| Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2020 | ||||
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| February 1 - June 8, 2020 | ||||
| Turnout | 55.8% | |||
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| Candidate | Cory Booker | Kamala Harris | ||
| Home state | New Jersey | California | ||
| Delegate count | 2,672 | 2,091 | ||
| Contests won | 35 | 21 | ||
| Popular vote | 14,868,527 | 12,943,954 | ||
| Percentage | 53.1% | 46.3% | ||
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The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of 56 electoral contests taking place within all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories to determine the Democratic nominee for president for the 2020 presidential election. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker secured the nomination with relative ease despite an initial tight race with California Senator Kamala Harris.
After the surprising defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Democrats were left to search for a new generation of candidates to challenge President Donald Trump. The primaries first started with a field of six candidates (Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Martin O'Malley, Tim Kaine, Sherrod Brown, and Lincoln Chafee); however, the field was reduced to Booker and Harris by Super Tuesday, as Chafee and O'Malley withdrew before the start of the campaign and Kaine and Brown withdrew early on due to low polling numbers and poor contest results.
Results of the 2020 Democratic primaries. Green denotes contests won by Cory Booker, gold denotes contests won by Kamala Harris.