Both current U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump achieved sweeping victories across states in the party nomination elections on Tuesday, moving towards a historic competition in the general elections scheduled for November, despite declining approval ratings for both. Trump secured the support of Republican voters in ten states, including Texas and California, defeating his only rival Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who no longer has a chance to run. Trump received his third presidential nomination after a strong performance in over 15 states, as the competition was for the votes of more than a third of the Republican Party members on Super Tuesday, despite facing criminal charges.
Both Trump and Biden focused on each other as the results became clear. In a speech delivered at his resort in Florida, Trump criticized Biden’s immigration policies, calling him "the worst president in history." Biden stated, "The results of tonight's elections leave the American people with a clear choice: will we continue to move forward or let Donald Trump drag us back into the chaos, division, and darkness that characterized his presidency?"
Biden was expected to pass the Democratic primary elections despite protests against his nomination organized by activists due to his strong support for Israel, achieving unexpectedly strong results. This would mark another rematch between Trump (77 years old) and Biden (81 years old), representing the first repeated competition between candidates in U.S. presidential elections since 1956, a contest that appears to be unwanted by many Americans. Opinion polls indicated that both have low approval ratings.
