Joe Biden has become the most voted candidate in American history.
The former vice president of Barack Obama has broken the barrier imposed in 2016 by Hillary Clinton who, despite winning the election in number of votes (more than 61 million), could not reach the White House.
A 77-year-old white man is now rewriting the story for his party, which has passed 73 million votes.
The Democratic victory, led by Senator Kamala Harris, was built with the reconquest of the Midwest, lost in the populist wave led by Donald Trump.
A potential Biden victory adjusts the political map of America for the next four years.
Here are some points of the new configuration.
The Rust Belt turns blue
It took several hours, but Biden was finally able to tip the balance in the Midwest.
They have been days of an agonizing recount that ended up decanting the
Michigan
,
Wisconsin
Democrats
.
Pennsylvania has
yet to be conquered.
The States form the so-called
Rust Belt
, the
Rust Belt
, along with Indiana and Ohio, which Donald Trump has retained.
This industrial zone was a solid Democratic stronghold, which found in the working lower class a granary of support.
Four years ago, however, the region joined the Trump experiment, burdened by decades of decline and job losses transplanted to other parts of the world where labor is cheaper.
The regions gave a vote of confidence to the atypical Republican candidate, who promised to defend all the forgotten of the rural area.
The change of direction of the vote does not mean that the rural population has changed their opinion.
These territories continued to support Trump for the most part.
Urban areas, much more diverse and with more electoral weight, turned in favor of Biden.
This is the case of Kent County, Michigan, where Trump closed his campaign on Monday night.
I was looking to repeat the path traced four years ago.
There it closed and there it won.
But Grand Rapids, the county's main city and its suburbs, has turned its back on him by voting for Biden.
In Wisconsin, the Democrat increased the results of Hillary Clinton in the most important cities.
Conquests of the south
Georgia has
voted Republican for 24 years.
The last time he endorsed a Democratic candidate was Bill Clinton, a Southerner from Arkansas.
Biden, however, has won important victories in the main cities of the state, greatly improving Hillary Clinton's performance in 2016 in the region.
If the map of the triumphs of the Secretary of State of Barack Obama were superimposed on that of Biden, not many differences would be noticed.
There were no counties jumping sides.
The turnout did change and strongly promoted the Democrat.
Biden surpassed one million votes in the Atlanta metropolitan area, the largest in the state.
Four years ago, Clinton barely exceeded 800,000 votes in that area.
The same happened in other urban centers in the region.
The arrival of new voter profiles explains the change.
They are younger and have university studies.
This marks a line with the rural areas of one of the states that were part of the Confederacy.
It's not just demographics that explain this story.
Georgia has a white majority, but 51% of Atlantans are African American.
Racial tension and underrepresentation throughout the Trump Administration have also been a factor in the mass voting of minorities.
In 2018, Stacey Abrams, a community rights activist, tried to become governor for the Democratic Party.
He failed to do so, but his effort led to 800,000 people registering as new voters.
And this Tuesday they voted for the first time.
Other traditional fiefdoms for Republicans are undergoing similar transformations.
This is the case of
Texas
, which was taken for granted that it would be painted red on election night.
The question is for how long.
The gap between Democrats and Republicans has been closing thanks to increasingly diverse communities.
Mitt Romney won the state with a difference of 12% of the votes over Obama.
Trump did it on Clinton with 9%.
Pending final results, Biden has cut the difference to 6%.
Texas has 254 counties.
The electoral weight is concentrated in 27, which produce 69% of the votes of this territory in which 29 million people live.
There are the big urban centers, such as Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso.
They all have a growing Hispanic population, increasingly politically involved.
Latinos test their strength
The Latino vote has been decisive both in
Florida
, to the east, and in Arizona, to the west.
The battle in these states shows that politicians cannot view the Hispanic voter as a monolithic bloc.
In Florida they were a tool for Trump's triumph, mainly in Miami-Dade County.
There he was supported by 55% of the population of Cuban origin.
The number drops to 30% among Puerto Ricans and 48% among others, according to exit polls published by the NBC network.
In
Arizona
, on the other hand, they were an instrument to propel Biden.
Latinos represent 23% of the electorate in this border state that, with the exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, has voted for Republicans since 1952. Trump's racist discourse and the immigration policies promoted by the most radical sectors of the Administration mobilized this minority, mainly of Mexican origin.
Six out of 10 voted for the Biden and Harris formula in Maricopa County (Phoenix), where 60% of the state's vote is concentrated.
The Latino effort was joined by a coalition of Republicans disenchanted with Trump, led by Cindy McCain (widow of Senator John McCain).
This may be one of the least expected surprises in choosing a country that has changed.
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