompasses northeastern Wisconsin, including Green Bay and Appleton. The incumbent is Republican Mike Gallagher, who was reelected with 63.7% of the vote in 2018.


2020 United States Men's Curling Championship
The 2020 United States Men's Curling Championship was held from February 8 to 15, 2020 at the Eastern Washington University Recreation Center in Spokane, Washington. The event was held in conjunction with the 2020 United States Women's Curling Championship. John Shuster claimed his seventh United States Championship, defeating Rich Ruohonen in the final.


2020 United States Men's Curling Championship
Since Team Shuster met certain prerequisites in terms of world ranking points (60 points year-to-date or ranked 70th or higher) they would have represented the United States at the 2020 World Men's Curling Championship, which was scheduled to be held in Glasgow, Scotland from March 28 to April 5, 2020 but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States Champions also earn a spot at the final Grand Slam of the season, the Champions Cup, which was also cancelled due to the pandemic. Team Shuster's qualification will instead carry over to the 2021 Champions Cup.


2020 United States Men's Curling Championship, Qualification
There were three ways for teams to qualify for the championship:


2020 United States Men's Curling Championship, Qualification, Challenge Round
Sixteen teams competed at the 2020 United States Men's Challenge Round, held at the Grand Forks Curling Club in Grand Forks, North Dakota, from January 2 to 5. Through a triple knockout competition the top four teams secured a spot at the National Championship. Jed Brundidge was the first to secure a spot, defeating Dominik Märki in the 'A' bracket final. Märki then dropped down to the 'B' bracket final and had another opportunity to play for a spot in the Nationals, but this time lost to Kyle Kakela who took the second Nationals berth. In the 'C' bracket Märki finally earned their spot when they defeated Steven Birklid's team. On the other side of the 'C' bracket Luc Violette defeated Nicholas Connolly for the fourth and final Nationals berth. Steven Birklid's team finished the Challenge Round as the alternate team.


2020 United States Men's Curling Championship, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00).


2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The 2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from February 27 to March 1 at the Bemidji Curling Club in Bemidji, Minnesota. The twelve teams were divided into two pools of six teams each. Each pool played a full round robin with the top three from each pool proceeding to the playoffs. The winning team of Tabitha Peterson and Joe Polo was supposed to represent the United States at the 2020 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Kelowna, Canada but the event got cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will instead compete at the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland as the 2021 U.S. Mixed Doubles National Championship was postponed due to the pandemic.


2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Tabitha Peterson and Joe Polo won the event with a 7–4 win over defending champions Cory Christensen and John Shuster in the final. Peterson and Polo made the final in the 2017 championship but lost to siblings Becca Hamilton and Matt Hamilton 7–6. Two-time champions Sarah Anderson and Korey Dropkin won the bronze medal with a 7–6 extra end win over Monica Walker and Alex Leichter. Anderson and Dropkin won the championship in 2015 and 2018 and had a quarterfinal finish in 2019.


2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member, Lakeland PBS, covered the tournament. This included streaming the entire tournament and broadcasting the semifinals and finals live on the television channel.


2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, Qualification, Challenge Round
Sixteen teams played at the 2020 United States Mixed Doubles Challenge Round, held in Portage, Wisconsin from December 19 to 22, 2019. Through a triple knockout competition the top three teams secured the final team spots at the Mixed Doubles Championship. Monica Walker and Alex Leichter were the first to clinch a championship berth when they defeated Katherine Gourianova and Eli Clawson in the 'A' bracket final.


2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, Qualification, Challenge Round
Gourianova and Clawson then dropped down to the 'B' bracket final where they had another opportunity to earn one of the final two berths, which they did when they defeated Becca Wood and Sean Franey. Wood and Franey then faced Kim Rhyme and Jason Smith in the 'C' bracket final for the third and final championship berth, which Rhyme and Smith secured with a 9-4 win.


2020 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, Round robin results
All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00).


2020 United States Olympic Team Trials (wrestling)
The 2020 United States Olympic Team Trials for wrestling were held at the Dickies Arena of Fort Worth, Texas, on April 2–3, 2021. This event determined the representative of the United States of America for the 2020 Summer Olympics at each Olympic weight class. Originally scheduled to take place at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, Pennsylvania and on April 4–5, 2020, this event was postponed by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee and USA Wrestling on March 13, 2020, along with the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 United States Olympic Team Trials (wrestling), Qualification procedures, Direct qualification
To qualify for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials directly, a wrestler must have achieved a certain result at at least one of the determined qualifying tournaments (set by USA Wrestling). The procedures were the following:


2020 United States Olympic Team Trials (wrestling), Qualification procedures, Indirect qualification
To qualify for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials indirectly, a wrestler was required to have certain past accolades that could back up their spot. The required accomplishments were the following:


2020 United States Olympic Team Trials (wrestling), Qualification procedures, Collegiate qualification
These athletes have qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials through collegiate wrestling.


2020 United States Olympic Team Trials (wrestling), Qualification procedures, Collegiate qualification
Men's Freestyle – Greco–Roman - 2021 NCAA Division I Championships


2020 United States Olympic Team Trials (wrestling), Qualification procedures, Collegiate qualification
Women's Freestyle - 2021 NAIA Women's Wrestling National Invitational Championships


2020 United States Olympic Team Trials (wrestling), Qualification procedures, Qualified Non-Competitors
These qualified athletes have chosen or were unable to compete in the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming)
The 2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials was held at CHI Health Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska for a fourth consecutive time. Originally scheduled from June 21 – 28, 2020, it was rescheduled to June 4 – 7, 2021 (Wave I) and June 13 – 20, 2021 (Wave II) due to the coronavirus pandemic resulting in the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics to 2021. The meet served as the national championships in swimming for the United States. Those qualifying competed for the United States in swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Qualification criteria
A maximum of 52 swimmers (26 of each sex, not including open water swimmers) were chosen for the 2020 Summer Olympics from Wave II. To make the Olympic team, a swimmer must place in the top two in one of the fourteen individual events. To be considered for the U.S. 4×100-meter and 4×200-meter freestyle relay teams, a swimmer must place in the top six in the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle, respectively. Swimmers must have achieved a time standard to be eligible to compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials:


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Two wave structure
In January 2021, USA Swimming announced its decision to break the Olympic Trials into two meets called waves. This decision was made in part to follow social distancing protocols and keep attendees, athletes, and workers safer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each wave had a different set of qualification time standards. The time standards took effect January 28, 2021 and an initial qualifying period for both waves ended May 30, 2021. Wave I swimmers who met the time standards for Wave II at the Wave I meet and finished first or second in their event qualified to compete at the Wave II meet.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Two wave structure
A total of 50 swimmers from Wave I qualified to compete in Wave II. The first swimmer who swam in the Wave I meet and advanced to a second swim, semifinal or final, at the Wave II meet was Heather MacCausland in the women's 100-meter breaststroke on June 14, 2021. The most watched YouTube video from the entire Olympic Trials came from Wave I not Wave II. It was a clip of Kayla Han winning the B-final of the women's 400-meter individual medley and breaking a USA Swimming national age group record in the process.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Two wave structure
Between Wave I and Wave II, 2,285 individuals competed at the 2020 Olympic Trials, a decrease of over 700 swimmers from the 2016 Olympic Trials. As a whole, proportionally fewer Wave I swimmers and proportionally more Wave II swimmers swam faster than their seed times compared to swimmers at the 2016 Olympic Trials.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Events
The meet featured twenty-eight individual events in a long course (50-meter) pool—fourteen events for men and fourteen events for women. Events 200 meters and shorter were held with preliminaries, semifinals and finals, while events 400 meters and longer were held with preliminaries and finals. Semifinals featured sixteen swimmers in two heats; the finals included eight swimmers in a single heat. Preliminaries were seeded with ten lanes. Event order, which mimicked that of the 2020 Olympics, with the exception of the Olympic relay events, were the following for Wave II:


