Joe Biden became the most voted candidate in US election history | the Chronicle

The Democratic candidate for the White House, Joe biden, has already accumulated more votes than he obtained Barack obama in the 2008 election, in which he secured his first electoral victory, surpassing the record set by who was the first black president of the United States.

According to the Fox News account, Biden So far, he has garnered over 69.77 million votes, compared to the 69.49 Obama won in his first election., in which the republican imposed himself John mccain, which totaled 59.94 million.

In the opinion of Nate Silver, director of the electoral portal Five Thirty Eight, it is highly likely that Biden will eventually get “about 80 million” if the total participation is around 155 million.

Some 101 million people voted by mail or in advance, quoted the Europa Press news agency.

At the same time Asset, which, according to the Fox News network, has 67.16 million votes, could end with “between 73 and 75 million”, Silver wrote on his Twitter, predicting that they would both end up breaking 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 citizens’ suffrage goes to their representatives in the electoral college, which is the one that ultimately elects the president.

In the history of the United States, five candidates have come to power without winning the popular vote.

The last of them was Trump himself.

In 2016, the Democrat Hillary Clinton he got nearly 2.9 million more votes than Republican Trump, but he exceeded the 270 delegates needed for the Electoral College.