11/04/2020 3:16 PM
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Updated 11/04/2020 3:16 PM
The Democratic candidate for the White House, Joe Biden, has already accumulated more votes than Barack Obama achieved in the 2008 elections, in which he won his first electoral victory, thus surpassing the record set by who was the first black president of the United States. United.
According to
the count offered by the Fox News network
, Biden has received
more than 69.77 million votes so far
, compared to the 69.49 that Obama obtained in his first elections, in which he won the Republican John McCain, who added 59 , 94 million.
In the opinion of Nate Silver, director of the portal Five Thirty Eight, specializing in electoral matters, it is very likely that
Biden will end up obtaining "around 80 million"
if the total participation is about 155 million.
Some 101 million people voted by mail or early, quoted the Europa Press news agency.
In turn, Trump, who according to Fox News has 67.16 million votes, could end up with "between 73 and 75 million," Silver wrote on his Twitter, predicting that both would end up beating Obama's record.
However, being the most voted candidate does not mean being elected President, since the election in the United States is indirect and the suffrage of citizens goes to their representatives in the Electoral College, which is the one that finally elects the president.
In the history of the United States, there have been five candidates who came to power without having won the popular vote.
The last of them was Trump himself.
In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton got almost 2.9 million more votes than Republican Trump, but he surpassed the 270 delegates needed in the Electoral College.
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