The 2024 US elections will be a virtual repeat of the 2020 campaign, when Biden defeated Trump.
Former US President Donald Trump and the current occupant of the White House, Joe Biden, won the Republican and Democratic primaries, American media reports. So, they are about to be officially nominated for President of the United States by their parties. The 2024 election will be a virtual repeat of the 2020 campaign.
Obvious pairing
Biden’s nomination for the US presidential nomination from the Democratic Party is a formality, because the current head of the country who decides to run for a second term, as a rule, does not face serious competition.
For Republicans, the battle for the nomination is quite serious, even though Trump has a big advantage at the very beginning of the campaign and his closest competitor, former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, has almost no real chance of winning in the nomination.
On Tuesday, Republican primaries were held in four states: Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington.
After Haley dropped out of the race amid Super Tuesday losses, Trump fell just 137 delegates short of the party conference that is about to formally nominate a presidential candidate.
According to ABC News, the former president received the necessary votes after his victory in Washington.
Historical cases
The last time in history that one of the two major American parties nominated a candidate for president who had already lost the election once occurred in 1968. The Republicans then nominated Richard Nixon for president, who lost to John Kennedy in election in 1960.
And the situation where the same two candidates met again in a presidential election last happened in the 1950s.
According to Pew Research, the new battle between Trump and Biden is the seventh such case in history. Moreover, the result of the first four “rematches” differed from the original, and in the last two it was the same as the first vote.
The US presidential election will take place on November 5, 2024.
Fight for the youth
Biden is 81 years old, Trump is 77. US voters are increasingly worried about whether they should choose candidates at that age.
The special counsel’s decision not to file charges against Biden in the case of improper storage of classified documents also added fuel to the fire. The special counsel said he decided not to file criminal charges after a 15-month investigation because Biden was cooperative and difficult to convict, describing him as a “well-intentioned, old man with a poor memory.”
Biden, in an angry denial, said there was nothing wrong with his “recollection.” Overcome by emotion in a speech at the White House, she blasted her lawyer’s suggestion that she had forgotten when her son Beau died and said allegations that she deliberately withheld classified material were “simply false.”
“How the hell did he dare bring that up? To be honest, when they asked me that question, I thought it was none of their business,” said Biden, commenting on the mention of his son’s death during the questioning.
“My memory is fine,” the president said, adding that he was glad the case was being investigated by a special prosecutor.
At the same time, Biden recently described his conversation with Angela Merkel in 2021 as having occurred with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Biden’s campaign has decided to launch a new television ad poking fun at his age.
The ad, which begins with her smiling admission that she is “not a boy,” comes as the 81-year-old White House leader tries to calm voters’ concerns about her age.
“It’s no secret. But here’s the thing — I know how to get things done for the American people,” Biden said in his ad.
At the end of the one-minute video, which also included footage of his future Republican opponent and former President Donald Trump trying to turn over the folder, Biden returned to the issue of age with a staged entrance.
“Look, I’m so young, lively and beautiful – why am I doing this?” – he joked.
Biden’s campaign said the ad will appear during March Madness, the games of the men’s college basketball season, on ESPN and TNT, as well as on Comedy Central and FX.
Source: korrespondent
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