Us Presidential Election Vice President Candidates

Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote if no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote the winner is determined through.

Us presidential election vice president candidates. Presidential candidates vice presidential candidates parties ballot access presidential candidate joe biden donald trump jo jorgensen howie hawkins rocky de la fuente gloria la riva kanye west don blankenship brock pierce brian carroll. Former vice president joe biden the nominee for president of the united states announced that he had selected senator kamala harris of california as his running mate on august 11 2020. Democratic vice presidential nominee sen.

Jeremy spike cohen l entrepreneur and podcaster. This article is a list of united states presidential candidates the first u s. The united states has had a two party system for much of its history and the two major parties have nominated vice presidential candidates in most presidential elections.

Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Mike pence the republican nominee mike pence the republican nominee for vice president has spent 12 years in the united states house of representatives and four years as governor of indiana. In the 2016 presidential election the democratic republican libertarian and green presidential candidates had all chosen their running mates by august 1 2016.

Angela nicole walker g veteran and labor activist. Vice presidential candidate kamala harris. Us senator kamala harris has been nominated as democratic vice presidential candidate for us elections 2020 on wednesday at the democratic national convention held virtually due to the coronavirus.

Prior to the adoption of the constitutional amendment the office of vice president was awarded to the presidential candidate who won the second largest number of votes regardless of which. Presidential election was held in 1788 1789 followed by the second in 1792. Biden and harris were both formally nominated at the 2020 democratic national convention.

If no candidate receives the minimum 270 electoral votes needed to win the election a contingent election is held in which the house of representatives will select the president from the three candidates who received the most electoral votes and the senate will select the vice president from the candidates who received the two highest totals. Kamala harris d ca and husband douglas emhoff r and vice president mike pence and wife karen pence image. Mike pence r vice president of the united states and former governor.