- Democrats won the 2020 election by mobilizing new voters and getting some 2016 Trump and Jill Stein voters to switch to Biden. If the 2020 electorate had only consisted of "standpatters" (individuals who vote in all elections and consistently affiliate with one party), Trump would have won. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/fall-of-trump-mobilization-and-vote-switching-in-the-2020-presidential-election/54A7D26C371AC3CE26AD78D866695A17 898 comments science