By STEVE WILSON | THE CENTER SQUARE
Former President Donald Trump picked up 59 delegates after winning Georgia Tuesday, and with another victory in Mississippi and an expected win in Washington state, he will exceed the necessary delegate count to become the presumptive Republican nominee.
President Joe Biden also won enough delegates Tuesday to secure the Democratic nomination, setting up a likely rematch of 2020 between the two. Nominations are not official until the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this summer.Trump was the last remaining GOP candidate and won with 84.4% of preliminary results in Georgia, with 75% of votes counted. He defeated a group of challengers that included former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who both suspended their campaigns in recent weeks.
The former president needed 1,215 delegates to become the nominee, and victories in Georgia and Mississippi plus a projected win in Washington put him at 1,228, according to several national media outlets.
Biden won Georgia with a 95.3% victory in the Democratic primary with 72% reporting.
“Four years ago, Georgia Democrats put President Biden and Vice President Harris in the White House, and tonight, we showed we’re ready to send them back for four more years,” said U.S. Rep. and Democratic Party of Georgia chairwoman Nikema Williams in a news release. “There is a clear choice before voters in November: President Biden, who is fighting for progress every day for Georgia families; or Donald Trump, who has nothing to offer except hate, division, and a personal vendetta.
“The road to the White House runs directly through the Peach State. Georgians made our voices heard at the ballot box – we delivered tonight for President Biden, and we’ll deliver again in November.”
Georgia will hold its primaries for Congressional seats on May 14, so the presidential races took center stage on Tuesday.
It’s time for people to accept reality. Like it or not, the voters have chosen.
It’s gonna be Trump, for better and worse. He’s not who I wanted either, but it’s who we got.
So it’s time for the never Trumpers to decide: hold your nose and vote Trump, or cling to your outrage and essentially vote Biden.
Cue butt hurt preening and faux outrage.
Agree. I will plug my nose and vote. I’m not a never Trumper though. He was not my first choice when this all began in 2016, then he did a pretty good job, despite his slightly narcissistic loud and abrasive personality and all that was against him. I am definitely a ‘never biden’ though and feel he is, if not the worst president in history, then one of them. One thing occurred to me a while back – compare families. The Trump family are close knit, well adjusted super successful kids. The Biden family clearly over the top dysfunctional – all of them, nor have any of them really had private sector employment. Just an observation but I believe one that is telling.
And in the meantime, the Georgia “case” is falling apart like a wet paper sack.
That is what happens when you build a RICO case on 98% legal actions.
It’ll be a body slam followed by a full KO in the first minute of Round 1. But don’t stop there, Mr. Trump. Help load him up onto a stretcher and head him home to Scranton for final arrangements.
At least the cadaver president will not need to be embalmed — that process has already been long underway.
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