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The Democratic candidate for the White House presidency received more than 71.6 million votes as of Thursday, according to CNN, and became the candidate with the most votes, according to the Associated Press, even though not all votes were counted. . Republican candidate Donald Trump received 68 million votes, according to CNN.
The record for votes cast in the US presidential elections was held by Barack Obama, of whom Joe Biden was vice president for two terms, from 2009 to 2017.
Obama set a record of 69,490,000 in 2008.
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These impressive figures illustrate the strong presence of Americans in the elections, of more than 160 million, according to estimates by the Electproject site.
In 2016, 137.1 million voters went to the polls.
Records have also been broken in some states.
In Iowa, where Trump won, 1,825,000 voters turned out this year, breaking the 2012 record of 1,589,951.
In Michigan, about 5.3 million voters voted, a new record.
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