| Retrieved November 8, 2020 — via | Trump being diagnosed with COVID-19 was widely seen as having a negative effect on his campaign and shifted the attention of the public back onto COVID-19, an issue which is generally seen as a liability for Trump, due to his response to the COVID-19 pandemic suffering from low approval ratings |
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| The party's delegates then officially nominate a candidate to run on the party's behalf | Free and Equal Elections Foundation |
This split in popular opinion remained largely stable, with a January 10, 2021, poll commissioned by ABC News showing 68% of Americans believed Biden's win was legitimate and 32% did not.
25| In view of these legal defeats, Trump began to employ "a public pressure campaign on state and local Republican officials to manipulate the electoral system on his behalf" | On October 21, threatening emails were sent to Democrats in at least four states |
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| Nominations Main articles: and became the presumptive nominee of the Green Party on June 21, 2020, and was officially nominated by the party on July 11, 2020 | The election results in each state and the were certified by December 9 |
The crowd caused widespread damage to the Capitol and forced lawmakers to evacuate the chambers where debate was occurring.
16| Among the wealthier cohort, Trump significantly increased his support | In light of the attempts to contest the election results, an important question is how many votes would need to be changed to change the overall result |
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| Trump referred to Black Lives Matter protesters confronting diners in a restaurant as "thugs", and called the movement a "symbol of hate" | People over the age of 65 made up 23% of the citizen voting-age population in 2020, up from 21% in 2016 |
Welker's performance as moderator was praised, with her being regarded as having done a good job preventing the candidates from interrupting each other.
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