Donald Trump and Joe Biden assured of winning their party's nomination

After a new day of primary elections, Tuesday March 12, notably in Georgia, Joe Biden and Donald Trump obtained the sufficient number of delegates to win their party's nomination: the two candidates will therefore face each other in November 2024 for the American presidential election.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are now assured of winning their party's nomination for the US presidential election next November.

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The poster for the presidential duel was no longer in doubt, the two candidates having

eliminated the competition

in the race for the nomination.

It is now confirmed mathematically, reports our correspondent in Miami,

David Thomson

.

After this new day of Republican and Democratic primaries,

Joe Biden

and

Donald Trump

each obtain the threshold of delegates necessary to be nominated as candidates by their party for the November election during the conventions which will take place this summer.

The presidential campaign between Joe Bien and Donald Trump can now begin in earnest, even if a majority of Americans do not want this return match.

Washington, Mississippi and Hawaii voted on Tuesday, as well as the very strategic Georgia, one of these famous key states decisive for winning the American presidential election.

A swing state won by Donald Trump in 2016 but by Joe Biden in 2020 down to the wire, with a little less than 12,000 votes in advance.

These 12,000 votes that Donald Trump had asked local officials to find for him to reverse the result in a phone call now famous in the

United States

and which led to him being prosecuted by the Atlanta prosecutor for having tried to confiscate the election in 2020.

Almost eight months of campaign

Incumbent President Joe Biden crossed the threshold of 1,968 delegates needed by winning the Georgia Democratic primary.

As for Donald Trump, 77, his victory in Washington State allowed him to cross the threshold of 1,215 delegates necessary to win the Republican Party nomination.

The two men are therefore preparing to replay the 2020 match. “

I am honored that the broad coalition of voters representing the rich diversity of the Democratic Party across the country have placed their faith in me once again to lead the party – and the country – at a time when the threat posed by Trump is greater than ever

,” the Democrat said in a statement.

If the early reinauguration of an outgoing president is the norm, the victory of the former Republican president in almost all Republican primaries to date has allowed him to secure the nomination much earlier than most candidates. opposition during previous campaigns.

Also read: United States: Biden-Trump, candidates too old to excite America?

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