Former President Donald Trump won primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington on Tuesday, passing the delegate threshold of 1,215 and securing the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
The former commander-in-chief is also expected to win Tuesday’s Hawaii Republican caucuses.
Trump, 77, dominated the Republican primaries and caucuses and suspended his campaign in Vermont and the District of Columbia after last week’s disappointing Super Tuesday performance. His only loss was to former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
He started the 2024 presidential primary and caucus cycle with eight consecutive wins from January 15 to March 2.
Trump has not participated in five debates sanctioned by the Republican National Committee this term, citing a double-digit polling lead over his major opponents since the Nov. 15 presidential election. He refused to participate and dominated the Republican field without ever setting foot on the debate stage. , 2022, campaign starts.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has long been seen as the most likely Republican alternative to the 45th president, but polls in late February 2023 showed him trailing President Trump’s national approval rating by 13 points. It came close, but faltered as Republican voters rallied behind the former president after he suffered a blowback. in the first of four criminal charges.
The presumptive Republican nominee, who currently faces 91 felony charges, enters the general election phase of the presidential campaign with the support of nearly 80% of Republican voters.
His first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in Manhattan on March 25th on 34 charges related to the alleged hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, and Mr. It is likely that he will be forced to adjust his campaign schedule.
President Trump also faces impending state and federal trials in Georgia and Washington, D.C., related to allegations of interference in the 2020 presidential election, and a federal trial in Florida over his handling of classified documents after taking office. It is scheduled.
President Trump is hoping to become the first former commander-in-chief since Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms in the White House, and is scheduled to face President Biden in November.
The 2020 general election rematch will be the first since 1956, when President Dwight Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson in a rematch of the 1952 presidential election.
According to a recent survey, New York Times and Siena College It found that Trump would easily win a rematch with Biden, 48% to 43%, benefiting from increased support from black and Hispanic voters.
The poll also showed that Trump retained 97% of his 2020 campaign’s core supporters, while winning 10% of former Biden voters.
Some polls also show Trump beating Biden in many key battleground states.
Registered voters in Arizona (49%-43%), Michigan (46%-44%), Nevada (48%-42%), North Carolina (50%-41%), and Pennsylvania (49%-) Mr. Trump is ahead of Mr. Biden among the respondents. Wisconsin (46% to 42%), according to a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult swing state voter poll released late last month.
The latest polls in Georgia, which Biden won in 2020, also show Trump with an advantage over the incumbent.
The poll shows Trump leading Biden in the Peach State, 46% to 42%, down from a 6-point lead about a month ago. Emerson College Poll/The Hill It was released on Tuesday.
Mr. Biden, 81, has fallen to record low approval ratings with key Democratic voters, including blacks, Hispanics and Muslims, amid concerns over the economy, border security and handling of the Israeli-Hamas war. has lost significant support among .
The oldest president to have served in the Oval Office is also reeling from a scathing Justice Department report that cast doubt on his mental acuity.
Special Counsel Robert Hur said in a report released last month that the decision not to indict Biden in connection with keeping classified documents after becoming vice president could result in jurors seeing him as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” I defended it.
Biden also won Democratic primaries in Georgia, Mississippi, Washington state and the Northern Mariana Islands on Tuesday, reaching the 1,968 delegate threshold needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
The incumbent embarrassingly lost to previously unknown candidate Jason Palmer in the American Samoa Democratic Caucus on Super Tuesday (Biden’s only loss this cycle).
