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After winning the Republican nomination, Donald Trump will face Joe Biden again

With his victory in the Republican primary, Donald Trump has completed a remarkable political comeback driven by resentment and revenge. This marks the official beginning of what is expected to be the most expensive and drawn-out general election in recent memory.
According to the Associated Press, the former president surpassed the required number of delegates on Tuesday night to secure the GOP nomination.

This gives Trump exclusive control over building up the Republican Party’s campaign machinery and focusing only on a rematch with Vice President Joe Biden.
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Trump has pledged, if elected, to eliminate the so-called “deep state” of federal officials, clamp down on illegal immigration, implement trade protectionist measures, and reduce the US’s global influence.
Following his attempts to rig the 2020 election, which resulted in the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, Trump departed the administration as a national outcast. After being impeached twice, he was the first American president to do so. He is facing 91 felony charges in four criminal prosecutions since leaving office related to claims he tried to overturn his defeat to Biden, handled secret data improperly, and paid an adult film actress.
In November 2022, Republican President Trump declared his intention to seek a third term as president in response to the Republicans’ lackluster showing in the midterm elections, a development that some party members attributed to him.
Over a dozen Republican candidates, including previous supporters like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, and Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence, entered the race to challenge him.
However, the criminal accusations helped the former president gain support from Republican voters as his rivals conducted unsuccessful campaigns. Haley, Trump’s lone surviving Republican opponent, canceled her campaign after last week’s Super Tuesday games. Trump continues to lead the GOP, as seen by his dominance in the 2024 primary, where he won all but two of the contests.
After winning the Democratic primaries in Georgia on Tuesday, Joe Biden collected enough delegates to guarantee his party’s candidacy. His run of Super Tuesday victories had already forced his main Democratic rival, Dean Phillips, out of the campaign. The president then gave a passionate State of the Union speech on Thursday with the goal of allaying voter worries about his age and setting the stage for his upcoming rematch with Trump.
Trump’s victory, which his campaign aimed to achieve by the middle of March, demonstrates how his team was able to use legal difficulties that would have terminated the career of any other politician as a rallying cry, inspiring followers who believed his baseless accusations of political persecution.
He will need to channel that energy toward replenishing campaign funds that pale in comparison to Biden’s. The Republican National Committee’s requirements for Trump’s campaign to combine its efforts with the national party have finally been fulfilled.
This enables Trump to enter into joint fundraising agreements with the RNC and raise larger sums of money. After pressing outgoing chair Ronna McDaniel to step down, Trump moved on Friday to take control of the party apparatus, appointing three supporters, including his daughter-in-law, to top positions.
It is anticipated that the 2024 election will be among the most costly ever. There has never been a campaign in modern American history with candidates with such low popularity ratings and a prolonged public profile. They will have to spend billions of dollars on voter outreach in order to do that.
In head-to-head contests in seven swing states, Trump leads Biden, per a survey conducted last month by Bloomberg News and Morning Consult.
Despite doubts about his own mental health, the former president has attacked Biden’s immigration policy and continuously disparaged him due to his age and memory. Trump has been pressuring Biden to accept the debate,, despite the fact that he has missed five of the matches against his Republican primary opponents.
Trump is leading the polls, but he still has a long way to go before he can retake the White House. According to a recent Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll, six out of ten swing-state voters believe he is too risky, and a prior study revealed that most would not vote for him if he is found guilty of a crime.
The former president’s divisive language has turned off leaders in foreign capitals and on Wall Street.
According to Trump, his attraction to black people has led to an upsurge in his criminal charges. When it comes to NATO members that don’t fulfill the alliance’s military expenditure standards, he threatened to let Russia do “whatever they hell they want.” Additionally, he has supported a stock market meltdown during Biden’s administration.
In addition, the former president has to win over more suburban and female voters—a difficult goal given the recent Supreme Court decision that struck down the right to abortion nationally after Trump’s appointment of three conservative justices to the court.

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