All of the important primary, convention, and debate dates you need to know for the 2020 presidential election

• February 3: Iowa caucus.
• February 11: New Hampshire primary.
• February 22: Nevada Democratic caucus.
• February 29: South Carolina Democratic primary
• March 3 — Super Tuesday: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Vermont primaries, Virginia Democratic primary. Democratic voters living overseas also cast primary ballots.
• March 8: Puerto Rico Republican primary.
• March 10: Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, and Washington primaries, Hawaii Republican caucus, North Dakota Democratic primary.
• March 14: Northern Marinara Islands Democratic caucus.
• March 17: Florida, Illinois, and Ohio primaries, Arizona Democratic primary.
• March 24: Georgia primary.
• March 27: North Dakota Republican convention.
• March 29: Puerto Rico Democratic primary.
• April 4: Alaska, Hawaii, and Wyoming Democratic primaries/caucuses, Louisiana primary for both parties.
• April 7: Wisconsin primary.
• April 28: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island primaries.
• May 2: Kansas and Guam Democratic primary/caucus.
• May 5: Indiana primary.
• May 12: Nebraska and West Virginia primaries.
• May 19: Kentucky and Oregon primaries.
• June 2: Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, and District of Columbia primaries.
• June 6: US Virgin Islands Democratic caucus.

The Democratic National Committee has already hosted Democratic primary debates in June, July, September, and October, and is set to hold a debate every month from now until April 2020.

The DNC has made every debate qualification threshold progressively stricter over time.

So far, nine candidates have qualified for the fifth Democratic primary debate, which will be co-hosted by the Washington Post and MSNBC in the Atlanta, Georgia area on Wednesday, November 20.

Earlier this month, the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced the dates and locations for three presidential and one vice-presidential debate to be held in the fall of 2020:

• September 29: First presidential debate at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana.
• October 7: Vice presidential debate at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City.
• October 15: Second presidential debate at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
• October 22: Third presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

CPD said that all four debates will begin at 9:00 PM ET and will run for 90 minutes with no commercial breaks.

Every four years, inauguration day is held on January 20 the year after the election when every state's electors cast their votes.

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