The US election counting is not over yet, however, Joe Biden has already won more votes than any presidential candidate in US history.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden has won more votes than any other presidential candidate in US history. At last count, the Democratic presidential candidate had picked up more than 72 million votes, surpassing the 69.5 million collected by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008.
Biden, in a tight electoral vote fight to the White House against incumbent President Donald Trump, is 2.7 million votes ahead of the Republican leader in the popular vote. His lead is growing as counting picks pace in key battleground states.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 47th vice president of the United States in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the United States Senator for Delaware from 1973 to 2009. He is the Democratic presidential nominee for the 2020 election, running against the incumbent, Donald Trump.