US President Joe Biden (right) and former Donald Trump (European News Agency)
President Joe Biden won a sufficient number of delegate votes yesterday, Tuesday, to secure the Democratic Party nomination for him as a confrontation with former President Donald Trump approaches, making it the first time in 70 years that a second confrontation has occurred in the US presidential elections.
Edison Research said that Biden (81 years old) exceeded the number of votes required to win the nomination, which is 1968, as the results of the primary elections in Georgia began to appear, before the expected results from Mississippi, Washington State, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Democrats living abroad.
Trump is expected to win the Republican nomination at a later time, as 4 states hold elections, including Georgia, where Trump faces criminal charges due to his efforts to overturn the state’s results in the 2020 ballot.
The outcome is essentially predetermined after Trump's last rival for the Republican nomination, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, ended her presidential campaign following Trump's dominant performance last week when he won 14 of 15 statewide elections.
It has become almost certain that the presidential elections scheduled for next November 5 will now be a repeat of the 2020 race in which Biden defeated his predecessor, Trump.
Source: Agencies