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The Democratic leader already is the most voted candidate for president in US history and surpasses in almost a million votes to Brack Obama, the second of the list, with 71,784,435 of votes.
With the electoral race still running, this year’s Democratic Party candidate, Joe Biden, has exceeded 70 million votes. His rival, Donald Trump, ranks at the top of the Republican Party, but is below Obama and Biden on the full list.
Until now, Barack Obama was at the top of the list, having earned more than 69 million in 2008, which he did not manage to overcome in his 2012 candidacy, however, has risen in number of votes compared to those he obtained in 2016 when he advanced George W. Bush by just over 900 votes. Both the rise of Biden and that of Trump are directly related to the high level of participation that has occurred this year.
The electoral counting clock slowed down from 01:00 local time on Wednesday (06:00 GMT), when there were a handful of key states to know, seven territories on which hangs the future of a country alerted by the threat of protests and disturbances by supporters of one or another candidate.
The US has never been so divided in the face of an election, and the destruction of the economic and social fabric caused by the pandemic has exacerbated differences and fueled polarization, fueled by Trump himself and amplified by social media.
By a handful of states
All eyes are now on the hinge states of Pennsylvania, with 20 delegates to the Electoral College; Michigan, with 16; Wisconsin, with 10; North Carolina, with 15; Georgia, with 16; and Nevada, with 6; to which are added the 3 delegates at stake from Alaska and 1 from Maine.
The Electoral College is a body made up of 538 delegates distributed according to the population of each of the states. The winning candidate in each of those states, even if it is by a single vote, takes all his delegates; Y the candidate who reaches 270 wins the elections.
If you look at the map of the country in broad strokes, Biden has won the entire West Coast, in addition to much of the Atlantic coast of the country, as well as the key state of Arizona, apart from Colorado, New Mexico, Illinois and Minnesota.
The map begins to turn red, the color of the Republicans, in areas of the central and southern US, such as Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota, among others; But above all the hinge states of Ohio, Texas and Florida have given Trump wings.
So, for the moment, it seems that the president holds the onslaught of Biden, who took most of the polls for granted, which has led last night to a kind of sensation of what was already experienced in 2016, when the polls ventured the victory of the then Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, who ended up losing.
Sensations already lived
During the campaign, the president had already stirred the ghost of possible electoral fraud by voting by mail, which has been fundamental in these elections due to the pandemic.
The last time the Supreme Court had to resolve a presidential election was in 2000, due to recount problems in Florida, and finally Republican George W. Bush was victorious once Democrat Al Gore had to throw in the towel afterwards. of being denied further scrutiny.
Trump’s tone contrasted with Biden’s, who asked his followers from Wilmington (Delaware) to “keep the faith” and wait patiently for the results.
And after Trump spoke, there was silence on election night. The protests that had filled the streets near the White House hours earlier had already dissolved, and there were no incidents in other parts of the country.
It remains to be seen what follows the silence with the arrival of the day: For now there are already protests of the “ShutdownDC” campaign (closing the District of Columbia) in the US capital.
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