Joe Biden and Donald Trump won primary elections in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state on Tuesday, confirming a possible rematch, The Guardian reported.
Both candidates received nearly all of the votes cast so far in state primaries, as well as primaries for Democrats Abroad and the Republican caucus in Hawaii. Biden also won the Northern Mariana Islands primary on Tuesday morning, securing 11 delegates.
In swing states like Georgia, where voters expressed disapproval of the government’s position on the Gaza war, some people argued that voting was a way for them to convey to the president that he would lose votes if he supported Israel’s moves. For instance, Robin Hawking, 56, a software developer from Roswell, said:
“I voted a protest vote against the war in Gaza because I think it is horrible what is happening and I’m ashamed of my country right now. I’m hoping if enough people vote for not-Biden, he’ll get the message that he’s going to lose this election unless he does a cease fire.”
At the same time, Trump ran in Georgia with no opposition, although other names still appeared on the ballot, attracting a few voters. Scott Carpenter of Roswell voted for former ambassador Nikki Haley.
I don’t like Trump. I don’t like Biden. I just wanted a different choice.
Biden won enough delegates in Georgia almost immediately to clinch the Democratic nomination, which required 1,968 votes to prevail on the first ballot.
“Four years ago, I ran for president because I believed we were in a battle for the soul of this nation.”
Trump was also on track to gain the 1,215 delegates needed to secure the Republican Party’s nomination.
