Former President Donald Trump won overwhelmingly in the Republican presidential primaries in five states on Tuesday.
The Associated Press predicted the former president would win Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio.
Trump campaigned in Ohio on Saturday on behalf of businessman Bernie Moreno, whom the former president endorsed in the highly contested Buckeye state’s Republican Senate primary.
Trump’s victory comes a week after he secured the 2024 Republican presidential nomination with a landslide victory in last week’s election.
Position on the 2024 presidential nomination race
Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the Buckeye Values PAC rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. (Kamil Krzazinski/AFP via Getty Images)
Hours before Trump became the Republican presidential nominee, President Biden won the Democratic nomination and was set to become the party’s 2024 presidential nominee.
Biden and Trump will officially become the major party nominees at the Democratic and Republican national nominating conventions this summer.
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A rematch in 2024 (which polls show most Americans have zero enthusiasm for) is now firmly in the general election stage.
President Joe Biden speaks at the Washoe Democratic Party office on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 in Reno, Nevada. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin) (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
The general election campaign began earlier than at any point in the last 20 years. John Kerry of Massachusetts secured the 2004 Democratic nomination in early March, running against Republican President George W. Bush.
The showdown between Biden and Trump in November will be the first in a White House race since 1956, when Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated former Democratic Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson in their second match. It will be a rematch.
Trump is running for the White House three times in a row. Trump’s final rival for the nomination, former United Nations ambassador and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, quit the race the day after Super Tuesday in early March after overwhelmingly defeating 14 of 15 Republican candidates. Withdrew.
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