President-elect Joe Biden’s total tally of votes is
approaching 80 million votes in an election which has seen the highest voting
since the 1908 presidential election.

If Biden comes to take oath of President, he would be entering
the office with highest number of votes ever, similarly the high voting also
means that President Donald Trump would be the highest vote getting loser.   

About 155 million votes have been counted so far, and
counting at California and New York is still ongoing. As of now, the turnout
stands at 65% of all eligible voters, the highest since 1908, according to data
from The Associated Press and the U.S. Elections Project.

Biden’s lead of over six million votes comes amid Trump’s
allegations of an election fraud. Trump, since the election results were out in
the early days of November, has been trying to move heaven and earth to sway the
mandate in his favour, even if his efforts may seem a bit desperate by many.

“It’s just a lot of noise going on, because Donald Trump is
a bull who carries his own china shop with him,” Douglas Brinkley, a
presidential historian at Rice University, told AP. “Once the noise recedes,
it’s going to be clear that Biden won a very convincing victory.”

Biden currently has an Electoral College lead of 290-232,
according to the press agency.

These votes do not include electors from Georgia, where
Biden leads Trump by 0.3 percentage points as officials conduct a hand tally.

The AP has not called the race, but if Biden’s lead holds he
will win the Electoral College on 306-232 vote — the identical margin Trump won
in 2016. Back then Trump described it as a “landslide”, it said.

The margin between Trump and his opponent in the previous
election was of 77,000 votes across key election states. This time the lead is
narrower for Biden with 45,000 vote margin across Arizona, Georgia, and
Wisconsin.

The lead, though narrow, doesn’t warrant a dispute, experts
say. According of one of them, this has been the trend since ever except Ronald
Reagan’s second term or Obama’s first term wins.

The difference of votes is too huge to be diluted in a
recount, like it did in case of George W. Bush in 2000, when the difference of
537 votes went in his favour upon recount in Florida.