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The gap between US presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump is currently 6 million votes, writes the Associated Press.
The number of votes cast by voters in support of the Democratic Party’s US presidential candidate Joe Biden in the past election is approaching 80 million, the Associated Press reported.
This figure is record.
The 2020 elections have already broken participation records, recalls the agency. For example, Biden has already set the record for most votes for the winning presidential candidate, and President Donald Trump has received a record number of votes for the losing candidate.
With more than 155 million votes counted and ongoing in California and New York, turnout is already 65% of all eligible voters, the highest since 1908.
According to the agency, the gap between the candidates at the moment is 6 million votes.
The main vote in the US presidential election took place on November 3. More than 10 candidates applied for the position, the main competitors were Trump and Biden. Turnout in these elections was a 120-year record – some 160 million Americans participated in them. Win In an election, a candidate must have the support of 270 voters.
November 4th CNN, ABC News and Fox News reported that Biden is getting between 273 and 290 electoral votes, guaranteeing him a victory in the election. Trump, according to CNN, obtained 213 electoral votes, according to ABC News and Fox News: 214.
Biden has already announced that he will be the next president of the United States and several world leaders congratulated him on his victory, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump refuses to admit defeat and slows the transfer of power, but on November 13 he admitted that another administration would work in the White House. On November 16, Trump cited Biden’s victory with fakes.
The winner of the election will be officially announced by the President of the United States Senate at a meeting on January 6, 2021. On January 20, the elected head of state will be sworn in.
