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Fact check: Joe Biden legally won presidential election

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This article is by Ella Lee in USA Today:

Biden won popular, electoral votes

While both candidates received a record-breaking number of votes, Biden ultimately beat Trump by over 7 million votes, amassing 81 million votes to Trump’s 74 million. 

To win, Biden’s campaign built on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 gains in Arizona and Georgia — states teetering between red and blue — all while growing its voting base in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, dubbed the “blue wall.”

Fact check: Trump lost the 2020 presidential election

On Election Day, people cast ballots for their preferred candidate’s electors, chosen prior to the election by political parties or independent candidates. Those individuals, collectively the Electoral College, then cast votes for president and vice president, usually representing the choice their state’s voters made. The process is laid out in the 12th Amendment of the Constitution. 

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