2020 United States Senate election in Rhode Island

The 2020 United States Senate election in Rhode Island was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Rhode Island, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic Senator Jack Reed was challenged by Republican nominee Allen Waters. Waters was later disavowed by the state Republican Party after charges of domestic assault in 2019 became public.[1]

2020 United States Senate election in Rhode Island
November 3, 2020
 
Nominee Jack Reed Allen Waters
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 328,574 164,855
Percentage 66.5% 33.4%
County results
Reed:      60–70%
U.S. senator before election

Jack Reed
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Senator

Jack Reed
Democratic

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Reed easily won a fifth term in office with 66.5% of the vote and a 33.1% margin. Despite Reed's clear landslide victory, this was actually Reed's worst Senate re-election performance, and the first time since 1996 in which he failed to receive at least 70% of the vote. Nevertheless, Reed outperformed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by 7.2% in the concurrent presidential election, the largest overperformance by any Democratic Senate candidate in 2020.[2]

Democratic primary

Nominee

Primary results
Democratic primary results[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jack Reed (incumbent) 65,859 100.0%
Total votes 65,859 100.0%

Republican primary

Nominee
  • Allen R. Waters, investment consultant[5]

Primary results
Republican primary results[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Allen Waters 8,819 100.0%
Total votes 8,819 100.0%

Independents

Disqualified
  • Lenine Camacho[6]

General election

Predictions
Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report[7] Safe D August 17, 2020
Inside Elections[8] Safe D September 18, 2020
Sabato's Crystal Ball[9] Safe D August 5, 2020
Daily Kos[10] Safe D August 31, 2020
Politico[11] Safe D September 9, 2020
RCP[12] Safe D September 17, 2020
Niskanen[13] Safe D September 15, 2020
DDHQ[14] Safe D September 16, 2020
538[15] Safe D September 18, 2020

Results
United States Senate election in Rhode Island, 2020[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Jack Reed (incumbent) 328,574 66.48% -4.10%
Republican Allen Waters 164,855 33.35% +4.10%
Write-in 833 0.17% ±0.00%
Total votes 494,262 100.0%
Democratic hold

See also

References
  1. Gregg, Katherine. "R.I. GOP rescinds endorsement of U.S. Senate candidate Allen Waters". The Providence Journal. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  2. Rakich, Nathaniel (December 2, 2020). "There Wasn't That Much Split-Ticket Voting In 2020". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
  3. Nesi, Ted (April 18, 2019). "Sen. Reed has $1.8M for 2020 re-election race". WPRI. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  4. "2020 Statewide Primary". State of Rhode Island - Board of Elections. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  5. Gregg, Katherine (December 16, 2019). "Providence native drops Mass. Senate bid to challenge Reed". Providence Journal. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  6. "Rhode Island Federal Candidate Database".
  7. "2020 Senate Race Ratings for April 19, 2019". The Cook Political Report. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  8. "2020 Senate Ratings". Senate Ratings. The Rothenberg Political Report. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  9. "2020 Senate race ratings". Sabato's Crystal Ball. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  10. "Daily Kos Elections releases initial Senate race ratings for 2020". Daily Kos Elections. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
  11. "2020 Election Forecast". Politico. November 19, 2019.
  12. "Battle for White House". RCP. April 19, 2019.
  13. "2020 Negative Partisanship and the 2020 Congressional Elections". Niskanen Center. April 28, 2020.
  14. "2020 Senate Elections Model". Decision Desk HQ. September 2, 2020. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  15. Silver, Nate (September 18, 2020). "Forecasting the race for the Senate". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  16. "2020 General Election - Statewide Summary". Rhode Island Board of Elections. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
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