<Tr> <Td> Incumbent President <P> Donald Trump Republican </P> </Td> <Td> <P> </P> </Td> </Tr> <P> Donald Trump Republican </P> <P> The United States presidential election of 2020, scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020, will be the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election . Voters will select presidential electors who in turn will either elect a new president and vice president through the electoral college or re-elect the incumbents . The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses are likely to be held during the first six months of 2020 . This nominating process is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee . </P> <P> President Donald Trump of the Republican Party, who was elected in 2016, is eligible to seek re-election . The winner of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated on January 20, 2021 . </P>

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