Joe Biden Secures Democratic Nomination After Georgia Primary Win; Donald Trump May Soon Clinch GOP Nod
12.03.2024 - 23:39
/ deadline.com
Joe Biden secured enough delegates this evening to win the Democratic nomination.
Biden was projected to win the Georgia primary, crossing the 1,968 delegates needed.
Donald Trump, the last remaining candidate in the Republican race, is expected to clinch his party’s nomination later this evening.
The Biden vs. Trump rematch has been clear for some time, given the polls.
Biden faced nominal opposition from Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), who have not managed to perform in the double digits in the primary contests so far. After Super Tuesday, Phillips dropped out and endorsed Biden.
Trump trounced Nikki Haley in Super Tuesday contests last week; she exited the race the next day.
Whatever suspense there was in the primary season, it largely was over by New Hampshire, when Haley placed second. She remained in the race but was handily defeated in the rest of the states, even though the share of her vote was significant enough to pose a potential problem for Trump in unifying his party.
Biden’s campaign quickly got out a fundraising pitch after he clinched the Democratic nomination.
“Millions of voters across the country have made their voices heard in these early primaries, and I could not be more grateful for your support. Truly. It means the world to me,” Biden said in the message.
“This election is the difference between those who want to pull America back to the past, and those who want to move America into the future.”
In the 2020 cycle, Biden formally clinched the nomination in June, after a more competitive primary in which he and Bernie Sanders were the remaining major candidates in the race.
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