mr beat presents presidential
elections in american history
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the 59th presidential election in
american history took place on november
3rd
2020. then again by that day a record
number of americans had
already voted early either in person or
by
mail you see for most of the year the
world was in the middle of the
covet 19 pandemic the virus hit the
united states particularly hard
around 20 percent of all kobe 19 related
deaths
in the world happened in the united
states
despite the country making up just over
four percent of the world's population
by election day it had killed around 235
000 americans
and many blamed president donald trump
compared to other world leaders
trump was slow to respond to the
pandemic and originally
downplayed the severity of the virus not
only that
the economy was doing worse than it had
since the great depression
businesses closed and suffered due to
lockdowns after local politicians try to
slow the spread of the virus
unemployment got as high as almost 15
percent
despite wages slowly ticking up in the
previous three years
nearly half of all americans still lived
paycheck to paycheck
meaning when the economy crashed in 2020
they had no savings to get them by
trump also became just the third
president in american history to be
impeached for abuse of power and
obstruction of congress
after he allegedly tried to get
ukrainian officials to dig up
dirt on joe biden's son to hurt spiden's
election campaign
more on that in a bit well the senate
acquitted trump
with nearly every republican voting to
keep him in
office but it wasn't just the
impeachment throughout all the turmoil
of 2020 the republican party
consistently stood by president trump he
had a
loyal cult-like following as seen by his
many rallies with enthusiastic
supporters
however trump also had lots of enemies
throughout his presidency
the traditional news media attacked him
don't worry
he attacked them right back that's
enough that's another president
that says one of the other folks that's
enough pardon me ma'am
i'm mr president that's enough trump
lied more than most politicians
so much where it was kind of hard to
keep up with all the lies
and he nearly got the country into wars
just from seemingly impulsive tweets
but he also accomplished a lot for
conservatives at least attempting to
undo much of what barack obama
accomplished getting three supreme court
justice nominees appointed
as well as lots of federal judges
lowering taxes
reducing regulations and beefing up
military spending he even led some
bipartisan criminal justice reform
still all summer long saw a resurgence
of black lives matter protests as police
brutality continued to be a big issue
as seen by the horrifying murder of
george floyd
the democratic party um did not stand by
trump
throughout his presidency trump had been
one of the most unpopular presidents in
modern american history
and many democrats thought they could
easily take him
29 major candidates try to get their
party's presidential nomination
the most for any american political
party since 1972
and now i shall list all 29 of them
just kidding although i will mention a
lot of them because it was an
interesting
and diverse group first of all there was
tulsi gabbard a us representative from
hawaii
kamala harris a senator from california
yeah uh she dropped out of the race
before the primaries began
after gabbard made her look bad there
were two candidates who seemingly came
out of nowhere
andrew yang an entrepreneur from new
york and pete butterjudge
the mayor of south bend indiana buddha
judge or mayor pete
perhaps since many couldn't pronounce
his last name was the first
openly gay presidential candidate to win
a presidential primary or caucus there
were also
two billionaires who basically bought
their way into the presidential race
tom steyer a new york city hedge fund
manager
oh yeah we all love hedge fund managers
right and michael bloomberg
who after he made his billions was the
mayor of new york city
let's see who else oh amy klobuchar
a senator from minnesota elizabeth
warren
also a senator but from massachusetts oh
and
bernie sanders was back yep after
basically renewing a progressive
movement
within the democratic party when he ran
for president in 2016 the senator from
vermont was back with higher support
than ever
and finally there was joe biden the
former vice president who entered the
race
truly believing he was the only one who
could stop donald trump despite the fact
that he was now
77 years old that said this presidential
election
had a lot of older folks sanders was 78
so was bloomberg trump was 73 warren was
70. hey it's all good it was 2020.
