President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clinched their parties’ presidential nominations Tuesday night, setting up a rematch in November.
Biden and Trump won their parties’ presidential primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, while Trump also won the Republican caucuses in Hawaii.
In a post to the social media platform X, Biden celebrated his status as his party’s presumptive nominee, calling it “a time of choosing” in a new campaign video.
“Today’s a day, a call to action,” Biden says in a voiceover. “With your voice, with your power, with your vote – come November, we will vote in record numbers, and can do it, we have the power to do it. Are you ready? Are you ready to defend democracy? Are you ready to protect our freedom? Are you ready to win this election?”
Trump’s campaign posted a video on X of the former president later Tuesday, shortly after he clinched the nomination.
“This was a great day of victory. Last week was something very special – Super Tuesday – but now we have to get back to work because we have the worst president in the history of country. His name is Joe Biden, sometimes referred to as crooked Joe Biden, and he must be defeated,” Trump says in the video.
The shorter slate of elections follows last week’s Super Tuesday, when Biden and Trump dominated across the map, putting both on the cusp of winning a majority of the delegates needed to be crowned their parties’ presumptive nominees. Their rematch – long anticipated, but hardly clamored for – is broadly expected to mirror the 2020 campaign, though Trump will run this time under the specter of 91 felony charges.
