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Fact Check: Addressing Claims That Joe Biden’s Vote Total Is Suspicious
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Fact Check: Addressing Claims That Joe Biden’s Vote Total Is Suspicious

Trump supporters have suggested it's unlikely or impossible that the Democratic nominee got 80 million votes.
Fact Check
Fact Check: Addressing Claims That Joe Biden’s Vote Total Is Suspicious

A widely shared Instagram post is circulating a tweet from Eric Trump that questions the validity of President-elect Joe Biden’s vote total.

Biden received more than 80 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, surpassing Barack Obama’s 2008 popular vote record of 69,498,516 votes. In 2012, Obama received 62,611, 250 votes. 

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Khaya Himmelman

Khaya Himmelman is a fact checker for The Dispatch. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and Barnard College.

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