Thursday, November 26, 2020

Biden becomes the first presidential candidate in US history to win 80 million votes — and counting


https://news.yahoo.com/biden-becomes-first-presidential-candidate-214343350.html

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-80-million-votes-most-presidential-candidate-in-history-2020-11

 

Oma Seddiq
Wed, November 25, 2020, 4:43 PM EST



President-elect Joe Biden continues to rack up the most votes won by any presidential candidate in US history.

At least 80 million people ticked the Democratic box in the 2020 presidential election as of Wednesday afternoon. The figure is only expected to increase while election officials continue counting votes across the country.

Biden breaks the record held by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, who secured 69.5 million votes in 2008, with Biden on the ticket as his running mate. The president-elect surpassed that number only a day after the election.

In the weeks since, a tremendous amount of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic dramatically increased Biden's tally and propelled him to victory. Insider and Decision Desk HQ called the race for Biden on Nov. 6. 


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The United States Election Project, which tracks votes, estimates that around 159 million people voted this election, crushing voter turnout rates in over a century at roughly 66.7%. The last high was 73.7% in 1900. 


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