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), U.S. Olympic Team
The following swimmers qualified to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics (for pool events):


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), U.S. Olympic Team, Men
Michael Andrew, Zach Apple, Hunter Armstrong, Bowe Becker, Gunnar Bentz, Michael Brinegar, Patrick Callan, Brooks Curry, Caeleb Dressel, Nic Fink, Bobby Finke, Townley Haas, Zach Harting, Chase Kalisz, Drew Kibler, Jay Litherland, Bryce Mefford, Jake Mitchell, Ryan Murphy, Blake Pieroni, Andrew Seliskar, Tom Shields, Kieran Smith, Andrew Wilson.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), U.S. Olympic Team, Women
Phoebe Bacon, Erika Brown, Claire Curzan, Catie DeLoof, Kate Douglass, Hali Flickinger, Brooke Forde, Katie Grimes, Natalie Hinds, Torri Huske, Lydia Jacoby, Lilly King, Annie Lazor, Katie Ledecky, Paige Madden, Simone Manuel, Katie McLaughlin, Allison Schmitt, Bella Sims, Regan Smith, Olivia Smoliga, Erica Sullivan, Alex Walsh, Abbey Weitzeil, Emma Weyant, Rhyan White.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Results
Key:  Highlighted swimmers achieved the qualification conditions to be included in the Olympic team in that respective event.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Television coverage and viewership
Two national television networks covered the US Olympic Trials in swimming in the United States, NBC and NBCSN. NBCSN aired the heats later the same day and NBC aired the finals and some of the semifinals same day. This coverage was part of the NBC Olympics television and digital programming covering the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in various sports that set a new record in number of hours of coverage of the Olympic Trials for all sports in the United States at 85.25 hours.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (swimming), Television coverage and viewership
Sunday coverage of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in swimming on NBC made it into the top 20 most viewed programs for the day. For the top five most viewed days of U.S. Olympic Team Trials across all sports, the swimming team trials had one day make it in the top five along with two days from team trials in track and field and two days from gymnastics team trials.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
The 2020 United States Olympic Trials for track and field were held in Eugene, Oregon, after an initial bid for Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut, California failed. This was the first major event for the redesigned and rebuilt Hayward Field.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
Organized by USA Track and Field and TrackTown USA, the ten-day competition was originally scheduled for June 19–28, 2020, but was rescheduled to June 18–27, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics to 2021. It is serving as the national championships in track and field for the United States.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
The results of the event determined qualification for the American Olympic team at the 2020 Summer Olympics, to be held in Tokyo. Provided they had achieved the Olympic standard or are in the World Athletics ranking quota, the top three athletes in each event gained a place on the Olympic team. In the event that a leading athlete did not hold the standard, or an athlete withdrew, the next highest finishing athlete with the standard was selected instead. USA Track and Field announced their Olympic roster based on these guidelines on July 6, 2021.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
The trials for the men's and women's marathon were held on February 29, 2020 in Atlanta and the trials for the men's 50 km race walk were held on January 25, 2020 at San Diego Christian College and the Santee Town Center station in Santee, California.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
Multiple rising high school and collegiate track athletes such as Nico Young, Erriyon Knighton, Hobbs Kessler, and Sha'Carri Richardson participated in the trials. Multiple world-leads, US records, and world records were broken during the trials such as Sydney McLaughlin's 400m hurdles WR of 51.90 during the finals, Erriyon Knighton's U-18 and U-20 200m record of 19.84 in the finals, and Ryan Crouser's shot put WR of 23.37m.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Men's results
Key:≠ Athlete without Olympic qualifying standard, not selected  Athlete without Olympic qualifying standard, invited to Olympics based on world list position


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
USA Track & Field sets minimum performances standards for entry into the national championships. In order to merit entry into the championships, an athlete must meet that standard, or better, within a set time frame prior to the competition.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
All qualifying performances for the U.S. Olympic Trials must be attained on a standard outdoor track in the period


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
or on an indoor track, in the same event, in the period


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
except for the 10,000 meters, Decathlon & Heptathlon and 20 km Race Walks, whose qualifying period is from


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
The qualifying performance for the men's 50 km Race Walk must be attained in the period


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
There are also automatic qualifying criteria outside of the entry standards. Athletes who are the reigning indoor or outdoor national champion are automatically qualified to enter that event.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
Qualifying marks must be attained in a 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials event. No qualifying marks will be allowed using alternate events, except for the men's Mile run as follows: An appeal to use a Mile qualifying mark for the 1500 will be accepted only if the mile mark was made during the 2020 season, from Wednesday, January 1, 2020 through Sunday, June 6, 2021, and the mark is 3:54.00 or better.


2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Qualification
For events over distances from 100 m to 800 m, performances will only be accepted if fully automatic timing (FAT) is used. For performances beyond that distance, FAT times are also used, but in the event that the athlete has not recorded a FAT performance, a manually recorded time may be used. There will be no adjustment for marks made at altitude. Wind-assisted performances will not be accepted for 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis
The 2020-2021 United States Postal Service crisis is a series of events that have caused backlogs and delays in the delivery of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020. The delays have had substantial legal, political, economic, and health repercussions.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis
There is controversy and speculation about whether the delays are unintended consequences of restructuring operations, or if they were intentionally created for political and/or financial gain. DeJoy has supported and donated to former President Donald Trump, who has publicly linked his opposition to emergency funding for the Postal Service to his desire to restrict voting by mail in the 2020 elections.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis
On August 18, 2020, under heavy political and legal pressure, DeJoy announced that he would be "suspending" the policy changes until after the November 2020 election. He testified to the Senate on August 21, and to the House of Representatives on August 24, concerning the changes and their effects.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Background
The USPS has had a history of budget deficits dating back to a 2006 law requiring it to prepay retiree health benefits 75 years in advance, a provision to which no other government agency or private corporation is subject. This law, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, was passed during a lame-duck session, and shepherded through the Senate by Senator Susan Collins of Maine.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Background
According to Tom Davis (the bill's sponsor), the Bush administration threatened to veto the legislation unless they added the provision regarding funding the employee benefits in advance with the objective of using that money to reduce the federal deficit. The agency's struggles were compounded by the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent recession, which caused overall mail volume to fall by one-third, and again by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Changes
Businessman and Trump campaign megadonor Louis DeJoy was sworn in as postmaster general on June 15, 2020; he is the first person since 1992 to assume the position without any prior experience in the United States Postal Service.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Changes
Upon taking office DeJoy immediately began taking measures to reduce costs, such as banning the use of overtime and extra trips to deliver mail. After criticism, DeJoy admitted that these measures were causing delays in mail delivery, but said they would eventually improve service. DeJoy also reorganized USPS leadership and staffing. The changes were described in a memo DeJoy released on August 7, 2020.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Changes
Hundreds of high-speed mail sorting machines were dismantled and removed from postal facilities, raising concerns that mailed ballots for the November 3 election might not reach election offices on time. It was later explained that such machines are taken offline every year in response to diminishing volumes of letter mail, and that 671 of the machines (about 10 percent of the total) in 49 states had been slated for removal this year, 618 of them by August 1. After DeJoy's announcement that he would suspend his changes, the Postal Service's director of maintenance instructed employees that "they are not to reconnect/reinstall machines that have previously been disconnected without approval from HQ Maintenance, no matter what direction they are getting from their plant manager."


