BIDEN AND TRUMP CLINCH NOMINATIONS

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 Tuesday 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. Voting wrapped up in the primary for Democrats Abroad, the official arm of the Democratic Party for Americans living overseas. Biden is the projected winner of the Democratic primary in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, held earlier Tuesday.

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.

“Today’s a day, a call to action,” Biden says in a voiceover. “With your voice, with your power, with your vote – come November, we will vote in record numbers, and can do it, we have the power to do it. Are you ready? Are you ready to defend democracy? Are you ready to protect our freedom? Are you ready to win this election?”

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 country. His name is Joe Biden, sometimes referred to as crooked Joe Biden, and he must be defeated,” Trump says in the video.