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Biden supporters at anti-Trump protest: First new US presidential election in almost 70 years
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US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have already won enough delegates in the primaries to seal their respective nominations for the November presidential election, according to data provider Edison Research.
With the first primary election results from the US state of Georgia, Biden exceeded the required number of 1,968 voters, ahead of the results from Mississippi, Washington, the Northern Mariana Islands and Democrats living abroad, said the data company Edison Research.
A few hours later, Trump also reached the 1,215 voters required for the Republican presidential nomination.
The votes in Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington involved a total of 161 electors, Trump needed 139. The formal nomination takes place in the summer at the respective party conferences.
The election in November is heading towards the first new US presidential election in almost 70 years.
"Voters must now decide the future of this country: Will we stand up and defend our democracy or will we allow others to destroy it? Will we restore the right to choose and protect our freedoms or will we allow that extremists are taking them from us?" Biden said after the results were announced.
Trump said in a video posted on social media that there was no time to celebrate.
Instead, he is focused on beating Biden, whom he described as the "worst" president in US history.
"We will close our borders. We will do things no one has seen before. And we will make our country's economy the best in the world," Trump announced.
The last remake of a presidential election was in 1956, when Republican President Dwight Eisenhower defeated former Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, a Democrat, for a second time.
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