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Changes
Mail collection boxes were removed from the streets in many cities. However, the Postal Service has been removing mail collection boxes as a cost-cutting measure for years — between 1985 and 2011, the number of mail collection boxes was reduced by 60% — so it remains unclear if the removals are connected to DeJoy's changes. After photos of boxes being removed were spread on social media, a Postal Service spokesman said they were being moved to higher-traffic areas but that the removals would stop until after the election.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Changes
On August 18, after weeks of heavy criticism and the day after lawsuits against the Postal Service and DeJoy personally were filed in federal court by several individuals, DeJoy announced that he would suspend all the changes until after the November election, "to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail." He said he would reinstate overtime hours, roll back service reductions, and halt the removal of mail sorting machines and collection boxes. However, 95 percent of the mail sorting machines that were planned for removal had already been removed, and in testimony to the Senate, DeJoy expressed that he had no intention of replacing them.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Legal issues
Federal law prohibits any employee of the Postal Service from delaying mail. The Postal Service inspector general has opened an investigation into the changes made by DeJoy, including any possible conflicts of interest stemming from his $30 million ownership stake in XPO Logistics, which processes mail for the USPS.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Legal issues
Several state attorneys general are also beginning investigations to determine if DeJoy violated state election laws and are coordinating their efforts. As of August 18, 2020, attorneys general from at least twenty states have filed federal lawsuits against the USPS and DeJoy. One lawsuit is being led by Washington state, joined by Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin; a second is being led by Pennsylvania, joined by California, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. All of the participating attorneys general are Democrats.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Legal issues
The state lawsuits were filed in spite of DeJoy's announcement that he would be suspending the changes. On September 17, 2020, federal judge Stanley Bastian, in response to the lawsuit led by Washington state, issued a temporary injunction barring the Postal Service from proceeding with the planned changes, describing them as "a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the postal service."


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Legal issues
U.S. representative Bill Pascrell requested the New Jersey attorney general to empanel a grand jury to investigate whether any state election laws were violated; the AG declined comment. Arizona secretary of state Katie Hobbs said, "In Arizona, it's against the law to 'delay the delivery of a ballot.' I've asked Attorney General Brnovich to investigate recent changes at USPS, and whether or not the Trump administration has committed a crime."


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Legal issues
A number of individuals, including candidates for public office, have filed lawsuits in federal court against the Postal Service, DeJoy and Trump in response to the crisis, and many more are expected.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Legal issues
Questions have been raised by observers and journalists about a possible conflict of interest involving DeJoy's connections to XPO Logistics. The company received $14 million in contracts in ten weeks between June and September 2020. The figure for the corresponding period in 2019 was $3.4 million.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Legal issues
On November 4, 2020, federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered DeJoy to ″sweep″ USPS facilities for undelivered mail-in ballots, and to immediately deliver any they find. DeJoy failed to comply, and judge Sullivan announced that DeJoy "should" be deposed.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues
Voting by mail has become an increasingly common practice in the United States. The share of voters nationwide who submit their ballots by mail has grown from about 8 percent in 1996 to about 21 percent in 2016. Members of the military, their families, and military contractors are able to vote by mail if they are not currently stationed in their permanent home location; more than 600,000 such ballots were cast in the 2016 election. The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 was anticipated to cause a large increase in mail voting because of the possible danger of congregating at polling places. For the 2020 election, a state-by-state analysis concluded that 76 percent of Americans were eligible to vote by mail in 2020, a record number. The analysis predicted that 80 million ballots could be cast by mail in 2020, more than double the number in 2016.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues
Because of the operational changes causing delays in mail delivery, the Postal Service sent a letter to 46 U.S. states in July 2020, warning each state that the service might not be able to meet that state's deadlines for requesting and casting absentee ballots.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues
Ultimately, a record number of voters, in excess of 65.6 million, would cast postal votes.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues, Donald Trump's involvement
Starting in April 2020, President Donald Trump began to speak out against voting by mail, claiming without evidence that it is subject to massive fraud, and threatening to take steps to prevent states from sending absentee ballots to voters. Despite his unverified claims of fraud, Trump himself voted by mail in recent elections, as did First Lady Melania Trump and many senior administration officials. On August 13, 2020, in an interview with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo, Trump said he was blocking emergency funding for the USPS because of his opposition to mail-in voting.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues, Donald Trump's involvement
Trump later defended the changes being made by DeJoy, saying that DeJoy wanted to "make the Post Office great again", a reference to Trump's own political slogan, "Make America Great Again". Former U.S. president Barack Obama accused Trump of deliberately "kneecapping" the Postal Service in order to discourage people from voting.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues, Donald Trump's involvement
Contrary to Trump's stated belief that vote by mail harms Republicans, there is no evidence that it benefits one party or the other, and both parties have incorporated it into their get-out-the-vote strategies for years. However, nonpartisan experts have warned that delays in the delivery of mail-in ballots could be used by Trump to "steal the election" in the event that more Democrats than Republicans choose to vote by mail in the November 2020 elections.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues, Donald Trump's involvement
Public polling indicates that more Democrats plan to vote by mail in the elections than Republicans, possibly due to Trump's false claims of vote by mail being riddled with fraud. In addition, there is a recurring phenomenon in U.S. elections called the "blue shift", whereby in-person votes tallied on election night favor Republicans, then later-tallied ballots (including mailed ballots) shift the final result toward the Democrats.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues, Donald Trump's involvement
Longtime Republican elections lawyer and former Federal Election Commission chairman Trevor Potter stated that under such a scenario, Trump could build up a lead among ballots cast on Election Day, claim victory, and then say, "stop counting ballots because all those absentee ballots are illegitimate." DeJoy denied accusations from members of Congress and voting rights advocates that the delivery delays were designed to sabotage election mail on Trump's behalf.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Political issues, Donald Trump's involvement
Trump met with DeJoy at the White House on August 3, but when initially asked on August 9, Trump denied that he had spoken to DeJoy. After reports emerged on August 14 of the August 3 meeting, White House spokesman Judd Deere described it as "congratulatory", and Trump on August 17 denied having instructed DeJoy to slow mail delivery, saying he "wouldn't do that."


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Economic issues
Some companies have complained that the delays are hurting their business, since their reputation is dependent on being able to deliver their wares reliably and promptly. A Wisconsin businessman said that with the recent changes, some shipments that might once have been no more than a day late now go missing for weeks, and Priority Mail and Express Mail can now take a week or more. The problems are especially severe for small businesses.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Economic issues
Individuals are also reporting serious economic problems due to delayed or missing mail: not receiving checks or important papers that they are expecting, or having their bill payments arrive at the company late so that they get charged a penalty. In some cities people report getting no mail at all for two or three weeks, and standing in line at the post office to see if it is there.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Health issues
Most prescribed medications from the Veterans Administration are sent by mail. Those medications are supposed to arrive within three to five days of being mailed. Since the operational changes imposed by DeJoy, veterans complain that such prescription deliveries have been delayed, often by weeks. Other health essentials such as oxygen tubes are also reportedly being delayed for weeks. A letter to DeJoy from 31 U.S. senators asked him to reassess the effect of his changes on veterans.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Animal deaths and food spoilage
Maine farmers reported that thousands of baby chicks had died in the mail after delays at the processing center in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. After overtime was cut at a South Los Angeles sorting facility, packages piled up and blocked machines, rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, baby chicks were found dead inside their boxes, and the building filled with gnats.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Postal workers' reactions
DeJoy ordered changes with little input from Postal Service workers or their labor unions. In multiple states, postal workers and union leaders reported that the changes resulted in low worker morale.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Postal workers' reactions
Some postal workers, aiming to prevent adverse effects on the election and on customer service, resisted the changes ordered by DeJoy. For example, in New York, some mechanics disregarded an order to dismantle and remove a mail-sorting machine; in Michigan, some letter carriers disregarded an order to leave election mail behind; and in Ohio, some postal workers took steps to ensure that delayed prescriptions and benefit payments were delivered. Workers in at least two plants in Washington state reassembled their letter-sorting machines in the week that DeJoy announced he would suspend his changes, despite the Postal Service's national order not to reinstall the machines.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Postal workers' reactions
Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, criticized the DeJoy orders. Asked in August 2020 whether he believed DeJoy was attempting "to sabotage the election by making cuts that slow down the flow of mail," Dimondstein said: "I can't really judge the motivation. We just have to look at the deeds and the deeds thus far is the new Postmaster General has instituted a number of policies that are truly slowing down mail. The customers see it. We're hearing from customers all over the country. The postal workers see it. Mail is getting backed up."


