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Joe Biden has won more votes than any other presidential candidate in American history.
As the presidential race draws to a close, at least one thing is for sure: California has helped Democrat Joe Biden win more votes than any other presidential candidate in American history.
With 70,172,017 popular votes across the country through the morning of April 4, Joe Biden beat former President Barack Obama’s popular vote record in 2008: 69,498,516 votes. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, California accounts for more than a tenth of the total number of votes, with 7,721,524 for Joe Biden, not to mention the other votes that are still counted.
By many measures, the 2020 U.S. presidential election is historic. According to Michael McDonald of the US Election Project, the country is on track to see a total of more than 160 million votes, the highest turnout rate in 100 years, at 67%, the New York Times reported. .
“Voters are extremely excited about this 2020 election,” said Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of the California Institute of Public Policy. That’s what changed this year’s election, not just how people feel about President Donald Trump, but how it feels to be heard in this election, even if they support him. Mr. Donald Trump or Mr. Joe Biden ”.
More generally, Baldassare said, the number of voters affected by the year California suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic, a declining economy, wildfires, climate change, housing crisis, homelessness. home.
“I think it cannot be underestimated, it shows how people feel about the times, as well as how they feel about democracy and its importance in voting,” Baldassare said. .
The high voter turnout means that President Donald Trump’s popular vote, behind Joe Biden, could rise and could also break the popular vote record. By mid-morning on April 4, Donald Trump had received 67,390,487 popular votes, and millions of votes are still counted across the country. Among them, California represented 3,898,116 votes.
In California, almost a third of Joe Biden’s popular vote so far has come from Los Angeles County, with 2,247,254 votes. In the Bay Area, Santa Clara County took the lead with 386,292 votes as of the morning of April 1.
In the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton won 8,733,788 of the popular vote in California, while Donald Trump was behind by almost half: 4,483,810 votes.
The election is not over yet when the national vote count has not ended. So far, Joe Biden has 264 electoral votes, Donald Trump has 214 votes, according to Fox News data.
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