Biden and Trump nominated, heading for another election showdown

Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president, CNN projects, setting up a rematch with Joe Biden, the incumbent president who secured the Democratic nomination earlier on March 12 night.

Biden and Trump will win their parties’ presidential primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, while Trump will also win the Republican caucuses in Hawaii, CNN projects. 

In a post to the social media platform X, Biden celebrated his status as his party’s presumptive nominee, calling it “a time of choosing” in a new campaign video.

Trump’s campaign posted a video on X of the former president later Tuesday, shortly after he clinched the nomination.

“This was a great day of victory. Last week was something very special – Super Tuesday –  but now we have to get back to work because we have the worst president in the history of the country. His name is Joe Biden, sometimes referred to as crooked Joe Biden, and he must be defeated,” Trump says in the video.

Both candidates spent parts of their weekend in the Peach State, where they led competing rallies – about 60 miles apart – on Saturday.

“My lifetime has taught me to embrace the future of freedom and democracy,” Biden said at a rally in Atlanta. “But we all know Donald Trump sees a different America, an American story of resentment, revenge and retribution. That’s not me, that’s not you.”

Trump, in his visit to Rome, Georgia, slammed Biden over what he described as an “angry, dark, hate-filled rant” of a State of the Union speech, which the president gave Thursday. Trump also kept up his criticism over the Democrats’ handling of the southern border and the economy.