Joe Biden surpassed Obama's record of most votes by a presidential candidate
Joe Biden has received more than 72 million votes while Obama's record was 69 million votes in 2008
We might have to wait for bit longer before the winner could
be declared. But Joe Biden is a clear winner as far as the popular votes is
concerned. He has broken the record set
by Former president Obama in 2008 when he got more than 69 million votes.
Joe Biden has so far received more than 72 million votes. Democrat
Presidential candidate Joe Biden broke the record for receiving the highest
votes ever for a presidential candidate in the history of US politics.
Currently, the ballots are being counted across the country,
especially in battleground states. As of now, no candidate has secured 270
electoral votes, which are necessary to win the elections. Most polls claimed
that Biden would win the elections, but with both the candidates fighting
neck-and-neck, the results remain hard to predict.
As of now, Biden is leading the incumbent president Donald
Trump by 3.7 million votes, and is expected to win the popular vote with big
majority.
In 2016 too, Trump had lost popular votes to Hillary Clinton
by 3 million. However, he did beat his 2016 numbers, whereby he had secured
62,980,160 votes. This time, he has clocked in 68 million votes.
Trump declared his victory before the official count
ended, while Joe Biden announced that he will emerge victorious after all the
votes are accounted for.
US president Trump had recently called on the counting to
stop, while earlier claiming that the results should be declared on the same
day as the election - November 3. He also claimed that due to ongoing counting,
chances of voting fraud in the elections are high.
In key states like Pennsylvania and Arizona, vote counting
is underway. And a ruling by a top court in Pennsylvania had recently allowed
counting mail-in ballots that arrive up to 3 days after the election date,
something Trump has vowed to challenge.
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