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Protests
The crisis precipitated protests against the changes made by DeJoy, with protesters calling for the postmaster general's resignation. One protest took place on August 15 outside of DeJoy's home in Washington, D.C.; a second took place on August 16 at his home in Greensboro, North Carolina.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
On August 16, 2020, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ended a recess of the House of Representatives that had been scheduled to last until the week of September 14, calling lawmakers back to Washington to address the crisis. She proposed an early vote on a bill to roll back the changes introduced by DeJoy, which Democrats have described as "a grave threat to the integrity of the election." Pelosi said that "Lives, livelihoods and the life of our American democracy are under threat from the president."


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bring the Senate back into session also, to consider ways to "undo the extensive damage Mr. DeJoy has done at the Postal Service," but there was no indication McConnell would do so. Some Republican senators have also called for reversing the changes, pointing out the importance of the Postal Service to rural residents; they include both senators from Montana and Senator Susan Collins of Maine.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
On August 17, 2020, DeJoy agreed to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on August 24, and the next day he agreed to testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on August 21. USPS Board of Governors chairman Mike Duncan also agreed to testify at the House hearing.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
Despite DeJoy's announcement that he would be suspending the operational changes until after the election, Pelosi stated that she did not trust DeJoy, and called the suspension "a necessary but insufficient step in ending the president’s election sabotage campaign."


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
On August 21, 2020, DeJoy testified before the U.S. Senate that he votes by mail. He committed to senators at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that voters should be "extremely highly confident" that even mail-in ballots sent close to Election Day would be delivered on time, and promised that the USPS would respect its "sacred duty" to deliver election mail in the fall of 2020.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
Senator Jacky Rosen asked DeJoy to provide the sources of data collected, data analyses, and considerations of consequences—specifically on veterans dependent on the mail for their prescriptions—that DeJoy had undertaken before implementing the removal of mail sorting machines, "reduction, elimination of overtime and late trips". He said he was unable to do so.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
On August 22, 2020, the House passed a bill approving $25 billion in emergency funding for the USPS that would reverse DeJoy's changes and ban mail delays before the election. The vote was 257-150 as Democrats approved it unanimously and 26 Republicans joined them. The White House threatened a veto.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Congressional response
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, was denied access to two post offices in Florida when she tried to conduct an inspection on September 3.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Holiday shipping delays
In December 2020, a combination of the cost-cutting measures instituted by Postmaster General Louis Dejoy and increased holiday season shipping volume resulted in widespread package shipping delays and "buckling" of the Postal system.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Holiday shipping delays
USPS facilities became overwhelmed with packages: A supervisor at an Indianapolis distribution center reported that for the sake of expediency, workers were "just throwing [packages] in the trucks without scanning them" into the system; in Allentown, Pennsylvania, mail pieces sat in the parking lot because there was no room to unload them, and a clerk in Philadelphia told the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Don’t be using the post office right now, because we can’t deliver the mail".


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Holiday shipping delays
In an interview with the Baltimore Sun, a postal clerk in Linthicum, Maryland, summed up the situation as a “logistical nightmare," and added that USPS should have known based on the events of the preceding year there would be a holiday shipping crisis, but despite this failed to warn customers.


2020 United States Postal Service crisis, Holiday shipping delays
A postal worker who anonymously spoke to the Washington Post summed it up, "“As bad as you think it is, it’s worse.”  Late in December, USPS acknowledged the delays on its website citing COVID-19 issues and a labor shortage and encouraging early mailing of packages, but for many with packages already trapped at distribution centers across the country it was expected to be too late to make a difference.


2020 United States Senate election in Alabama
The 2020 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Alabama, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Alabama
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Doug Jones, first elected in a 2017 special election, ran for a full term, facing Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville in the general election. Jones was one of two Democratic U.S. Senators running for re-election in 2020 in a state President Donald Trump carried in 2016, the other being Gary Peters in Michigan. Jones was widely considered the most vulnerable senator among those seeking re-election in 2020, due to the heavy Republican partisan balance in the state, with analysts predicting a Republican pickup; Jones's 2017 win was in part due to sexual assault allegations against Republican nominee Roy Moore during the special election.


2020 United States Senate election in Alabama
As was predicted, Tuberville easily defeated Jones to flip the seat back to the GOP. Jones also suffered the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent U.S. Senator since Arkansas' Blanche Lincoln in 2010. Jones became the first Democratic senator to lose reelection in Alabama. Jones outperformed Biden in the state by about 5 points.


2020 United States Senate election in Alabama, Democratic primary
The candidate filing deadline was November 8, 2019. Jones ran unopposed.


2020 United States Senate election in Alabama, Republican primary, Runoff
The runoff for the Republican Senate nomination was planned for March 31, 2020, but it was delayed until July 14 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 United States Senate election in Alabama, General election, Results, By county
The following counties voted for Doug Jones over Republican Roy Moore in the 2017 special election, but flipped to supporting Republican Tommy Tuberville in the 2020 election. In the 2017 election, Jones won several traditionally Republican counties while also driving up margins and turnout in traditionally Democratic counties: he added onto massive margins in Birmingham and Montgomery with narrow wins in the state's other, previously more conservative metropolitan areas, such as Huntsville, Mobile, and Tuscaloosa, alongside several other small counties encircling the Black Belt.


2020 United States Senate election in Alabama, General election, Results, By county
Jones' win, though attributable to a spike in Democratic turnout and a decline in Republican turnout, was primarily reliant on allegations of child sexual abuse and pedophilia against Moore, resulting in several prominent Republicans rescinding their endorsements. With Tuberville lacking such controversies, the state swung hard into the Republican column in 2020, and he flipped 12 counties Jones won in 2017, listed below. Jones only won the 13 counties won by Joe Biden in the concurrent 2020 presidential election, and his victories in Jefferson County (Birmingham) and Montgomery County (Montgomery) were insufficient to overcome Tuberville's performance in the rest of the state.


2020 United States Senate election in Alaska
The 2020 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Alaska, concurrently with the nationwide presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan won re-election to a second term in office, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gross, the son of Avrum Gross, who ran as an independent candidate. John Wayne Howe, the nominee of the Alaskan Independence Party, was also on the ballot and finished a distant third.


2020 United States Senate election in Alaska
Both primaries took place on August 18, 2020. Some pundits considered this to be a potential "dark horse" flip for the Democrats, as Gross did unexpectedly well in polling despite Alaska usually being considered a Republican stronghold, even leading in some polls. In the end though, such predictions didn't materialize. Sullivan won re-election by a margin of 12.7% and triple his average lead in the pre-election polling. Sullivan also became the first candidate since 2002 to win a Senate election in Alaska with more than 50% of the vote.


2020 United States Senate election in Alaska, Libertarian–Democratic–Independence primary
Candidates from the Alaska Democratic Party, the Alaska Libertarian Party, and the Alaskan Independence Party appear on the same ballot, with the highest-placed candidate from each party receiving that party's nomination. In October 2017, the Alaska Democratic Party sued for the right to allow non-Democrats to compete for and win the Democratic nomination, which was ultimately decided in their favor in April 2018.


2020 United States Senate election in Arkansas
The 2020 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Arkansas, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Arkansas
Incumbent Republican senator Tom Cotton won reelection to a second term, defeating Libertarian challenger Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. Though Cotton outperformed President Donald Trump in the concurrent presidential election by 4.1%, the election saw an undervote of 26,000 compared to the presidential election. Harrington's 33.5% finish is the best ever for a Libertarian candidate in a U.S. Senate election by vote percentage, surpassing the previous record set four years prior in Alaska, and also by total number of votes (399,390, surpassing the previous record of 369,807 set by Michael Cloud in Massachusetts in 2002). Per exit polls, this largely appears to be due to many Democrats deciding to pick Harrington as there was no Democratic candidate on the ballot (82% of Democratic voters backed Harrington). Harrington won three counties, all of which were also won by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.


