Joe Biden and Donald Trump reached, this Tuesday (12), the number of delegates needed to run in the elections for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively. As a result, this year, the two will rerun the race for the 2020 White House.
As a result, on Tuesday Biden won the caucuses in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and the Northern Mariana Islands. With the victories, Biden overcame concerns about his leadership within his own party.
According to the Associated Press, the current president won 2,015 delegates. 1,968 were needed for nomination.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump also won the states of Georgia and Mississippi, in addition to Washington. With this, he reached a total of 1,228 delegates, exceeding the 1,215 needed.
It is worth remembering that Biden and Trump were the big winners on Super Tuesday (5), the day in which more than 15 US states went to the polls in their respective parties’ primaries.
For the Republican Party, Trump beat his opponent Nikki Haley “by a landslide”, who won only in the state of Vermont. Haley announced her withdrawal from the pre-candidacy on Wednesday morning (6).
On the Democratic Party’s side, Biden had a quiet Super Tuesday and only lost in the independent territory of the Samoa Islands.
