United States President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have both passed the delegate thresholds to clinch their parties’ nominations for the election in November.
Reports gathered that four states, one American territory, and Democrats living abroad held their primaries on Tuesday, as US voters also face a rematch of the 2020 presidential election in eight months’ time.
The 81-year-old president on Tuesday evening said that he was honoured voters had backed his re-election bid “in a moment when the threat Trump poses is greater than ever.
Citing positive economic trends, he asserted that the United State was “in the middle of a comeback” but faced challenges to its future as a democracy, as well as from those seeking to pass abortion restrictions and cut social programmes.
“I believe that the American people will choose to keep us moving into the future,” he said in a statement from his campaign.
Incumbency gave Mr Biden a natural advantage and he faced no serious challengers for the Democratic nomination.
Despite persistent concerns from voters that his age limits his ability to perform the duties of the presidency, the party apparatus rallied around him.
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