2020 United States Senate election in Arkansas, Withdrawn candidates, Democratic Party
Josh Mahony was the only candidate to file for the Democratic primary; however, he withdrew his candidacy on November 12, 2019. Because Mahony dropped out after the filing deadline, the Democratic Party of Arkansas could only nominate a replacement if the candidate died, became seriously ill, left the state, or filed for another office. As a result, the Democratic Party of Arkansas was not able to fill the vacancy. A memo from the Cotton campaign to supporters detailed a strategy of sitting on opposition research regarding Mahony's employment history until after the filing deadline had passed.


2020 United States Senate election in Arkansas, General election
In public comments, Harrington spoke about excessive partisanship in the election process itself and in Senate operations, such as the contentious nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Cotton declined to attend a debate hosted by Arkansas PBS, leaving Harrington as the sole participant. Harrington spent the debate responding to questions put to him by a panel of journalists.


2020 United States Senate election in Arkansas, General election, Results, By county
Harrington won three counties, becoming the first ever Libertarian senate candidate to win a county.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado
The 2020 United States Senate election in Colorado was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Colorado, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado
Under Colorado law, the filing deadline for U.S. Senate candidates was March 17, 2020, the third Tuesday in March of the election year; the primary election occurred on June 30. Incumbent Republican Senator Cory Gardner ran for reelection to a second term but was defeated by former Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper in the general election. Gardner was unopposed in the Republican primary, and Hickenlooper defeated former State House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in the Democratic primary.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado
Gardner was one of two Republican U.S. Senators facing reelection in 2020 in a state President Donald Trump lost in 2016, the other being Susan Collins of Maine. Experts believed this to be one of the most likely, if not the most likely, seats to flip to the Democrats, and they were proven to be correct, as Hickenlooper defeated Gardner by a 9.3-point margin. However, Hickenlooper underperformed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the concurrent presidential election by roughly four points. This became the first election Gardner had lost in his political career.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, Background
Gardner was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014, narrowly defeating incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Udall in a very successful election year for Republicans. Gardner was widely considered vulnerable in 2020 due to Colorado's recent Democratic trend and his support for Trump. The seat was expected to be highly competitive and the most likely Republican-held seat to flip Democratic. The Democratic nominee, former governor John Hickenlooper, had a double-digit lead over Gardner in the polls.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, Background
Various minor scandals in the days leading up to the June 30 Democratic primary sparked speculation that Romanoff might win, but Hickenlooper had an advantage in name recognition, and harsh negative attacks by Romanoff reportedly led many state Democrats and voters to sour on him.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, Democratic primary, Caucus
On March 7, 2020, the Colorado Democratic Party held a non-binding Senate primary preference poll at its caucus sites. Attendees could choose delegates to county and then state conventions. If a candidate received at least 30% of the delegates at the state convention they would be placed on the ballot. Some candidates were not listed because they instead chose to attempt to collect signatures to reach the ballot. Candidates needed 1,500 signatures from each congressional district. Hickenlooper and Underwood chose to do both. Romanoff collected the needed signatures as of March 8, 2020.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, Democratic primary, Caucus, Caucus results
Romanoff was the only candidate to get more than 30% in the initial precinct caucuses. Hickenlooper withdrew from the assembly process soon afterward, choosing to qualify for the ballot exclusively by petition. Ballot access for assembly candidates will be decided at the state assembly. Caucus winners do not always receive the party's nomination; Romanoff won them in the 2010 Democratic primary for Colorado's Senate race, but Michael Bennet won the party's nomination that year.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, Democratic primary, Caucus, Caucus results
The aggregate results of the various precinct caucuses on March 7, 2020, were:


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, General election, Results
The election was not particularly close, with Hickenlooper winning by 9.32%. Hickenlooper's win was expected, as Colorado has moved more toward being a blue state. Key to Hickenlooper's victory was Denver County and its surrounding suburban counties, Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, and Jefferson, the latter of which had been pivotal to Gardner's victory in 2014. Gardner did well in the typically red El Paso County, home of Colorado Springs. Gardner also did well in many rural areas of the state. However, Hickenlooper's strong performance in heavily populated counties proved too much for Gardner to overcome. Hickenlooper was also likely helped by Joe Biden, who won the state by 13.5%.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, General election, Results
Gardner won two counties that he had not won in 2014, flipping the counties of Alamosa and Huerfano. Hickenlooper flipped three counties that Gardner had won in 2014, in Chaffee, Larimer and Jefferson counties.


2020 United States Senate election in Colorado, General election, Results
Hickenlooper is the first senator from Colorado who was also the Governor of Colorado since Senator Edwin Johnson was elected in 1936. Hickenlooper was sworn in as Senator on January 3, 2021, for a six-year term that expires on January 3, 2027.


2020 United States Senate election in Delaware
The 2020 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Delaware, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Delaware
Incumbent Democratic Senator Chris Coons ran for reelection to a second full term and won against Republican challenger Lauren Witzke with 59.4% of the vote. He outperformed Democratic presidential nominee and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden (whose seat Coons was elected to in a 2010 special election) by 0.7 percentage points, compared to the concurrent presidential election.


2020 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Results, By county
Having only won one of Delaware's three counties in 2014, Coons successfully flipped Kent County in this election.


2020 United States Senate election in Idaho
The 2020 United States Senate election in Idaho was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Idaho, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Idaho
Incumbent Republican Senator Jim Risch won reelection to a third term in office, defeating Democratic nominee Paulette Jordan, who, percentage wise, had the worst performance of a Democratic senatorial candidate for this seat since 2002. However, Risch also performed nearly three points worse than he did when he was reelected in 2014, and additionally, he slightly underperformed incumbent President Donald Trump's performance in the concurrent presidential election.


2020 United States Senate election in Idaho, General election, Results
In spite of a landslide loss and the weakest performance by a Democrat for this seat since 2002, Jordan won two counties that had voted for Risch in 2014, flipping Latah and Teton counties.


2020 United States Senate election in Illinois
The 2020 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Illinois, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections and the Illinois Fair Tax. Incumbent Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who had been Senate Minority Whip since 2015, won reelection to a fifth term in office, defeating Republican nominee Mark Curran.


2020 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information
The primaries and general elections coincide with those for federal (president and House) and those for state offices.


2020 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout
For the primaries, turnout was 28.36% with 2,279,439 votes cast.


2020 United States Senate election in Illinois, Other candidates
A legal ruling, taking note of the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois, allowed the Libertarian and Green Parties to have their selected candidate on the ballot without the normal signature requirements, as they each ran a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016.


2020 United States Senate election in Illinois, General election, Results
Durbin decisively won re-election with 54.9% of the vote. Key to Durbin's landslide victory was heavily populated and very Democratic Cook County home of Chicago, which he won by around 560,000 votes. Durbin also did well in the suburban, often called collar counties of Chicago, winning all of them except McHenry County. Durbin did well in Champaign County, home of the University of Illinois, and St. Clair County, where his birth home of East St. Louis is located. Nevertheless, this was Durbin's first election in which he failed to win the formerly Democratic-leaning rural Alexander County. Curran did well in most rural areas of the state, including winning rural Alexander County where a Republican hasn't won since 1972.


2020 United States Senate election in Illinois, General election, Results
Durbin flipped eight counties that he had not won in 2014, in DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, McLean, Peoria, Will and Winnebago counties, but lost the counties of Alexander, Calhoun, Gallatin, Pulaski and Whiteside.


