[2] Kentucky voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris.

Trump's overhaul of Obama-era coal emissions standards helped him win coal-industry households,[4] once again sweeping the historically-Democratic Eastern Kentucky counties.

Trump also carried 83% of White evangelical/born-again Christians, per exit polls by the Associated Press.

This also marks the second consecutive election in which no county in the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield voted Democratic.

[7] Incumbent President Donald Trump ran unopposed in the Republican primary.