Presidential in the United States 2020: Joe Biden is already the most voted candidate in history

So far, in calculating the 2020 US Elections, the Democratic presidential candidate, Joe biden, already got more votes than Barack Obama got in the 2008 elections, which then gave him his first electoral victory, and thus surpassed this record.

According to the number of channels Fox News, Biden has garnered over 69.77 million votes so far, compared to Obama’s 69.49 million in his first presidential election, in which he won Republican John McCain, who won 59.94 million votes.

Also Biden’s social media They predicted today that the Democrat would get more votes than any other candidate in the country’s history.

According to portal director Nate Silver Five thirty-eight, specialized in electoral matters, it is very likely that Biden will end up getting “around 80 million” if the total share is around 155 million whereas more than 100 million Americans have voted by post or advance poll.

While the Republican candidate Donald Trump, who according to Fox News he currently has 67.16 million votes, it could end with “between 73 and 75 million”, Silver pointed out on his Twitter account. If confirmed, both candidates would end up breaking Obama’s record.

Anyway, being the most voted candidate does not mean being elected presidentBecause in the United States, what citizens vote for are their representatives in the electoral college, which is the one who ultimately elects the head of state.

In the history of the United States, there have been five candidates who reached the White House without winning the popular vote. The last of them was Trump himself in 2016, when Democrat Hillary Clinton won nearly 2.9 million more votes than Republican, but he surpassed the 270 delegates needed for the Electoral College.