2020 United States Senate election in Illinois, General election, Results
Durbin became the first senator from Illinois to be elected five consecutive times since senators began being elected by popular vote in 1913. Durbin also kept his landslide winning streak by winning with at least a ten-point margin. Durbin was sworn in on January 3, 2021 for his fifth term, which expires on January 3, 2027.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa
The 2020 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Iowa, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Primaries were held on June 2.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa
Most experts and pollsters considered this race and the concurrent presidential race as a tossup due to incumbent President Donald Trump's low approval ratings and Ernst's own popularity dropping in polls. Despite this, Ernst was reelected by a larger-than-expected 6.6 points, while Trump simultaneously won the state with a similarly unexpected margin of victory. Ernst carried most of the state, while Greenfield carried only 8 counties: Polk, Linn, Scott, Johnson, Black Hawk, Story, Cerro Gordo, and Jefferson.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa, Democratic primary
On June 2, 2020, Theresa Greenfield won the Democratic primary with 47.71% of the vote, defeating three other major candidates, including Michael T. Franken, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former aide to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa, Democratic primary
Greenfield grew up on a small farm where her family raised crops and hogs. She took courses at Iowa Lakes Community College and Iowa State University before graduating from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in design and human environment. At 24 years old, Greenfield's husband, an electrician, was killed in a work accident. She has credited Social Security, workers' compensation, and family support with helping her through that period, during which she was caring for a one-year-old son and pregnant with a child born five months later.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa, Democratic primary
In 2005, Greenfield took a position at the homebuilding company Rottlund Homes, where she was named president of the Iowa division in 2007. In 2012, Greenfield became president of the Des Moines commercial real estate firm Colby Interests, based in Windsor Heights, Iowa.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa, General election
Major media described the campaign as one of the most likely to decide control of the Senate after the 2020 election. Polls conducted after the primary showed a close contest between Greenfield and Ernst, with neither candidate leading by more than 4 points.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa, General election
Through June 2020, Greenfield had raised $11.5 million, compared to $14.6 million for Ernst but by September, Greenfield had pulled ahead, raising $40.0 million compared to $21.6 million for Ernst. The race was expected to be the most expensive in the state's history, and the second most expensive Senate race in the United States, after the 2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina, where Cal Cunningham challenged Thom Tillis.


2020 United States Senate election in Iowa, General election, Results
While Greenfield flipped one county that Ernst had won in 2014, carrying Scott County, Ernst flipped seven counties, winning Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Floyd, Howard, Lee and Worth counties.


2020 United States Senate election in Kansas
The 2020 United States Senate election in Kansas was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Kansas, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Kansas
On January 4, 2019, incumbent Republican Senator Pat Roberts announced he would not run for a fifth term. Candidates had until June 1, 2020 to file to run for the open seat or to drop out if they already filed. The U.S. Senate primaries were held on August 4, 2020. Republican U.S. Representative Roger Marshall was considered a narrow favorite based on polling, but he won by around 11 points, a larger margin than most experts predicted. However, this was the first senate election since 1978 that a Democrat won Shawnee County and the first senate election since 1974 that a Democrat won Riley County, both counties that Biden flipped in the concurrent presidential election.


2020 United States Senate election in Kansas, Republican primary, Candidates, Primary debate
In a live-streamed debate on May 22, 2020, in a ballroom devoid of spectators due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all five major candidates praised president Donald Trump. Kobach took on his opponents who all agreed that he could not win the general election against presumptive Democratic nominee, Bollier. Marshall said, "We cannot afford to send a failed candidate back this fall who will lose to Barbara Bollier and hand the Senate majority over to Chuck Schumer." "Instead, we need to send a tried and trusted friend of President Trump."


2020 United States Senate election in Kansas, Republican primary, Candidates, Primary debate
Referring to Marshall, Kobach replied, "Do you want a go-along-to-get-along kind of senator, a gutless wonder who never takes a stand, or, do you want someone who poses a threat?" Hamilton said voters didn't have to choose between Kobach, who couldn't win, and a moderate Marshall, in whose behest the state party leaders had urged Senator Wagle and Lindstrom, to drop out of the race. Objecting to the party pressure, Lindstrom characterized his opponents as "shortsighted, self-serving...career politicians who are divisive, controversial," and, "have a record of losing elections."


2020 United States Senate election in Kansas, Republican primary, Candidates, Primary debate
Wagle touted her own candidacy, saying, "It’s very, very important that we send a leader to the U.S. Senate who is articulate, who is persuasive, who other people respect." "I'm the one who's already debated Barbara Bollier." "I win on the Senate floor. I've beat (sic) her numerous times," "...the conservative voice that can beat that liberal voice in the U.S. Senate," she said. In response to a claim that he would not prioritize the issue of agriculture, Marshall said, "Fake news and another lie by Kris Kobach."


2020 United States Senate election in Kansas, General election, Results
On the night of the election, Roger Marshall was announced as the winner of the Senate race.


2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky
The 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who had been Senate Majority Leader since 2015 and senator from Kentucky since 1985, won reelection to a seventh term in office. He faced off against former U.S. Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath and Libertarian Brad Barron.


2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky
The Democratic and Republican primaries took place on June 23, 2020. As the primaries neared, the president of the National Bar Association accused officials of carrying out voter suppression. Compared to typical numbers of 3,700, the number of polling stations was reduced to 200 with only one in Louisville. Because a large number of voters voted by mail, absentee ballots were not counted until June 30. In the primary, over 937,000 people requested absentee ballots or voted early, a far greater number than usual.


2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky
Despite much speculation about this race being potentially competitive and large amounts of money being poured in to try and defeat McConnell, he wound up winning a seventh term with his largest margin of victory since 2002, defeating McGrath by nearly 20 percentage points. He also won Elliott and Wolfe Counties for the very first time, solidifying rural Kentucky's hard swing towards the GOP. Despite this, McGrath outperformed Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the concurrent presidential election; he lost to President Donald Trump by nearly 26%. This was the first election in which McConnell attained more than 1 million votes.


2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky, Democratic primary, Campaign
There were debates on March 5, 2020 and June 1, 2020.


2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky, Other candidates, Libertarian primary
The Libertarian Party of Kentucky did not qualify to nominate through the taxpayer-funded primary and held its own privately operated primary on March 8, 2020. Anyone registered Libertarian in the state of Kentucky as of January 1, 2020, could participate. All candidates of the Libertarian Party of Kentucky must defeat None Of The Above (NOTA) to obtain the nomination.


2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky, General election, Results
McConnell was announced as the winner on November 3. When pressed for a potential recount of the election amid legal disputes regarding the general, McConnell dismissed the idea since,—"at the risk of bragging, it wasn't very close."


2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky, General election, Results
McConnell flipped seven of the ten counties that he had not won in 2014, with Bath, Elliott, Marion, Menifee, Nicholas, Rowan and Wolfe counties all flipping.


2020 United States Senate election in Louisiana
The 2020 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Louisiana, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. A blanket primary was held on November 3, 2020; if no candidate had won a majority of the vote in the blanket primary, then a runoff election would have been held on December 5.


