Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald, via Associated Press. Many of the jobs didn’t come back. 2020 in politics: Arizona lives up to reputation as battleground state Skip to main content How these emotionally charged issues will end up affecting voter turnout is anyone’s guess. The Great Lakes State again is expected to be a key battleground this time around (Sept. 18) AP Six states above all others have emerged as the top electoral prizes in the 2020 … And that has Republicans, Democrats and outside groups on high alert for any potential wrinkles that could lead to winning or losing a few thousand ballots and affect the election result. The four states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, shown here in a 2019 photo, joined election officials from three other battleground states – Ohio, Michigan and Georgia – to discuss election disinformation Thursday. Steven Peterson, 59, a Democrat who owns a greenhouse in Lake Mills, said he was supporting Mr. Biden in part because he was concerned about the future of the federal courts should Mr. Trump win a second term. “I got a call from a Schweikert campaign member yesterday saying: ‘It looks good. US election 2020 live results: Every state, poll, race and result Joe Biden may be celebrating, but there are still four states left to call and they are headed for a nail-biting finish. Jacqueline Pernell, a 72-year-old owner of a pots and pans business, also said Mr. Biden looked set to win more support from Black voters in Philadelphia than Mrs. Clinton did. “If you can’t wait, come back. “For me, the environment is the biggest issue — if we don’t take care of that, there is no future,” said Father Ed Eschweiler, 99. And Health care was a top priority for Marylouise Felhofer, 68, a retired Navy nurse, also of Oconomowoc. “Our area tends to be Republican, probably two to one,” said Mr. Teichmiller, who predicted that Mr. Trump would win in the region, but by a smaller margin than in 2016. The good news: Early voting sites are placed within about two miles of one another throughout the Las Vegas Valley, and voters can choose any of the locations in Clark County. Tammy Osborn, 46, rose early to get to a voting site before long lines formed, searching polling places near her home and workplace until she found a short line. Georgia: Up and down the ballot, racism is an issue. In a state where one party has dominated for years, and where the Republican primary was once the bellwether election that determined winners and losers, Texas has been watching, slack-jawed, at what happens when a two-party state holds a general election during a presidential race. Whitmer won Kent County in 2018, and Obama took it in 2008, but outside of those two, Kent County has always been Republican.”. In Professor Schultz’s class, one student urged his classmates to cast their ballots. Hiral Tipirneni, a Democrat, is attempting to unseat Representative David Schweikert and flip Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District. When we forecast the 2020 electoral map based on the 2018 midterm election results, it becomes very clear that President Trump must wage a two-front war to win re-election in a new set of 2020 battleground states: He must defend the Rust Belt states that sealed his victory in 2016, also defend against clear Republican erosion in the Sunbelt.. As former Clinton political … “It started out as a business dispute,” he said. For a Democrat to win statewide, Mr. Bullock said, he or she must get 30 percent of white support, and African-Americans need to cast at least 30 percent of the total votes. In Marathon, Wisconsin’s largest county by area, voters traditionally lean Republican. This is a tense election season in Georgia, a Deep South state with a long history of segregation, a population that is 32 percent Black and a broader explosion of ethnic and racial diversity that is benefiting Democrats and moving the state from red to purple. Based on analysis of these districts' electoral histories, these races had the potential to be more competitive than other races and could possibly have led to shifts in a … Here are the 20 election-related stories that stood out in Arizona in 2020. Texas: All of a sudden, a two-party election in the Lone Star State. The Rev. At least six people were taken to a hospital, according to the local authorities. If that’s the case, then no, I don’t want to vote.”. Ms. Hume, a professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was on a town green, warming up the regular Saturday morning CrossFit class she coaches for young adults with autism when the parade started past her group. A perennial battleground state where voters are known for their political independence, Iowa, whose population is 90 percent white, has voted for the winner of the presidential race in six out of the past seven elections, including for Mr. Trump, Barack Obama twice and George W. Bush’s re-election. He said he was certain Mr. Trump would win because of “stuff like this, when he’s pulling 5,000 or 10,000 people at a rally.”. Nevada: As early voting begins, voters try to make sure their ballots are counted. What that means is that Democrats, who have benefited from the state’s rising populations of college graduates, younger voters and minorities, are sure to loosen the Republican grip on power in Texas. Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. “I haven’t requested an absentee ballot. “The open question is what’s happening with the so-called purple areas,” Mr. Chaudhuri said. There are nine key battleground … Jane Kleeb, the chairwoman of the Nebraska Democratic Party, described the campaign rally as “a potential superspreader event.”.