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Updated Wednesday, March 13, 2024-07:34
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President Joe Biden and his rival Donald Trump won enough delegates on Tuesday to secure their parties' nominations in the 2024 presidential race, according to US media projections.
The results of the four state elections on Tuesday were a foreseeable conclusion to the primaries of the Democratic and Republican parties, in which Biden and former President Trump
had already gotten rid of the rest of the candidates.
Biden crossed the threshold of the necessary 1,968 delegates
by winning Georgia, a pivotal state in the United States where Trump faces trial for an alleged conspiracy to alter the results of the last elections.
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For his part, Trump's victory
in Washington state helped him secure the 1,215 delegates
needed to win the Republican nomination, and propel him and his Make America Great Again movement
back
to
the
top. the presidential race.
Headed toward a rematch of their 2020 race, Biden attacked his opponent in the November elections in a statement.
"I am honored that the broad coalition of voters who represent the rich diversity of the Democratic Party across the country have once again placed their trust in me to lead our party - and our country - at a time when the threat
that represents Trump is bigger than ever
," Biden said.
Georgia, Mississippi, Washington and Hawaii - the Pacific island state where polls were due to close hours later on Tuesday - offered a combined total of 161 delegates on the Republican side, and Trump, unopposed, needed 137 of them to put the race on track. mathematically out of reach.
Trump's remarkable
sweep of nearly every state primary
to date led him to secure the nomination long before most candidates in previous campaigns.
These results guarantee an extremely long fight, almost eight months, for the White House between the two oldest men who have ever begun their presidencies in the United States.
With multiple court cases open against him, Trump insisted in a statement that the Republican Party is strong and united behind him.
"Under corrupt Joe Biden, we are a third world country, using the system of injustice to persecute his political opponent, ME!" he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
"But have no fear, we will not fail. We will take back our once great Country," he added.
Indictment
Georgia, a state in the southeast of the country bordering Florida and with which Trump has a complicated relationship, usually leans towards the Republican candidate in presidential elections.
Its inhabitants opted for him over Hillary Clinton in 2016, but turned their backs on him in 2020, voting for Biden.
The margin of votes between the two was small, less than 12,000, and Trump never conceded defeat.
The septuagenarian put pressure on state election officials, asking them in a phone call to "find" the number of votes he needed to win.
The telephone conversation was made public and Georgia authorities filed a complaint for which
Trump faces a prison sentence.
In addition, he had to go through the embarrassment of having a mugshot taken that has gone around the world.
Appointment in November
As in 2020, Georgia could also be decisive in the November elections.
The announced duel is the same:
Donald Trump, 77
, against
Joe Biden, 81
, and the gap is very narrow, according to the polls.
The two held rallies in this state on Saturday.
They confront each other on
two recurring themes
,
the age of the American president and migration.
Bolstered by a combative speech last week before Congress, Biden traveled to Atlanta to mobilize the African-American and Hispanic electorate.
Trump has intensified his attacks against migrants crossing the border with Mexico, which he considers "poisoning the blood" of the country.
True to his style, the former president also mocks Biden during his rallies, imitating his slightly stiff way of speaking (he stutters sometimes) and walking.
As for Democrats, Biden won in the Northern Mariana Islands, controlled by the United States, and in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, as well as among those residing abroad.
In addition to Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada are considered "hinge states."