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You are here: Home / 2020 Campaign / Biden Tops 80 Million Votes

Biden Tops 80 Million Votes

November 25, 2020 at 6:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President-elect Joe Biden won more than 80 million votes in the 2020 election, the ongoing vote count.

The Week: “Biden currently has 51 percent of the vote, versus 47.1 percent for Trump, making him also the first president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 to unseat a sitting president with more than 51 percent. (Ronald Reagan won a landslide in the Electoral College in 1980 but got only 50.7 percent.)”

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