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r/Politics 2020 Year-In-Review – What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
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r/Politics 2020 Year-In-Review – What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:12 PM PST

We all knew 2020 would be an eventful year given the highly important presidential election in November. But we had no idea exactly how crazy this year would be. This post recaps several of the major events of 2020, as demonstrated by the megathreads and discussion threads posted on r/politics this year.

Iran: The year started with the death of Qassim Soleimani via a U.S. airstrike¹ , the House of Representatives approving a measure to restrain President Donald Trump's actions on Iran² , and the subsequent Iran airstrike on a U.S. airbase in Iraq³ .

Impeachment: President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial in January and subsequent acquittal on February 5, which was covered in twenty-four discussion threads^{4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27} and nine megathreads^{28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36} . President Trump subsequently fired multiple impeachment witnesses^37,38 .

State of the Union: President Trump gave his annual State of the Union address on February 5^39,40 .

Democratic Primary Debates: The Democratic Presidential Primary Debates, which began in 2019, continued in 2020 with the 7th debate on January 14^41,42 , 8th debate on February 7^43,44,45 , 9th debate on February 19^46,47,48,49 , 10th debate on February 25^50,51,52,53 , and 11th debate on March 15^54,55 .

Democratic Candidates' Status: Simultaneously, several Democratic primary candidates dropped out of the race in January and February: Julián Castro on January 2^56,57 , Marianne Williamson on January 10, Cory Booker on January 13⁵⁸ , John Delaney on January 31, Andrew Yang on February 11⁵⁹ , Deval Patrick on February 12, and Tom Steyer on February 29⁶⁰ .

Primaries and Caucuses: The Democratic primary and caucus season started on February 3 with the Iowa Caucus (won by Buttigieg)^{61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72} . Then came the New Hampshire Primary on February 11 (won by Sanders)^{73,74,75,76,77} , the Nevada Caucus on February 22 (won by Sanders)^78,79,80,81, and the South Carolina Primary on February 29 (won by Biden)^82,83,84,85. On March 1, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Steyer ended their campaigns endorsed Biden^86,87,88 . Several states held their primaries on March 3 (Super Tuesday)^{89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98} . On March 4, Warren ended her presidential campaign⁹⁹ and March 10 (Super Tuesday Part II)^{100,101,102,103,104} . The rest of the states held their primaries and caucuses ^{105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117} . Bernie Sanders ended his candidacy on April 8¹¹⁸ and endorsed Biden on April 13¹¹⁹ . Barack Obama endorsed Biden on April 14¹²⁰ .

Coronavirus: Starting on March 10, President Trump and/or Vice President Pence conducted frequent Coronavirus Task Force Press Briefings before fizzling out^{121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159} . Megathreads related to the coronavirus pandemic included Trump suspending travel from Europe¹⁶⁰ , Trump declaring a national emergency¹⁶¹ , the coronavirus relief bill^162,163,164 , Trump removing the watchdog overseeing the coronavirus relief bill¹⁶⁵ , Trump halting funding for the WHO¹⁶⁶ , Trump temporarily suspending immigration into the U.S.¹⁶⁷ , the revelations in Bob Woodward's book¹⁶⁸ , and the second coronavirus relief bill^{169,170,171,172} .

Kamala Harris: On August 11, Joe Biden announced that he selected Kamala Harris as his running mate^172,173 .

Conventions: In August, the political parties each held their conventions: Democratic Convention on August 17-20^{174,175,176,177} and Republican Convention on August 24-27^{178,179,180,181} .

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: On September 18, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away^182,183 . We hosted a series of discussion threads regarding the nomination, hearings, and confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett as the newest Supreme Court Justice^{184,185,186,187,188,189,190,191,192,193} .

Presidential Debates: The General Election Presidential Debates were held on September 29^{194,195,196,197,198} and October 22^{199,200,201,202,203} and the Vice Presidential Debate was held on October 7^{204,205,206,207} . Biden and Trump also held a number of town halls throughout the fall^{208,209,210,211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218,219,220} .

Supreme Court Hearings and Opinions: Throughout the year, we hosted several discussion threads and megathreads for Supreme Court hearings and opinions^{221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233} .

