Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won the most votes out of any candidate in history, with the former vice president notching over 70 million votes nationwide as of Wednesday afternoon.

Former President Barack Obama previously held the record for most votes cast for a presidential candidate in 2008, garnering over 69.4 million votes at the time.

Biden currently has registered 70,170,626 votes nationwide and counting, according a tally from The Associated Press .

President Trump , by comparison, has garnered 67.3 million votes nationwide and counting, according to tallies from the newswire.

The 2020 election saw a record turnout of early and mail-in voting in what has shaped up to be a high-stakes presidential race. Over 100 million votes were cast this year before election day.

The news comes as both Biden and President Trump remain locked in a tight race for the White House. On Election Night, the president made early gains in Florida, Texas, Ohio and Iowa — states that he needed to win in order to contend for the presidency.

Biden and Trump are currently competing in close races to clinch the electoral college in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Biden has moved to the lead in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, though the races in those states are still too close to call.

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl noted that the previous record holder was Biden’s former running mate Barack Obama who in 2008 with over 69.4 million votes.

As of Thursday morning, the New York Times projected 264 total electoral votes for Biden and 214 for President Trump.

With millions of votes to be counted, Donald Trump is looking to retain his seat as the united state president, but he has Joe Biden to contend with in a historic presidential election.

Votes have been counted so far with just 6 states to be completed. States that remain to be counted include Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona.

In United States, the winner of the elections is determined by electoral college vote. 270 is what is required of a presidential candidate to win before he or she would be declared the US president regardless of the popular vote.

So far with results that came in, Joe Biden is clearly winning with popular votes as well as college vote.

As at this moment, Joe Biden have amassed 264 in the electoral college vote whilst 214 of the votes went for Donald Trump.

Joe Biden needs 6 more of the college vote to win the election, and he is fast picking up steam in Michigan and Wisconsin Together that’s 26.

Nevada is 6, that would do it but slow count.

In Pennsylvania there are 1.4 million absentees left to count.

As far as I can see is everything lying on Michigan.

Trump has a huge lead in Pennsylvania and a good lead in Georgia…

Heck he can maybe take Nevada…

It is a bit tricky to say who will win but Michigan is the key.

The report coming in from CNN is that Joe Biden has taken the lead in Michigan.