Biden and Trump face each other in primaries in four states with their candidacies already secured

Washington, Apr 2 (EFE).- The states of New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Connecticut hold their primary elections this Tuesday when the country’s president, Joe Biden, and former president Donald Trump have already almost secured the presidential candidacies of Democrats and Republicans, respectively.

Trump, 77, has won 1,686 delegates to the Republican National Convention in the primaries and caucuses prior to the Republican National Convention, which exceeded the 1,215 needed to triumph in the race, from which all seven competitors have already withdrawn.

Likewise, President Biden, 81, has already surpassed the count of 1,968 delegates he needed for the Democratic National Convention and has obtained 2,610 in a competition from which three other candidates have defected.

The vote in New York will award 268 Democratic and 91 Republican delegates, while Rhode Island will give 26 and 19, and Wisconsin 82 and 41, respectively.

In today’s primary in Connecticut, 60 Democratic and 28 Republican delegates are at stake.

In Delaware, where 16 Republican delegates are up for grabs, the party’s primary was canceled after former South Carolina governor and Trump’s latest challenger, Nikki Haley, withdrew from the race.

On the Democratic side in Delaware there were 19 delegates at stake, but the primary was suspended and all of them went to Biden since he is also now the only candidate.

Voters in Connecticut and Rhode Island have the option to mark as “uncommitted” if they wish to register their protest vote against Biden or former President Trump (2017-2021). In Wisconsin, a similar option is presented as “unstructured delegation.”

The Republican National Convention will meet from July 15 to 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Democratic National Convention will meet from August 19 to 22 in Chicago, Illinois.

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