Incumbent President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump clinched their respective parties’ nominations, setting the stage for the first election rematch in the US in nearly 70 years.
Joe Biden secured enough delegates on Tuesday to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination for the upcoming US presidential elections in November 2024.
Hours later, his rival Trump, too, clinched the Republican nomination.
As per Reuters, the last time such a rematch between a sitting President and a former one happened in 1956, when Republican President Dwight Eisenhower defeated former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, a Democrat, for the second time.
To win the Democratic nomination, a candidate must secure a minimum of 1,969 delegates out of the overall 3,979.
Biden surpassed the delegate requirement needed for the nomination on Tuesday, according to Edison Research.
As per the latest tally, he has won 2,011 delegates, when the results from the primary contest in Georgia came in.
Additional results are expected from Mississippi, Washington State, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Democrats living abroad, which may increase Biden’s delegates further.
Trump, who needed 1,215 delegates, has clinched the Republican presidential nomination by securing 1,228 delegates as of Tuesday.
Several states, including Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington State, held primaries on Tuesday, offering 161 delegates.
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