2020 United States Senate election in Louisiana, Candidates, Democratic Party
Though there are multiple Democratic candidates, the one with the most institutional support is Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, who has the endorsements of the Louisiana Democratic Party and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine
The 2020 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Maine, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. This was Maine's first election for its Class 2 seat to use its ranked choice voting system.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine
Republican Senator Susan Collins was challenged by Democratic nominee Sara Gideon, the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, as well as independent candidates Lisa Savage and Max Linn. Collins was considered one of the most vulnerable Republican senators due to her decreased polling numbers and perceived harm to her reputation but was reelected by an unexpectedly large 8.6% margin, with 51% of the vote to Gideon's 42.4%. Despite this, her 51% share of the vote was her worst performance since her first election in 1996 and was a 17-point drop from 2014.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine
Maine was the only state to elect a senator of a different party than the winner of its presidential contest in the November 3 election, with Collins outperforming President Donald Trump, who lost the state to Democratic nominee Joe Biden by 9.1%. Gideon underperformed Biden by 10.6%, the second-worst underperformance by a Democratic Senate candidate in the country. Examples of this discrepancy include Wells, a coastal town in the state's liberal southwest corner, where Biden won by 14% and Collins by 6%.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine
During his presidency, Collins's stance on Trump waffled, as he did not share her moderate politics but had a strong base in Maine's sprawling, rural 2nd congressional district. Collins voted against the Affordable Care Act repeal, but for the GOP's 2017 tax bill and to acquit Trump in his first impeachment. She voted to confirm Trump's nominees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, but against the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett just days before the 2020 election, citing disagreement with process.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
Republican Senator Susan Collins, widely considered the most liberal Republican U.S. senator, ran for a fifth term. Collins has won each election to this seat by a greater victory margin than the one before it. Observers did not anticipate this election to continue that trend.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
Collins was criticized for her decision to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court despite his anti-abortion stances (Collins describes herself as pro-choice) and allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse against him, though she gave a highly publicized speech on the Senate floor explaining her reasoning. She also faced criticism for her stance on the impeachment of President Donald Trump.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
Collins voted in favor of allowing witness testimony in the Senate trial, and was the first Republican to do so, and she voted to acquit Trump on both charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. She said she voted to acquit because "impeachment of a president should be reserved for conduct that poses such a serious threat to our governmental institutions as to warrant the extreme step of immediate removal from office."


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
She initially claimed that Trump "learned a pretty big lesson" from the impeachment, but later said that she thought he had not learned from it after all. She has also been criticized for running for third, fourth, and fifth Senate terms despite vowing to serve no more than two terms during her 1996 campaign, though she has explained this as a product of having learned the value of seniority in the Senate. The emphasis on seniority became a key theme of her campaign. Collins's campaign emphasized her efficiency as a legislator, her efforts to pass the Paycheck Protection Program and other aid for small businesses, and her growing seniority and influence in the Senate, in particular her potential chairwomanship of the Appropriations Committee.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
The Democratic nominee, Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Sara Gideon, supports criminal justice reforms, expansion of the Affordable Care Act, rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, and imposing universal background checks on gun sales to combat gun violence. In 2019, Gideon faced an election ethics complaint for accepting reimbursements for her political donations from her own PAC. Gideon apologized for the violation, reimbursed the federal government a total of $3,250, and closed the PAC.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
Gideon was also criticized for keeping the Maine House of Representatives adjourned for most of the year (neighboring New Hampshire had reconvened its sizably larger legislature by late spring) and for allegedly turning a blind eye to a legislative colleague accused of molesting underage girls until she was forced to acknowledge the scandal.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
Lisa Savage, a longtime antiwar activist and schoolteacher from Solon, initially sought the Maine Green Independent Party nomination, but in late February, she announced her intention to instead qualify for the ballot as an independent due to Maine's restrictive ballot access measures. In April, Savage turned in more than 5,500 signatures to the Secretary of State's office and thus qualified for the general election ballot.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
Max Linn, a financial planner and conservative activist from Bar Harbor, is a Trump supporter and former candidate of the Republican and Reform parties. In July 2020, he qualified for the ballot as an independent. Former Republican State Senator Mary Small challenged the signatures on his petition, but the Secretary of State found that he had enough and he was placed on the ballot. Later that month, he announced his intention to drop out of the race to support Collins. But days later, he decided not to drop out unless Collins agreed to a list of policies, which she did not.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Background
Party primaries were initially scheduled to take place on June 9, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the state, Governor Janet Mills rescheduled them for July 14. Mills's executive order also expanded voters' ability to request absentee ballots, which may now be done up to and on election day. The primaries were conducted with ranked choice voting. Parties qualified to participate in the 2020 primary election were the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the Maine Green Independent Party.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Democratic primary
On April 20, 2019, attorney and activist Bre Kidman became the first person to announce their candidacy for the Democratic nomination, making them the first ever U.S. Senate candidate who identifies as non-binary. On June 13, 2019, former Maine gubernatorial candidate Betsy Sweet declared her candidacy. Eleven days later, Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon announced her candidacy, receiving widespread media coverage. A number of other candidates announced their candidacies, including General Jon Treacy and former Google executive and political aide Ross LaJeunesse, who would have been the first openly gay man elected to the Senate. LaJeunesse and Treacy withdrew, with LaJeunesse endorsing Gideon. Two debates were held with all three candidates, while one hosted by WCSH was attended only by Sweet and Kidman.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Other candidates, Green Independent Party
Two candidates declared their intentions to run for the Maine Green Independent Party's nomination, but one withdrew and the other left the party to become an independent. Lisa Savage left the party because of Maine's ballot access requirements; Savage needed 2,000 registered party members to sign a nomination petition to appear on the ballot as the Green Party candidate but could only gather them from January 1 until the March 15 deadline. The Green Party had roughly 41,000 members statewide, which was significantly fewer than the Democratic and Republican parties but nonetheless required the same number of signatures.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Other candidates, Green Independent Party
No alternative party candidate for statewide office had been able to meet this requirement since Pat LaMarche did so in 2006 for Governor. Instead, Savage sought to appear as an independent candidate, which required 4,000 signatures, but they may be from any registered voter, not just party members and they could have been gathered until the June deadline.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, Other candidates, Independents
Eight Independents declared their candidacy for Senate in 2020, including one affiliated with the Libertarian Party of Maine, which lost ballot access after the 2018 elections. Two qualified for positions on the November ballot.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, General election, Debates
The four candidates participated in two in-person debates on September 11 and September 29, both held without an audience. Collins at one point proposed holding 16 debates, one for every county in Maine, but such a schedule was not agreed upon.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, General election, Results
Like many Republican Senate candidates in 2020, Collins did much better on Election Day than pre-election polls predicted; nearly all of them predicted her defeat. Collins defeated Gideon in the general election with 51.0% of the first-place votes, precluding additional rounds of tabulation. Gideon conceded to Collins on November 4.


2020 United States Senate election in Maine, General election, Results, By county
Gideon flipped two counties that had voted for Collins in 2014: Cumberland County (Maine's largest county) and Knox County.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
The 2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. On September 1, incumbent Senator Ed Markey defeated U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III in a competitive primary for the Democratic nomination and Kevin O'Connor defeated Shiva Ayyadurai for the Republican nomination. Markey went on to win the general election with 66.2% of the vote, and was thus re-elected to a second full term in a landslide.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary
The state primary election took place on September 1, 2020. Incumbent Senator Ed Markey was challenged by U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy III. Kennedy and Markey have similar political positions, though Markey is considered more liberal on the DW-Nominate scale. An elected senator had not been defeated in a primary since Richard Lugar in 2012, and an elected Democrat had not been defeated since Joe Lieberman in 2006.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary
In August of 2019, it was reported that Kennedy was considering a primary challenge to Markey. He announced that he would be launching a campaign on September 18. According to Vox, one of the main reasons for Kennedy's decision to challenge Markey rather than waiting for a senate seat to open up was that Markey was perceived to be an easier opponent than the raft of candidates that would run without an incumbent. Polling of the potential matchup showed Markey trailing Kennedy by 14 points, leading to speculation that he would retire rather than face a humiliating primary defeat, but he resolved to run for re-election.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary
Support from within the Democratic Party was divided. Markey received support from the DSCC, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, and DSCC chair Catherine Cortez Masto. He was also endorsed by key figures in the party's progressive wing, such as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, fellow Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and the youth-led Sunrise Movement.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary
Kennedy received various endorsements from the House leadership, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (which was noteworthy because speakers rarely endorse candidates in competitive primaries, especially challengers to incumbents), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Democratic Caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries, House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff, and House Democratic Senior Chief Deputy Whip John Lewis.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary
As the campaign progressed, Markey began to explicitly criticise the Kennedy family, deeming them as emblematic of privilege, and frequently contrasting the Kennedy Compound with his own upbringing in Malden. Kennedy attacked Markey for these actions, accusing him of "weaponizing" the history of the Kennedy family.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary
Markey's margin of victory of 10.8% was attributed to his unexpected strength among progressives and younger voters. Kennedy's loss marked the first time a member of the Kennedy family had lost an election in Massachusetts.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Democratic primary, Results
Markey defeated his challenger, Joe Kennedy III. Markey won by running up big margins in Boston and its suburbs, and did well in Western  Massachusetts, especially in college towns. Kennedy did well in the Cape Cod region and won many Southern municipalities, especially his native 4th district. Kennedy is the first member of the Kennedy family to lose an election in Massachusetts.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, Republican primary
The state primary election took place on September 1, 2020.


