After a new day of primary elections, Tuesday March 12, notably in Georgia, Joe Biden and Donald Trump obtained the number of delegates sufficient to win their party’s nomination: the two candidates will therefore face each other in November 2024 for the American presidential election.
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The poster for the presidential duel was no longer in doubt, the two candidates having eliminated the competition in the nomination race. 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 now famous phone call to the UNITED STATES and which led to him being prosecuted by the Atlanta prosecutor for trying 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. bigger than ever “, declared the Democrat in a press release.
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.
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