Sunday, November 22, 2020

Biden's popular vote lead over Trump stretches to more than 6m


Biden's absolute and percentage win of the popular vote will  actually be bigger than the official numbers, because some mail-in ballots are rejected for things like forgetting to sign, or putting the wrong date, or got there too late to be counted, and Democrats were more likely to vote by mail.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/21/joe-biden-popular-vote-count-trump-election

Sat 21 Nov 2020 12.23 EST

Joe Biden’s popular vote lead over Donald Trump has now stretched to more than 6m as he continues to rack up the highest number of votes in American history.

The Democratic challenger, and now president-elect, currently has 79,823,827 compared to the president’s 73,786,905 – itself a record for a losing candidate in terms of sheer number of votes cast.

Biden’s win in the popular vote tally has also delivered him a convincing mandate in the all-important electoral college, which actually decides who becomes the next occupant of the White House, after flipping states like Georgia, Arizona and the midwestern rust belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

However, it has not stopped Trump and many of his Republican allies from seeking to undermine the result of the election by launching a series of lawsuits and technical objections and asking for recounts. None of the tactics have shown any evidence to back up Trump’s false claims of widespread ballot fraud.


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