The 2020 United States presidential election happened on November 3, 2020. Voters selected presidential electors who then voted on December 14, 2020 to either elect a new President and Vice President or re-elect the incumbents. On November 7, Joe Biden won the election and became the president-elect of the United States. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2021, at midday when he took the oath of office.