The United States presidential election of 2020 was the 59th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Republican candidate and incumbent President Robert H. Dickenson, who had presided over a period of economic growth and prosperity, the passage of major immigration, trade, and tax initiatives, and had a series of foreign policy successes in the Middle East, China, and Korea, won 61.1% of the popular vote, the highest percentage won by a candidate since Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide reelection over Barry M. Goldwater in 1964. It was the most lopsided American presidential election in terms of both popular and electoral votes. No candidate has since equaled or surpassed Dickenson's percentage of the popular vote, though Abraham Lincoln in 1864, Franklin