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The timeline under the Presidential column has the incorrect comment that the person who will be President in 2020 is yet "to be determined". This information is incorrect. We know who the President is going to be in 2020. It is President Trump. That is a fact and there is no reason to have the false information posted that it is "TBD". It is false. Yes, there is going to be a Presidential election this year but that person (be it Trump or Biden) will not take office until 2021, not 2020. If the Timeline in the article was indicating who is President in 2021 then TBD note would make sense. But it is not. The Timeline stops in 2020. If the editor who keeps putting it back in believes that it needs to be there (It doesn't) then that editor needs to extend the Timeline into 2021, which doesn't make sense since Wikipedia does not see into the future. The "TBD" note is unnecessary and it doesn't make sense for 2020. It needs to be removed. -- CharlesShirley (talk) 16:09, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The last column of the timeline for this and other state party strength articles identifies the result of election year voting by the electoral college, not the nation's presidential terms. Current and prior entries in this column have their range beginning in the election year, not when a president began office. —ADavidB 19:14, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Just because every single one of the templates for the states mark the dates incorrectly does not make it right. Trump is the President in 2020, that is a fact, and no amount of defending a mistake makes it not a mistake. If the focus is the Electors then that 2020 TBD nonsense still doesn't work properly. They might vote in December 2020, but the ballots are not opened and counted until January 2021 and the winner will take office in January 2021. It is ludicrous. So let's assume that the TBD wording stays. Why does the reader have to be forwarded to the snarky article on "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball? That is nonsense too. Why can't there simple be the statement that the vote has not taken place yet and leave it at that? There is no reason to be led to the snarky article. -- CharlesShirley (talk) 20:36, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This article is not claiming Trump is not president in 2020. It is showing that Texas has not yet shown a party strength this election year for a presidential candidate. I am fine with changing TBD to something else – maybe "election pending" or something similar. —ADavidB 01:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
