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Who won the 2020 U.S. presidential election?

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Joe Biden, the Democrat, won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, defeating the incumbent president, Republican Donald Trump. He won 306 votes in the Electoral College to Trump’s 232. Biden also won the popular vote with more than 81 million votes to Trump’s 71.2 million votes. Still, Trump challenged the election results and called for Vice Pres.Mike Pence to not certify the election on January 6, 2021. On that date Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.