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With his 73 million and 890 thousand votes, Trump is the second in the history of the presidential elections. Meanwhile, the outgoing president himself, despite the transition to the transfer of powers, has launched an appeal to his supporters to “revoke” the results of the vote. Biden: “In the United States we have free elections and the result must be respected”
It is an absolute record for an elected president of the United States set by the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ballot, who has passed the threshold of 80 million votes, with the count not yet finished. Donald Trump, with his 73 million and 890,295 votes validated so far, is second overall. In third place is Barack Obama, who in the election to the first term of 2008 obtained 69.5 million preferences. 159 million Americans voted in these presidential elections, 66.7% of the total: a turnout that had not been recorded since 1900 (THE USA SPECIAL 2020).
Biden: “Free elections, we must respect the result”
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2020 U.S. elections, here is President-elect Joe Biden’s team
Meanwhile, Biden warned in his speech to the nation: “In the United States we have free elections and the result must be respected, it must be honored, because the Americans would not accept anything else.” But as Biden speaks from his Wilmington, Donald Trump simultaneously freezes him with a phone call to his supporters in Pennsylvania during which he urges everyone to revoke the result of the vote, despite the transition for the transfer of power from one administration to another. other. Biden called for “an end to this sad season of divisions”, first to try to overcome a devastating virus: “Fighting this pandemic is a duty of all of us as Americans, we must redouble our efforts,” said the president-elect. a solemn call for national unity in the face of an unprecedented health and economic crisis. Meanwhile, Trump announced that he had pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who in 2017 pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russians.