It's now official.
Joe Biden and his rival Donald Trump won enough delegates on Tuesday to ensure they are their party's candidates in November's US presidential election, according to US media estimates.
They will be officially named this summer.
The results of the Democratic and Republican primaries in the states of Georgia, Mississippi and Washington were virtually a foregone conclusion, with Biden and Trump eliminating competition in the nomination race.
Outgoing President Joe Biden crossed the threshold of 1,968 necessary delegates by winning the Democratic primary in Georgia (south).
On the side of Donald Trump, 77, his victory in Washington State (northwest) allowed him to cross the threshold of 1,215 delegates necessary to win the nomination of the Republican Party.
If the early reinauguration of an outgoing president is the norm, the victory of the former Republican president in almost all Republican primaries to date has allowed him to secure the nomination much earlier than most candidates. opposition during previous campaigns.
Joe Biden, 81, has never faced serious opposition and Donald Trump's last competitor, Nikki Haley, threw in the towel on March 6.
Biden, “the worst president in history” for Trump
Quoted by Associated Press, Joe Biden castigated his future rival, who, according to him “is waging a campaign of resentment, revenge and retribution that threatens the very idea of America”.
The Republican billionaire did no less.
While celebrating in a video posted on social media, “a great day of victory,” Trump said: “Now we have to get back to work because we have the worst president in the history of our country.
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The road to the presidential election will not be a long, quiet river.
Donald Trump is the target of four criminal proceedings, including on March 25 in New York for a case of payments to a former pornographic film star, Stormy Daniels.
The 77-year-old candidate is seeking through multiple appeals to go to trial as late as possible, in any case after the November 5 election.
Joe Biden is already the oldest American president, at 81 years old.
His blunders and memory problems regularly call into question his ability to govern.
Immigration at the heart of the campaign
Donald Trump is campaigning by directly opposing Joe Biden's immigration policies, accusing his successor of having transformed the southern border of the United States into a sieve.
But it was also at Trump's request that an immigration law, negotiated for months by members of both parties, was finally rejected by Republicans in Congress.
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The issue has become particularly sensitive in the state of Georgia, which voted on Tuesday for the primaries, and where the murder of an American student by an illegal Venezuelan was highlighted by the Republican camp.
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Donald Trump has made it the symbol of Joe Biden's immigration policy, whom he accuses of being too lax in the face of the numerous arrivals at the border with Mexico.
In 2020, Georgia, a traditionally Republican state, surprisingly voted Democratic, contributing decisively to Joe Biden's victory.
Donald Trump had put pressure on local electoral officials, asking them to “find” the number of votes necessary to close his gap.
The former president was indicted in this case and made his mugshot, taken in the capital Atlanta, a campaign article.
See you on November 5
Georgia risks being decisive again in November, the gap between Donald Trump and Joe Biden being very tight there, according to polls.
The two men both campaigned there on Saturday.
In the wake of a particularly pugnacious speech to Congress on Thursday, Joe Biden went to Atlanta to try to mobilize the African-American and Hispanic electorate.
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Donald Trump, for his part, performed an imitation of a stuttering Joe Biden, a way of mocking, as he regularly does, the mental and physical form which he considers to be failing in his competitor.
Other potentially decisive states in November, what Americans call “swing states,” include Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada.
During the almost eight months that separate them from the November 5 election, the two candidates will now be able to devote all their energy to their face-to-face meeting.