People gather to protest US President Donald Trump's threat to contest the election results during a 'Count every vote' rally in Boston, Massachusetts on November 4, 2020.Getty Images/Joseph Prezioso
- The 2020 election has broken at least six major records so far.
- Voters made Oregon the first state to decriminalize small amounts of drugs, and the youngest member of Congress in modern history has been elected to the House of Representatives.
A presidential election held in the middle of a pandemic was bound to have a few firsts, but the 2020 election is shaping up to set a slew of new records.
As in 2018, 2020 also carried with it a host of diverse candidates — from the youngest member of Congress in modern history to the first openly gay Black men elected to the US House of Representatives.
Here are just a few of the election cycle's record-shattering developments.