2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, General election, Results, By county
Markey won all fourteen of Massachusetts' counties for the second election in a row.


2020 United States Senate election in Michigan
The 2020 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent Michigan. It was held concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Michigan
Incumbent Gary Peters was one of two Democratic U.S. Senators up for re-election in 2020 in a state President Donald Trump carried in 2016; the other was Doug Jones from Alabama. The primary was held on August 4. The filing deadline for candidates to run in the primary was April 21 but was extended to May 8 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 United States Senate election in Michigan
The election was considered a potential upset pickup by the Republicans due to the state's demographic trends, incumbent Trump's upset win in 2016, and Republican candidate John James's outperformance of polling expectations despite losing the state's Senate election in 2018. However, most experts still believed Peters to be the more likely winner.


2020 United States Senate election in Michigan
Peters won re-election to a second term, though by a closer margin than expected. James, who outperformed Trump on the same ballot, initially refused to concede, baselessly claiming in a statement published to his campaign website two days after the election that he had been "cheated" out of winning the election. The statement alleged, without evidence, that there were "deep concerns that millions of Michiganders may have been disenfranchised by a dishonest few who cheat[s]"." On November 24, James conceded the race exactly three weeks after election day. With a margin of 1.68%, this election was the second-closest race of the 2020 Senate election cycle, behind only the regularly-scheduled election in Georgia.


2020 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, General results
Polls indicated that the race would be close with Peters leading in most polls. In 2018, Michigan voters approved 'no reason required' absentee balloting. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a record number of absentee voters. Michigan law does not allow for early tabulating of absentee ballots, so the absentee ballots were tabulated after completing the tabulating of ballots from polling places. This created a 'mirage' effect because more Republicans voted on Election Day and more Democrats voted by absentee ballot. James was ahead when the counting of Election Day ballots was completed. When the absentee ballots were tabulated and with 98% of the votes counted, Peters was declared the winner by a tight margin of one percentage point after a day of waiting. When the results were certified on November 23, Peters' margin of victory was 1.68%.


2020 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, General results
African-Americans in Detroit were a major demographic contributing to Gary Peters winning the election.


2020 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Litigation
After Peters took the lead in the election on the 4th, James refused to concede the race. The following day, James claimed that he had been cheated out of winning the election in a statement published to his campaign website. The statement said that there were "[...] deep concerns that millions of Michiganders may have been disenfranchised by a dishonest few who cheat" and that "[...] there is enough credible evidence to warrant an investigation to ensure that elections were conducted in a transparent, legal and fair manner." A lawyer for James' campaign alleged that fraud was committed at the TCF Center, which the Trump campaign had also attempted to claim in a dismissed lawsuit. James conceded the election to Peters on November 24.


2020 United States Senate election in Minnesota
The 2020 United States Senate election in Minnesota was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Minnesota, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and other state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Minnesota
Some Republican pundits and strategists believed Minnesota to be a potential pickup opportunity due to its increasingly favorable demographics and unexpectedly close result in the 2016 presidential election, along with potential backlash from the 2020 George Floyd protests, originating after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. However, every poll taken showed incumbent Democratic Senator Tina Smith in the lead by varying degrees.


2020 United States Senate election in Minnesota
Smith ended up winning re-election to a full term in office by a margin of 5.2 points, making this the closest Senate election in Minnesota since 2008. Some have attributed this to two pro-marijuana legalization parties (Legal Marijuana Now Party and Grassroots Party) taking a combined 7.69% of the vote. The filing deadline for all candidates was June 2, 2020. The primary took place on August 11.


2020 United States Senate election in Minnesota, General election, Debate
Two General Election debates were held. The first on October 2, 2020, was hosted by Minnesota Public Radio and was attended by Smith and Lewis. The Second debate was hosted by Twin Cities PBS on October 23, 2020, and was attended only by Lewis.


2020 United States Senate election in Mississippi
The 2020 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Mississippi, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Mississippi
Incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith won reelection to a full term against Democratic nominee Mike Espy, in a rematch of the 2018 special election. Despite being outspent nearly four to one, Hyde-Smith won by a ten point margin.


2020 United States Senate election in Mississippi
Hyde-Smith underperformed Trump in the concurrent presidential election by around 6 points.


2020 United States Senate election in Montana
The 2020 United States Senate election in Montana was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Montana, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. The primaries for both the Democratic and Republican nominations took place on June 2, 2020.


2020 United States Senate election in Montana
Originally this seat was projected to be a safe Republican hold. However, Steve Bullock, Montana's popular Democratic governor, entered the race on the last day to file, which shifted the dynamics of the contest dramatically, and many political pundits then considered it a competitive race and potential pickup for Democrats, and polling reflected that at a point too, with one poll even showing Bullock leading by 7 points. These predictions ultimately did not come to fruition however, as Daines would wind up winning a second term by a comfortable 10-point margin. This election would ultimately mark the first time since 2000 where Montana voted for a Republican governor, president, and senator all on the same ballot.


2020 United States Senate election in Montana
As the Green Party was removed from the ballot and both Libertarian nominees withdrew, this was the first time since 1988 that there were no third-party candidates running for either United States House of Representatives or United States Senate in Montana.


2020 United States Senate election in Montana, Democratic primary
Following Steve Bullock's entry shortly before the March 9 filing deadline, several Democrats dropped from the race.


2020 United States Senate election in Montana, Other candidates, Libertarian Party
After Susan Geise officially withdrew, the Montana Libertarian Party could name a replacement candidate for the general election. However, during a meeting to select a replacement candidate, a majority of party officials selected not to have a replacement candidate, with "none of the above" winning the most votes.


2020 United States Senate election in Nebraska
The 2020 United States Senate election in Nebraska was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nebraska, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.


2020 United States Senate election in Nebraska
Incumbent Republican Senator Ben Sasse was challenged by Democratic nominee Chris Janicek, who was disavowed by his party after numerous scandals; by write-in candidate Preston Love Jr., who received the support of the state Democratic Party; and by Libertarian nominee Gene Siadek.


2020 United States Senate election in Nebraska
Sasse was reelected to a second term in office with 62.7% of the vote and a 38.3% margin. He outperformed President Donald Trump by almost 27,000 votes, or 8.9%, compared to the concurrent presidential election, the largest overperformance by any Republican Senate candidate in the country that year. In contrast, Janicek was the worst performing Democratic Senate candidate in the country compared to Joe Biden, underperforming him by 13.1%. This was attributed to a sexual misconduct scandal affecting Janicek and split-ticket voting in Omaha suburbs.


2020 United States Senate election in Nebraska, Democratic primary, Candidates, Nominee
On June 16, 2020, Janicek lost the support of the Nebraska Democratic Party after allegations of sending sexually explicit text messages about a female campaign staff member and allegedly using racist slurs to insult a guest at a party 20 years ago surfaced. Nonetheless, Janicek refused to drop out of the race and his name remained on the ballot in the general election. In September the state Democratic party supported Preston Love Jr. via a write-in candidacy.