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Donald Trump has secured the Republican presidential nomination and is planning a rematch with incumbent President Joe Biden, who secured the Democratic nomination on Tuesday night, CNN reports.
Biden and Trump will win the party's presidential primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, CNN reports. Also on Tuesday, Hawaii Republicans will hold their caucuses, while voting in the Democratic Party Abroad party's official organization for Americans living abroad ends. Biden is projected to be the winner of the Democratic primary in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, which was held early Tuesday.
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“Today is a call to action,” Biden said in a voiceover. “With your voice, your power, your vote, come November we will vote in record numbers, and it is possible, and we have the power to do it.” Yes. Are you ready? Are you ready to defend democracy? Are you ready to defend our freedoms? Are you ready to win this election?”
The Trump campaign posted a video of the former president on X late Tuesday, shortly after the president secured the nomination.
“Today was a great day of victory. Last week we had a very special event, Super Tuesday, but now that we have the worst president in the history of this country, we have to get back to work. His name Joe Biden, sometimes crookedly called Joe Biden, must be defeated,” President Trump said in the video.
The shortened campaign follows last week's Super Tuesday, when Biden and Trump won nationally, with both parties winning the majority of delegates needed to be chosen as their respective party's presumptive nominees. It's on the brink. The long-anticipated but little-anticipated rematch between the two men is widely expected to mirror the 2020 campaign, with President Trump this time seeking to overturn his 2020 election loss. He will be running under 91 felony charges related to the alleged plot. He played a leading role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He illegally removed classified documents from the White House. He concealed hush money payments to adult film stars ahead of the 2016 election.
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Biden now has a record of accomplishments and missteps that matter to voters, but so far he's run a similar campaign to 2020, against Trump's authoritarian behavior and middling economy. are raising concerns. Unlike Trump, the president will not face a serious, well-funded primary challenge after his only rival in the election, Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, resigned last week to endorse Biden. There wasn't.
(Author Marianne Williamson, who lifted her campaign suspension late last month, remains in the race, as does venture capitalist Jason Palmer, who defeated Biden in the American Samoa caucuses last week.)
Biden's main opposition comes not from any candidate, but from more general intraparty misgivings about his age and progressives' support for the administration's support for Israel during its months-long war with Hamas in Gaza. It comes from anger. The president has also come under intense scrutiny following the release of a report by special counsel Robert Hur that concluded that Biden mishandled and inappropriately disclosed classified information after leaving office as vice president. However, Heo, who testified at the Capitol on Tuesday, said he did not believe there was enough evidence to charge Biden with a crime, and no charges were filed.
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On the Republican side, Mr. Trump has been considered the outrageous favorite despite competition from Republican challengers, including governors, senators, right-wing provocateurs and his own former Vice President Mike Pence. .
The last to succumb was former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who withdrew from the Republican race last week after consecutive Super Tuesday losses, but did not endorse Trump along the way. Haley said the former president needs to “earn the votes of people within his party and outside of his party who don't support him.” Like Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump will need to win over the skeptics of his own base to match his past levels of support.
Although there is still little drama left over the outcome, Georgia's primary will be a test of strength for both candidates ahead of their expected November showdown.
In 2020, Biden won the state by less than 12,000 votes, making him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992. Trump's loss sparked a series of alleged efforts by him and his allies to overturn the election results. Those efforts are now wrapped up in a broad conspiracy indictment scheduled to be tried in Fulton County, where much of Atlanta is located.
Both candidates spent part of the weekend in the Peach State and led competing rallies about 90 miles apart on Saturday.
“My life has taught me to embrace a future of freedom and democracy,” Biden said at a rally in Atlanta. “But we all know that Donald Trump sees a different America, an American story of resentment, revenge and retribution. It's not me, it's not you.”
Trump, who is visiting Rome, Georgia, criticized Biden for the “angry, dark, hateful rant” he delivered in the president's State of the Union address on Thursday. President Trump also continued to criticize Democrats' response to the southern border and the economy.
Biden has been touring battleground states after the State of the Union address, first visiting Pennsylvania on Friday, then Georgia and New Hampshire on Monday. President Trump is scheduled to head to Dayton, Ohio, this weekend to host a rally for businessman Bernie Moreno, his favored candidate in the Republican primary against Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. The Ohio election is among those seen as critical to Democrats' hopes of taking control of the Senate.
CNN’s DJ Judd and Rashard Rose contributed to this article.
