Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have clinched their respective parties’ 2024 nominations.
A statement from Vice President Kamala Harris after scoring the nomination said: “From the start, the President and I never took this re-nomination process for granted.
“We have campaigned in earnest because we know doing so is an important step towards earning reelection and will help us mobilize the voters we need in November.
“With his State of the Union speech last week, President Biden passionately presented our alternative vision.
“We will reduce costs for families, make housing more affordable, and raise the minimum wage. We will restore Roe, protect voting rights, and finally address our gun violence epidemic.
“The American people overwhelmingly support this agenda over Donald Trump’s extreme ideas, and that will propel our campaign in the months ahead.”
A campaign video posted on Biden’s social media shows the president urging voters to “defend democracy.”
“This is the time to choose, so let us choose the truth. Let us choose America,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Trump acknowledged that the 2020 rematch seemed preordained—saying “I’m his only opponent other than life, life itself.”
Trump has been indicted on 91 counts across four criminal cases in multiple jurisdictions, adding financial and scheduling constraints to an already jam-packed general election season.
In a statement posted to his Truth Social platform late Tuesday, Trump said it was his “great honor to be representing the Republican Party as its Presidential Nominee.”
He also blasted his opponent as the “Worst, Most Incompetent, Corrupt, and Destructive President in the History of the United States.
“We are now, under Crooked Joe Biden, a Third World Nation, which uses the Injustice System to go after his political opponent, ME!” he added.
“But fear not, we will not fail, we will take back our once great Country, put AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. November 5th will go down as the most important day in the history of our Country! GOD BLESS AMERICA.”
