Presidential revenge: Biden and Trump pick up nomination mandates
13 March 2024 12:20
Current US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have won their respective parties’ nominations, marking the beginning of the first runoff in the US presidential election in almost 70 years. This was reported by Reuters, according to Kommersant Ukrainian 
Biden won the Democratic Party primary in Georgia. According to the decision-making headquarters, this gives him enough delegates to be nominated for the Democratic presidential nomination and almost guarantees that he will meet with former President Trump again in November 2024.
Biden needed 1,968 delegates to win the nomination, a number that Edison Research said was reached on Tuesday night as results from the Georgia primary began to come in, ahead of expected results from Mississippi, Washington state, the Northern Mariana Islands and Democrats living abroad.
“Voters now face a choice about 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 extremists to take them away?”
– Biden commented on the results.
At the same time, the Republican primaries were held in four states: Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington. A few hours later, Trump gained the 1,215 delegates needed to be nominated for the Republican presidential nomination.
After Nikki Haley dropped out of the race amid her Super Tuesday defeats, Trump was only 137 delegates short of the party’s convention, which will soon officially nominate a presidential candidate. The former president received the necessary votes after his victory in Washington.
In a video posted on social media, Trump said there was no time to celebrate and instead focused on defeating Biden, whom he called the “worst” president in US history.
Presidential revenge
The last repeat presidential rematch took place in 1956, when Republican President Dwight Eisenhower defeated former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, a Democrat, for the second time.
This year, voters have shown little enthusiasm for a repeat of the hard-fought 2020 election, with Reuters/Ipsos polls showing both Biden and Trump unpopular with most voters.
Trump’s numerous criminal charges – he faces 91 crimes in four separate indictments – could hurt his standing among educated voters, whose support he has historically struggled to win.
on 25 March in New York, he will become the first former US president to stand trial in a criminal case where he is accused of falsifying business records to hide secret cash payments to a porn star.
The most serious case against him is believed to be a federal indictment in Washington, D.C., accusing him of conspiring to cancel the 2020 election. But the case has been put on hold after the US Supreme Court agreed to hear Trump’s presidential immunity challenge, and it is unclear whether the trial can take place before Election Day.
Biden is haunted by the view of most voters that he is too old to serve a second four-year term, although allies believe his fiery speech could counter this view.
The ongoing crisis at the US-Mexico border, where an influx of migrants has overwhelmed the system, is another of Biden’s weaknesses. He tried to shift the blame to Trump after the former president called on congressional Republicans to scrap a bipartisan border security bill that would have strengthened enforcement.
US elections
The US presidential election will be held on 5 November 2024. This will be the 60th presidential election in America.
In the regular election, voters will elect electoral college, which will elect a new US president and vice president in 41 days, in December 2024.
Elections to both houses of Congress will also be held: The House of Representatives and one third of the Senate.