people were living longer
wait what oh
oops yeah the life expectancy had been
going down since the last election well
long story short
at first it looked like biden wouldn't
get the nomination
and that bernie sanders was in fact the
front runner this freaked some people
out
mostly they got scared of what they
thought socialism was
and associated sanders with what they
thought socialism was
we are living in many ways in a
socialist society
right now problem is as dr martin luther
king reminded us
we have socialism for the very rich
rugged
individualism for the poor what a
wonderful country we have the best known
socialist in the country happens to be a
millionaire with three houses what i
miss here so
all of the candidates who talk trash
about quote socialism
united against sanders and threw their
support to biden who
after winning the south carolina primary
gained huge momentum
and won most delegates after that biden
became the oldest candidate
ever nominated by a major political
party and
it was his third time running he chose
kamala harris who actually had some
harsh words for him in a debate when she
was running against him for the
nomination
as his running mate i guess they made up
and stuff trump had
little opposition getting re-nominated
by the republicans
although folks like former u.s
representative joe walsh and former
massachusetts governor
bill weld ran against him you may
remember weld from the 2016 election
mike pence was again trump's running
mate after their strongest finish in a
presidential election yet
in 2016 the libertarian party felt
confident
as it nominated its first female
candidate
joe jorgensen a college professor and
activist from south carolina
with spike cohen an activist from
maryland
as her running mate both trump and biden
were supposed to debate
three times but one of them didn't
happen after trump
got covered and maybe almost died the
first time they debated that was a bit
of a
train wreck you were a senator and
you're the worst president
america has ever had you know it was
kind of like
two old men yelling at each other mostly
due to social media feeds and online
echo chambers
the country remained perhaps as divided
as it had been
since the civil war however throughout
his presidency trump's approval rating
never really got that high and even some
republicans like those who formed the
political action committee the lincoln
project
thought trump was recklessly leading the
country down a path
toward fascism however trump still had
tens of millions of loyal followers who
believed every word he said
and trusted him with their lives despite
the kova 19 pandemic lockdowns
trump held as many rallies as he could
and many of his supporters
showed up not wearing masks a sign that
many of them
still downplayed the severity of the
virus on the other side
biden didn't get out much to campaign
and when he did he had more low-key
kind of boring quote rallies in which
supporters
stayed in their cars and awkwardly
honked their horns at him since he
couldn't hear them clapping
and here are the results joe biden won
becoming the 46th president in american
history bayern received 306 electoral
votes and 51.3 percent of the popular
vote trump received 232 electoral votes
and 46.9
of the popular vote as divided as the
country was biden won the largest
percentage of the popular votes of
any challenger to an incumbent since the
election of 1932
joe jorgensen finished third with 1.2
percent of the popular vote kamala
harris became the 49th vice president in
american history
and the first female vice president in
american history
wonas trump was the first president
since george
h.w bush to not get re-elected biden
became the oldest president
in american history as soon as he was
sworn in yep
he was older than ronald reagan when
reagan
left the presidency probably at least
partially due to the expansion of
mail-in voting this election had the
highest
voter turnouts since the election of
1900
even though most americans weren't that
excited about biden
who seemed to be just a return to the
status quo that didn't matter
most of them seem to be voting out of
fear of
four more years of trump despite it not
being that close of an election
trump refused to say he lost claiming
there was widespread voter fraud
his diehard supporters of course also
absolutely refused to accept the results
believing there was widespread voting
fraud
however trump's own administration found
no evidence of widespread voting fraud
and after dozens of courts filled with
many trump appointees i should add
dismissed challenges to the election
many felt the last chance they had to
prevent biden from becoming president
was preventing congress from certifying
the electoral vote
count tragically on january 6 the day
congress was supposed to do that a mob
of hundreds of trump supporters
stormed the u.s capitol ultimately five
died including one police officer and
dozens were injured
the rioters occupied vandalized and
looted the capital for
hours before the national guard finally
came in to kick them out
and make arrests many criticized trump
for inciting the violence
and not doing enough to protect the
capital he even lost his social media
accounts
yep not only was his presidency over but
so was his ability to tweet
to his devoted followers oh and the
house of representatives
impeached him again this time for quote
incitement of insurrection making trump
the only american president to be
impeached
twice
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i'll see you for the next presidential
election buddy
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