The Democrat currently leads Trump by more than four percentage points in the popular vote (50.8%-47.4%), nearly double Hillary Clinton’s final popular vote margin in 2016. In the Electoral College, however, Biden’s victory is much less impressive: the Democrat is on track to win the same amount of electoral votes as Trump, 306, which would rank 46th out of 59 presidential contests in percentage of electoral votes won (56.88%.) Surprising FactIn 2016, Trump won by flipping Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by a combined 77,000 votes. In 2020, thanks to a large projected win in Michigan, Biden is poised to win the three states by more than 214,000 votes combined. TangentFour years ago, Trump called his Electoral College win “massive,” even though he lost by millions of votes in the popular vote to Clinton.

Source: Forbes November 12, 2020 21:37 UTC