The Roads to Congress 2020: Campaigning in the Era of Trump and COVID-19

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Congressional Campaign and Election Trends -- 1 The 2020 Elections Overview: A Campaign Cycle Like No Other -- Unprecedented Campaign Year -- Impeachment -- Congress Stands Divided -- What's Good for the Goose…? -- Intraparty Battles -- Sizing Up the 2020 Elections -- Breaking Down the Roads to Congress 2020 -- 2 The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the 2020 Elections -- Polarization and the Pandemic -- Running Amid the Coronavirus -- Election Administration During a Pandemic -- Conclusion -- 3 Stress Test: Three Case Studies on Vote by Mail During a Global Pandemic -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Case Selection -- Washington -- Georgia -- Oklahoma -- Data -- Results -- Conclusion -- 4 Getting Good and Mad: Exploring the Use of Anger on Twitter by Female Candidates in 2020 -- How Women Campaign -- Anger in Campaigns -- Data -- Findings -- Angry Tweets in 2020 -- Discussion -- Part II U.S. House of Representatives Case Studies -- 5 Southern California's Flipped Congressional Districts: Bumpy Roads to Reelection and Defeat -- District Characteristics and Partisan Trends -- Candidates -- The Democrats -- The Republicans -- Campaign Issues and Strategy -- The Early California Primary -- Political Activities During the Pandemic -- Campaign Finance -- Voting in the Pandemic -- Election Results -- Prospects for 2022 -- 6 Florida's 26th and 27th Congressional Districts: No Socialists, No Communists, No Way -- Welcome to South Florida -- Florida's 26th Congressional District: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell V. Carlos Gimenez -- The Candidates for Florida's 26th District -- Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (Democrat-Incumbent) -- Carlos Gimenez (Republican) -- Republican Primary -- Florida's 26th District Campaign Issues.