President Biden and former president donald trump continue their unimpeded march towards a rematch in the 2024 presidential elections.
Biden and Trump secured enough delegates during the March 12 primary contests to win their party nominations at conventions this summer.
But there are still more states to vote on. Next up: Alaska and Wyoming, which will hold Democratic primaries on April 13, followed by Puerto Rico’s Republican primaries on April 21.
Here are some of the key dates and results from this year’s political calendar.
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January 15: Republican Party convention in Iowa
Trump won a decisive victory, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis edged out former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for second place. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy finished a distant fourth, suspended his campaign and supported Trump.
January 23: New Hampshire primary
trump defeated Haley, his only remaining challenger in the GOP race after DeSantis dropped out two days before the primary. Biden won New Hampshire despite not being on the ballot due to a disagreement between the Granite State and the Democratic National Committee, which decided to make South Carolina’s Feb. 3 Democratic primary his first formal contest.
February 3: South Carolina Democratic primary
Facing nominal opposition in a state where he has long been a favorite among Democrats, Biden won easily, winning more than 96% of the vote, with self-help author Marianne Williamson and Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips dividing the rest.
February 6: Nevada primaries
Haley suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Republican presidential primary in Nevada on February 6, receiving fewer votes than the “none of these candidates” option. It was a race in which Trump did not compete and the state party tried to cancel it. However, a combination of intense support for Trump and distaste for Haley among Republican voters in the state combined to cause her an unusual humiliation. Biden handily won the Nevada Democratic primary.
February 8: Political convention in Nevada and the US Virgin Islands
trump Easily won the Nevada caucusesas expected. Haley wasn’t on the ballot, but Nevada Republicans have made it clear they want Trump to be their candidate against Biden in the November general election. The former president also won the Virgin Islands Republican conventions, picking up all four available delegates from the US territory in a race in which Haley had actually campaigned.
February 13: Long Island special election
Democrat Tom Suozzi won the special election in New York’s Third Congressional District, defeating Republican Mazi Pilip in the race to replace George Santos, who was expelled from Congress in December following a scathing report from the House Ethics Committee that concluded Santos “blatantly stole his campaign.”
February 24: South Carolina Republican primary
Despite Haley serving as the state’s governor for six years, Trump was declared the winner in South Carolina at 7 p.m. ET, just as polls closed in the state.
February 27: Michigan primaries
Trump and Biden easily won their respective primaries in a state crucial to each of their presidential election victories. But Biden faced a considerable “uncommitted” protest vote led by Muslim and Arab Americans who were disillusioned with their response to Israel’s bombing of Gaza. With about 98% of the votes counted, more than 100,000 Michigan Democrats (or 13%) voted “uncommitted.”
March 5: Super Tuesday
Trump and Biden won almost all of this year’s Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses. Haley won the Vermont Republican primary, denying Trump a clean victory; Biden lost to unknown politician Jason Palmer at the sparsely attended Democratic conventions in American Samoa.
March 12: Trump and Biden win nominations
Both Trump and Biden won the presidential nomination within their respective parties in the last round of state primaries. The former president won 1,241 of the 1,215 needed to claim a majority. Biden has 2,107 pledged delegates out of the 1,968 needed for the nomination.
March 19: Primaries in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio
Biden and Trump won uncontested primaries in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kanas and Ohio, adding hundreds of delegates to their respective tallies and continuing their unimpeded march to the summer conventions, where they will formally accept their parties’ nominations.
There were, however, intriguing voting contests as well. In Ohio, Bernie Moreno — a Trump-backed candidate who faced questions about an online profile that sought casual sexual encounters with men — won the GOP Senate primary and will face the longtime Democratic senator. Sherrod Brown in November.
Conventions
July 15-18: Republican National Convention
The event will be held in Milwaukee, which hosted the 2020 Democratic National Convention during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 19-22: Democratic National Convention
The event will be held in Chicago, which has hosted 11 previous Democratic conventions – most recently in 1996, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were nominated for re-election. It was also the site of the disastrous 1968 Democratic convention, which was held after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and marked by massive anti-war protests that turned violent.
Debates
September 16: 1st presidential debate
O Commission on Presidential Debates scheduled three presidential debates, the first on September 16 at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, as well as a vice presidential debate in late September.
September 25: Vice Presidential Debate
The only sanctioned vice presidential debate will take place at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, on September 25.
October 1: 2nd presidential debate
The second presidential debate will take place at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, on October 1.
October 9: 3rd presidential debate
The third and final presidential debate will take place at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on October 9, less than a month away from Election Day.
November 5: Election Day
Barring a surprise, it will be Trump x Biden II on November 5th. The last time a presidential rematch took place was in 1956, when Republican President Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson, the same Democrat he had defeated in 1952.
