The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in states including Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, but has gained little to no success in court. Trump has maintained that the election was 'stolen' from him by Democrats due to widespread voter fraud, despite a lack of evidence to back his claims. Though Trump has trailed with 232 electoral votes, he has refused to concede the race. On November 13, Biden totaled 290 electoral votes after the race was called by some media outlets in Arizona, giving him 20 more electoral votes than needed to defeat Trump. Last week, multiple news outlets called the race for Biden as he was projected to win the key swing states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. This election has already been determined to have had the highest voter turnout percentage in 120 years. The 2020 election saw record-breaking voting-turnout numbers, as roughly two thirds of all eligible American voters cast their ballots. Recently, Biden broke his own record with 79 million votes and counting, giving him the most votes of any presidential candidate in history. Trump has received 47.2 percent of the popular vote, compared to President-elect Joe Biden's 51 percent. That number has set the record for the most votes ever received by a sitting president, surpassing Obama's 65,915,795 popular votes in his 2012 incumbent victory against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. history.Īs of Thursday morning, Trump has received a total of 73,559,030 votes and counting, according to The New York Times.

President Donald Trump has so far received 73.6 million popular votes in the 2020 election, surpassing the previous record set by President Barack Obama by more than 7 million, giving him the most votes of any sitting president in U.S.

Presidential popular vote totals