Joe Biden becomes the most voted president in the history of the United States with almost 74 million votes | Results of the 2020 US elections

Joe Biden, the new president-elect of the United States after the confirmation of the results this Saturday, becomes the most voted candidate in a North American election. His candidacy, along with that of his vice president Kamala Harris, has garnered around 75 million supporters at the polls in an appointment with a record turnout. A figure that will still increase, since the count has not yet finished. The Democratic candidacy has been the most voted in the history of the United States and has broken the record that Barack Obama imposed in 2008, when he obtained 69.5 million votes, precisely with Biden as ‘number 2’. The Biden-Harris tandem has won more than 75 million votes. These results are marked by the broad participation in these elections, with about 160 million citizens and 65% of the North American electoral roll having participated. In addition, the victory of the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States and his running mate Harris, has marked several milestones in the politics of the United States, Biden will assume the presidency of the United States on January 20 at the age of 78, which will make him the person He was the oldest to occupy the Oval Office, above his rival in these elections, Donald Trump, who came to the White House in 2017 at the age of 70, which was already a milestone in his day. Before a president had been so many years old, since the record is held by Ronald Reagan, who left office at 77 years, 11 months and 14 days, Biden is the fifteenth vice president who manages to ascend to the main position of the North American country year, an unprecedented milestone since the victory of Republican George HW Bush in 1989, after eight years at the helm of Ronald Reagan.It will be the sixth to do so in an election, not because of the resignation or death of the president. Biden’s victory leaves Trump as president of a single term and adds the New York tycoon to a list that is not updated from the also Republican George HW Bush , who only served from 1989 to 1993. Ends a consecutive streak of four double-term presidents, unprecedented in the history of the United States. The Democratic candidate will be the second Catholic to become president of the United States; The previous one was John F. Kennedy in 1960. He will also be the second president born in Pennsylvania, after James Buchanan, who held the position between 1857 and 1861. He will instead be the first born or raised in the state of Delaware to arrive at the Firm Oval.Harris has not been the first woman to be part of the candidacy of a great party – Geraldine A. Ferraro and Sarah Palin aspired to the Vice Presidency and Hillary Clinton to the Presidency – but she was the first to achieve electoral victory and break the “ glass ceiling. ” Nor has there ever been a woman of color and the daughter of immigrants – an Indian mother and a Jamaican father – so close to power in the United States, one step away from the Presidency. Biden’s advanced age, which would complicate a second term, makes the position of vice president especially relevant this time.