MADRID, 13 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former president of the United States Donald Trump has achieved enough delegates this Tuesday to become the Republican candidate for the presidential elections next November, after winning the primaries in the states of Washington, Mississippi and Georgia.
Trump has already reached the figure of 1,228 delegates, thus exceeding the minimum of 1,215, so mathematically he is already the candidate of the Republican Party. However, his nomination will be made official during the Republican National Convention, which will be held in the city of Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin, between July 15 and 18.
Hours earlier, the US president, Joe Biden, had achieved the necessary delegates to be the Democratic candidate by reaching 2,099 delegates, since he needed 1,968 of 3,934 to win the nomination. His election will be made official in Chicago in August.
“I am honored that the broad coalition of voters who represent the rich diversity of the Democratic Party across the country have placed their faith in me once again to lead our party, and our country, at a time when the threat that (former President Donald) Trump is supposed to be older than ever,” Biden said, according to the US television network CNN.
Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, are heading for a rematch in the November presidential elections in the United States, repeating the electoral confrontation between the two experienced in the 2020 elections, in a country polarized after the surprising triumph of the American magnate in 2016.
Since then, both candidacies have been marked by the advanced age of both and, above all, by the numerous judicial processes on Trump’s shoulders. In recent months, Biden’s management of the conflict in the Gaza Strip has brought him numerous internal criticisms.
