In most states, the candidate that wins the popular vote takes all its electoral votes, no matter how close the margin of victory. Each state is allotted electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives in Congress.
Still, Trump faces a formidable struggle to prevail in the Electoral College math that decides U.S. And Trump continues to wage legal fights to nullify the results. There will likely be recounts in several states. The incumbent, who received more votes than any Republican candidate in history, has sought to de-legitimize the outcome by claiming, without evidence, that he was cheated. Those additional states, if they hold, would turn a narrow Electoral College victory for Biden into a bruising Trump defeat. And he was clinging to a small lead in Arizona, which last voted for a Democrat nearly a quarter of a century ago. Broadcast networks called the race for the Democrat, who broke the record for the most number of votes cast for any presidential candidate in history.īiden was also the first Democrat in almost 30 years to be on the verge of winning Georgia. That disciplined strategy proved just enough to help Biden secure the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, a tally he surpassed on Saturday, after Pennsylvania put its native son over the top. The campaign and a bevy of Democratic groups prioritized their ad spending, direct voter contacts and get-out-the-vote efforts there. While polls showed that as many as seven other states had emerged as competitive contests, Biden devoted the lion’s share of his travel schedule to the Big Three down the stretch. If Biden could retake Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, he would be in a prime position to topple the incumbent. Michigan was part of a troika of Rust Belt states that Republican Donald Trump had snatched by the narrowest of margins from Democrats in 2016 to win the presidency.
Then came the ultimate star power: Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, urged voters in the 78% African American city to cast their ballots for Biden, his former vice president. REUTERS/Bing GuanĪt a socially distanced, drive-in rally on Belle Isle Park, near downtown Detroit, Motown legend Stevie Wonder performed. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, are seen near corn fields on a farm in Black Earth, Wisconsin, U.S., October 17, 2020.
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