President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images)The 2020 election was an event for the record books for more reasons than one: President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received more votes than any other presidential ticket in U.S.
history.According to The Cook Political Report, a non-partisan organization, the Biden-Harris ticket surpassed 80 million votes.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, received more than 73 million votes.Both Biden and Trump superseded the previous record set when Barack Obama received nearly 70 million votes in 2008.The Biden-Harris ticket was historic for several reasons.