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The Associated Press reported that the Democratic candidate in the US presidential election, Joe Biden, is moving toward registering the highest number of votes in US history.
The agency said that Biden obtained, according to the expected results, 69512303 votes (50.1%) compared with 67069982 votes for Trump (48.3%).
This means that Biden is close to breaking the record for the voting result of the ballot, which was recorded by former president, Democrat Barack Obama, in the 2008 election, when he obtained 69498516 votes.
But channelNBCFor his part, after counting 86% of all votes, he expected Biden to get around 68.6 million votes to Trump’s 65.9, while 2.1 million votes will be cast for the remaining candidates. , adding that 23 million ballots have not yet been counted.
Yesterday, Tuesday, direct voting was carried out in the United States presidential elections after nearly 100 million people cast their early ballot by mail and voting remotely, representing a record participation in this mechanism required by the requirements of the Coronavirus pandemic.
This electoral race is considered the fiercest in several decades, coming at a time when the United States is experiencing significant internal problems due to the coronavirus pandemic, an economic crisis and a sharp increase in unemployment.
