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.
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 Biden won the Democratic caucuses in Guam and the Virgin Islands on Saturday.
He received 467 out of 469 votes cast in the Virgin Islands caucuses, earning him all seven delegates at stake. Self-help author Marianne Williamson and "Uncommitted" each received one vote, according to local Democratic Party officials. Earlier in the day, the president also swept all seven delegates available in Guam.
Voters there did not cast ball.