White House Press Briefings: We also hosted thirty four discussion threads for White House Press Briefings^{234,235,236,237,238,239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,250,251,252,253,254,255,256,257,258,259,260,261,262,263,264,265,266,267} and forty discussion threads for President Trump's press briefings^{268,269,270,271,272,273,274,275,276,277,278,279,280,281,282,283,284,285,286,287,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295,296,297,298,299,300,301,302,303,304,305,306,307,308} . Biden also gave a number of prepared remarks and press conferences^{309,310,311,312,313,314,315,316} .

COVID-19 Diagnoses: On October 3, President Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19^{317,318,319,320,321,322,323,324,325} . Several other notable political figures were also diagnosed with COVID-19, including Rand Paul^326, Hope Hicks^327, Stephen Miller^328, and Rudy Giuliani³²⁹ .

Daily general election Discussion Threads: For about five weeks leading up to the presidential election, we posted a daily general election discussion thread^{330,331,332,333,334,335,336,337,338,339,340,341,342,343,344,345,346,347,348,349,350,350,352,353,354,355,356,357,358,359,360,361,362,363,364,365,366,367,368} .

Presidential Election: On the day of the presidential election (November 3) and while votes were being counted, we posted over eighty election discussion threads. Rather than linking to all of these individually, you can find them all in our election recap thread. It was nice to be able to hang out together while anxiously awaiting the results!

Joe Biden officially passed the 270 electoral vote mark on December 14, thus affirming his victory as President-Elect³⁶⁹ . The Trump Campaign and other Republicans lost several lawsuits since the election^{370,371,372,373,374} . The GSA began the transition process on November 24³⁷⁵ . Attorney General Bill Barr stated that there was no widespread election fraud³⁷⁶ .The Justice Department began investigating a potential presidential pardon bribery scheme³⁷⁷ . Mitch McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election³⁷⁸ .

Congressional Hearings: We've hosted discussion threads for fourteen Congressional hearings, including Barr, Fauci, Redfield, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, DeJoy, and Yates^{379,380,381,382,383,384,385,386,387,388,389,390,391,392} .

Pardons: Over the past couple of weeks, Trump granted pardons and clemency to dozens^{393,394,395,396} .

AMAs: We've hosted a ton of interesting guests for AMAs this year. A complete list of all AMAs is available here. Notable guests include:

Ace Watkins: our April Fools AMA, the ONLY gamer running for president
Ron Klain: Chief of Staff to VP Biden, now pegged to be Chief of Staff to President Biden
The Satanic Temple: discussing their "Satanic Abortion Ritual", and religious exemptions to anti-abortion laws
Ben Hovland: chairman of the US Elections Assistance Commission
Kim Wyman and Steve Simon: Secretaries of State back for their 3rd annual NVRD AMA
Pete Buttigieg: discussing his work on Biden's campaign

2020 has been an absolutely wild year. Here's hoping for a far less eventful year in 2021!

Happy New Year,

The r/Politics Moderation Team

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Hi, r/politics! We’re part of the USA Today Georgia team. We have been covering the 2020 elections in Georgia, which has now shifted into two U.S. Senate runoffs that could determine the balance of power. Ask us anything!

Posted: 01 Jan 2021 08:00 AM PST

While many other states wrapped up election coverage in November, the state of Georgia decided to run it back for another round — complete with multiple recounts, audits and two runoff elections that could determine the balance of power in the country. U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) is facing Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) to replace the retired Johnny Isakson's seat, which Loeffler was appointed into by Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this year. On the other side, U.S. Sen. David Perdue (R) faces Jon Ossoff (D) in his bid for re-election. Zach Dennis is an editor for the Savannah Morning News and Susan McCord is a reporter for the Augusta Chronicle.

Here are recent posts regarding the election: https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/30/kemp-to-trump-state-law-prohibits-governorrsquos-interference-in-georgia-election-results/115074350/ https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2020/12/30/president-donald-trump-georgia-governor-brian-kemp-resign-senate-runoff-election-2021/4086329001/ https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/politics/elections/congressional/2020/12/29/federal-judge-abrams-sister-blocks-true-vote-effort/4071766001/

https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/politics/elections/congressional/2020/12/16/raffensperger-sterling-defend-georgia-election-disinformation/3919955001/

Proof: https://i.redd.it/srup1o34ad861.jpg

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Trickle-down economics is dead. It’s time to tax the rich harder

Posted: 01 Jan 2021 06:13 AM PST