Biden and Trump head toward rematch after securing party nominations for US presidential election
Kyiv • UNN
Biden and Trump are gaining enough delegates to become the nominee for a rematch in the 2024 presidential election.
US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have secured enough delegates to become their parties' presumptive presidential nominees, setting up a rematch in November's general election, CNN reports, writes UNN.
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Biden reportedly reached the "magic" number by gaining delegates from Georgia, a battleground state that was crucial to his victory in the 2020 general election. And Trump secured the Republican Party's nomination after winning the primary in Washington state.
As indicated, Democrat Biden won 2,099 delegates (the president needed 1,968 to become the presumptive Democratic nominee).
Republican Trump: gained 1,247 delegates (the former president needed at least 1,215 delegates to win the Republican Party nomination).
Neither Trump nor Biden will officially become candidates until the national party conventions vote this summer.
Biden hopes for revenge: the US president said in a statement that he was honored to be his party's presumptive nominee. He warned that "freedom and democracy" were at risk and that Trump posed a threat to America amid his focus on the general election. "Voters now have a choice about the future of our country," Biden said.
Trump criticized his opponent in a video posted on social media after becoming the presumptive Republican nominee and said that now "we have to get to work to beat Joe Biden." He emphasized the importance of the election in November, telling his supporters that "this vote will be the most important vote you will ever cast.
But, the publication points out, there's a long road ahead: the 2024 race will be the longest general election campaign in half a century.