Donald Trump

=== 2020 presidential campaign ===
[[File:Donald Trump (50548265318).jpg|thumb|Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in [[Arizona]]|alt=Trump points his finger at a campaign rally, with crowds behind him]]
{{Main|Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign}}
{{See also|2020 United States presidential debates}}
Breaking with precedent, Trump filed to run for a second term with the FEC within a few hours of assuming the presidency.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.azfamily.com/story/34380443/trump-breaks-precedent-files-on-first-day-as-candidate-for-re-election|title=Trump breaks precedent, files as candidate for re-election on first day|work=[[KTVK]]|first=Lee|last=Morehouse|date=January 31, 2017|access-date=February 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202210255/http://www.azfamily.com/story/34380443/trump-breaks-precedent-files-on-first-day-as-candidate-for-re-election|archive-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> He held his first reelection rally less than a month after taking office<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-kicks-off-his-2020-reelection-campaign-on-saturday/516909/|title=Trump Kicks Off His 2020 Reelection Campaign on Saturday|last=Graham|first=David A.|work=[[The Atlantic]]|date=February 15, 2017|access-date=February 19, 2017}}</ref> and officially became the [[2020 Republican Party presidential primaries|Republican nominee]] in August 2020.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Martin|first1=Jonathan|author-link1=Jonathan Martin (journalist)|last2=Burns|first2=Alexander|author-link2=Alex Burns (journalist)|last3=Karni|first3=Annie|author-link3=Annie Karni|title=Nominating Trump, Republicans Rewrite His Record|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/politics/republican-convention-recap.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 24, 2020|access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref>

In his first two years in office, Trump's reelection committee reported raising $67.5&nbsp;million and began 2019 with $19.3&nbsp;million in cash.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trump-money-campaign-2020/|publisher=[[Center for Public Integrity]]|date=February 1, 2019|access-date=October 8, 2021|first1=Ashley|last1=Balcerzak|first2=Dave|last2=Levinthal|first3=Carrie|last3=Levine|first4=Sarah|last4=Kleiner|first5=Lateshia|last5=Beachum|title=Donald Trump's campaign cash machine: big, brawny and burning money}}</ref> By July 2020, the Trump campaign and the Republican Party had raised $1.1&nbsp;billion and spent $800&nbsp;million, losing their cash advantage over Biden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html|title=How Trump's Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 7, 2020|access-date=October 8, 2021|first1=Shane|last1=Goldmacher|first2=Maggie|last2=Haberman|author-link2=Maggie Haberman}}</ref> The cash shortage forced the campaign to scale back advertising spending.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Misyrlena|last1=Egkolfopoulou|first2=Bill|last2=Allison|first3=Gregory|last3=Korte|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/trump-campaign-slashes-ad-spending-in-key-states-in-cash-crunch|work=[[Bloomberg News]]|date=September 14, 2020|access-date=October 8, 2021|title=Trump Campaign Slashes Ad Spending in Key States in Cash Crunch}}</ref>

Trump campaign advertisements focused on crime, claiming that cities would descend into lawlessness if Biden won the presidency.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/politics/trump-portland-federal-agents.html|title=As Trump Pushes into Portland, His Campaign Ads Turn Darker|date=July 21, 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|first1=Maggie|last1=Haberman|author-link1=Maggie Haberman|first2=Nick|last2=Corasaniti|first3=Annie|last3=Karni|author-link3=Annie Karni|access-date=July 25, 2020}}</ref> Trump repeatedly misrepresented Biden's positions<ref>{{cite news|first=Philip|last=Bump|title=Nearly every claim Trump made about Biden's positions was false|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/28/nearly-every-claim-trump-made-about-bidens-positions-was-false/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 28, 2020|access-date=October 9, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Daniel|last1=Dale|author-link1=Daniel Dale|first2=Tara|last2=Subramaniam|first3=Holmes|last3=Lybrand|title=Fact check: Trump makes more false claims about Biden and protests|url=https://cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/trump-kenosha-briefing-fact-check/|work=[[CNN]]|date=August 31, 2020|access-date=October 9, 2021}}</ref> and shifted to appeals to racism.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hopkins|first=Dan|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-trumps-racist-appeals-might-be-less-effective-in-2020-than-they-were-in-2016|work=[[FiveThirtyEight]]|title=Why Trump's Racist Appeals Might Be Less Effective In 2020 Than They Were In 2016|date=August 27, 2020 |access-date=May 28, 2021}}</ref>