Tag2020 presidential coverage

Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday afternoon, marking his third straight popular vote victory in the Democratic presidential primary. With 4% of precincts reporting, he had won 54% of the county convention delegates used to determine the number of pledged delegates allocated to each candidate.

Former Vice President Joe Biden followed with 18 percent of the county convention delegates. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg were in a close race for third with 10 percent and 9 percent, respectively.

The final delegate count is pending as a majority of precincts had not yet reported results as of 8:45 pm ET. The next Democratic presidential primary will be held in South Carolina on February 29, 2020.

On the Republican side, the Nevada Republican Party bound the state’s 25 delegates to President Donald Trump on Saturday at its winter meeting. The party voted to cancel its caucus last September.

Click here to learn more.

Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is an unknown who warrants a closer look.

Last week, Michael Bloomberg led all Democratic campaigns in pageviews. His campaign page was viewed 8,849 times, equaling 20.8% of pageviews for all Democratic campaigns. He was followed by Pete Buttigieg with 18.2% of pageviews and Bernie Sanders with 17.9%. This was the first week that Bloomberg led all Democratic candidates in pageviews since his page on Ballotpedia was published the week of November 30.

Three Democratic candidates received more pageviews this week relative to the last: Amy Klobuchar, Bloomberg, and Sanders. Klobuchar had the largest increase of 50.6 percent. Elizabeth Warren saw the largest decrease in pageviews relative to last week among Democratic candidates with 16.1 percent.

The top three current Democratic presidential candidates in lifetime pageviews are Buttigieg with 173,550, Joe Biden with 161,665, and Sanders with 146,596. Three candidates ended their campaigns last week: Michael Bennet, Deval Patrick, and Andrew Yang. Bennet’s campaign received 86,706 pageviews since publication, accounting for 7.2 percent of all Democratic presidential campaign pageviews. Patrick’s campaign received 11,929 pageviews (0.99 percent of the total) and Yang’s campaign received 172,329 pageviews (14.3 percent of the total).

Donald Trump ranked second of the three Republican candidates in pageviews last week. Trump received 6,586 pageviews, while Roque de la Fuente received 8,285 and Bill Weld received 6,479.

On Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) announced he was ending his presidential campaign. Based on results with 47% of precincts reporting, Bennet received 0.3% of the vote in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

Bennet finished in 10th place in the Iowa caucuses with 4 final votes. He participated in two of the eight Democratic presidential primary debates that took place while he campaigned.

Click here to read more.

Shortly after polls closed in the New Hampshire presidential primary on Feb. 11, Andrew Yang (D) announced he was ending his presidential campaign. Yang said, “I’m a numbers guy and if we are below a threshold where we are going to get delegates here in New Hampshire, if we are unlikely to hit that threshold in Nevada and South Carolina, it doesn’t seem like we are actually furthering the goals of the campaign by staying in the race longer.”

Yang finished in sixth place in the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 3, winning 1% of the state delegate equivalents. He participated in seven of the eight Democratic presidential primary debates that took place while he campaigned.

The cornerstone of Yang’s platform was what he called Freedom Dividend, a universal basic income that would pay every adult American citizen $1,000 per month.

Over the course of the campaign, Yang’s campaign page on Ballotpedia received 170,842 pageviews, the most of all Democratic presidential candidates.

Click here to learn more.

Click here to read about 2020 presidential campaign pageviews on Ballotpedia.

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is the Democratic delegate scoreboard leader, earning a projected 14 pledged delegates out of Iowa. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), the popular vote winner in Iowa, follows with 12 pledged delegates. The Sanders campaign requested the Iowa Democratic Party complete a partial recanvass of the results in 25 precincts and three satellite caucuses on Monday.

Three other candidates earned projected delegates in Iowa and have polled in the top five in New Hampshire: former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.).

In total, 33 Democrats are listed on the New Hampshire primary ballot. To be allocated one or more of New Hampshire’s 24 pledged delegates, a Democratic candidate must receive at least 15 percent support.

