Regardless of how the fight for president in the USA will end in the end: Joe Biden has already broken a special record. In no US election have so many votes been cast for a candidate. In terms of absolute votes for the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden has surpassed the previous high that Barack Obama set in the 2008 election. According to surveys by the AP news agency, the New York Times and other media, Obama’s former Vice President came to more than 70 million votes. In his first election in 2008, around 69.5 million Americans voted for Obama.
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The absolute number of votes is not decisive for the race for the White House, determined by the majorities in the individual states. It is not uncommon for the winner of a presidential election to get fewer absolute votes than the losing candidate. What matters is who can get the most electorate in the states. According to the preliminary count from Wednesday evening European time, Trump has around three million fewer absolute votes than Biden. The counting of votes continues. According to AP surveys, voter turnout is likely to be significantly higher than it was four years ago. At that time, 139 million citizens took part in the election. Significantly higher voter turnouts were reported from Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas, among others. Even before the election on Tuesday, more than 100 million voters made use of various options to cast their votes early. In view of the rapid spread of the corona pandemic, one reason was probably the fear of the risk of infection when voting in person.