Posted: Dec 07, 2016 1:48 pm
Hillary Clinton gets 2.7 million lead in the popular vote
The Democrat could end up with more votes than Obama in 2012
Hillary Clinton has 2.7 million more votes than Donald Trump, despite losing the presidential election, and the number is expected to rise.
Ms Clinton is on track to get more votes than president Barack Obama did in 2012. He won 65.9 million, and she is only about 400,000 votes behind him.
The votes are being tallied by David Wasserman for the Cook Political Report. Votes are still streaming in from states like California, New York and Washington due to late counting of mail-in and absentee ballots.
Mr Trump swept to victory thanks to the centuries-old electoral college system, which distributes electoral votes around states and the candidate who wins in each state gets all of those votes.
Larger states - like Pennsylvania with 20 electoral college votes and Michigan with 16 votes - went to Mr Trump.
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