On the Republican side, President Donald Trump and 16 other Republicans are running for 22 delegates. Delegate allocation in the New Hampshire Republican primary is proportional.

Of the nine contested Democratic primaries since 1976, five New Hampshire primary winners became the nominee. On the Republican side, winners in six of the eight contested primaries became the nominee.

New Hampshire celebrates its centennial anniversary of holding the first-in-the-nation presidential primary this year. The nature of the primary has changed throughout the century, starting with voters choosing which party members would go to the nominating convention to backing the presidential candidate of their choice.

Additional Reading:

• Presidential election in New Hampshire, 2020
• Aftermath of Iowa Democratic caucuses, 2020

Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is an unknown who warrants a closer look.

Last week, Pete Buttigieg led all Democratic campaigns in pageviews. His campaign page was viewed 9,207 times, equaling 19.1% of pageviews for all Democratic campaigns this week. He was followed by Bernie Sanders with 15.1% of pageviews and Michael Bloomberg with 12.9%. Buttigieg became the third Democratic candidate to break 9,000 pageviews in a single week; Kamala Harris and Marianna Williamson each did so the week of June 29, following the first debates in Miami.

All Democratic candidates received more pageviews this week relative to last week. The candidate with the greatest increase from last week was Buttigieg. His campaign page increased in pageviews by 395.8 percent. Andrew Yang saw the smallest increase in pageviews relative to last week among Democratic candidates with 73.7 percent.

The top three Democratic presidential candidates in lifetime pageviews are Yang with 170,842, Buttigieg with 165,805, and Joe Biden with 156,705. Joe Walsh, who ended his presidential campaign last week, received 101,341 pageviews since August 2019, and accounted for 17.2 percent of all Republican presidential campaign pageviews.

Donald Trump ranked second of the three Republican candidates in pageviews last week. Trump received 5,285 pageviews, while Roque de la Fuente received 6,215 and Bill Weld received 5,210.

Click here to learn more.

The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity.

From February 3 to February 7, the Federal Register grew by 1,288 pages for a year-to-date total of 7,190 pages. Over the same period in 2019 and 2018, the Federal Register reached 3,094 pages and 5,870 pages, respectively. As of February 7, the 2020 total led the 2019 total by 4,096 pages and the 2018 total by 1,320 pages.

According to government data, the Federal Register hit an all-time high of 95,894 pages in 2016.

This week’s Federal Register featured the following 566 documents:
• 458 notices
• eight presidential documents
• 40 proposed rules
• 60 final rules

One proposed rule and no final rules were deemed significant under E.O. 12866—meaning that they could have large impacts on the economy, environment, public health, or state or local governments. Significant actions may also conflict with presidential priorities or other agency rules.

Ballotpedia maintains page counts and other information about the Federal Register as part of its Administrative State Project. The project is a neutral, nonpartisan encyclopedic resource that defines and analyzes the administrative state, including its philosophical origins, legal and judicial precedents, and scholarly examinations of its consequences. The project also monitors and reports on measures of federal government activity.

Click here to find more information about weekly additions to the Federal Register in 2018 and 2017.

Additional reading:

• Historical additions to the Federal Register, 1936-2016

The Democratic Party will hold its eighth presidential primary debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Feb. 7.

Seven candidates qualified for the debate: former Vice President Joe Biden, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, investor Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and businessman Andrew Yang.

Yang was the only candidate to qualify who did not participate in the Des Moines debate in January.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard crossed the donor threshold but only had two qualifying polls showing 5 percent support or more. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg reached the polling threshold but did not meet the donor requirements for the debate. He has declined to accept any contributions to his campaign.

The donor requirement was eliminated from the qualifying criteria for the next debate on Feb. 19 in Las Vegas.

Linsey Davis, David Muir, George Stephanopoulos, Adam Sexton, and Monica Hernandez will moderate Friday night’s debate, which takes place at St. Anselm College at 8:00 p.m. ET.

The New Hampshire primary will be held four days later on Feb. 11.

Click here to learn more.