Washington DC: In Tuesday's Democratic primary for the 2024 election, US President Joe Biden secured enough delegates to lock up the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, his predecessor is expected to secure the Republican nomination by the end of the day. Thus, the Biden-Trump rematch has cleared its final qualifying threshold.
Biden reached the Democratic Party's 1,968-delegate threshold by winning the primaries in Georgia, a critical victory for his 2020 general election win. Trump also won the Republican Party primaries in Georgia, but he will need to await results from the primaries held on Tuesday in Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington to fix the nomination.
Neither of the candidates met with a real challenge for their party nominations, with the Republican primaries remaining open until March 5 when Nikki Haley, the former Ambassador to the UN, suspended her campaign leaving Trump as the only one in the field.
In the election system typical to the US, aspirants to the White House need to win enough delegates -- every state primary or caucus grants them a certain number of delegates -- who will officially appoint their nominees at their party conventions later in the year. But the Biden versus Trump presidential election gets technically underway on Tuesday night.
Biden cleared the 1,968 delegates on Tuesday and Trump will have his 1,215 by the end of the day.
"Just a few minutes ago, this team helped me clinch the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the US," Biden said in a statement.
Source: IANS