ELECTION 2024| PRESIDENTIAL RACE
The presidential primary calendar officially came to an end with recent victories for Democratic President Joe Biden in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Both Biden and Republican Donald Trump already clinched their party nominations in March, setting up a historic general election rematch between the current and former presidents.
Many Americans did not want a 2020 rematch, according to public opinion polls, and both Biden and Trump are broadly unpopular. But the two lost just three contests total out of more than a hundred, a reflection of how the Democratic and Republican bases stood by Biden and Trump despite both facing significant political challenges — and in Trump’s case, four criminal indictments, one of which led to felony convictions.
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Both Biden and Trump faced protest votes. While those did not come close to changing the primary results, they offer insight into the November general election rematch and are already shaping both campaigns’ strategies against each other.
Easy wins for the Democratic incumbent
