President Biden hit the jackpot in Nevada, with a third consecutive victory at the polls in the race for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
The Associated Press on Tuesday projected that the president would win Nevada's Democratic primary, with the news service making its announcement just over 90 minutes after polls closed in the Battle Born State at 7 p.m. local time.
The projection was not a surprise, as Biden was expected to defeat his Democratic primary rival, Marianne Williamson, the best-selling author and spiritual advisor who is running for the White House for the second time in a row.
Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, another Democratic primary rival who faces an uphill road to winning the nomination, was not on the ballot in Nevada because he announced his candidacy in late October, after the state's filing deadline. .
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A voting sign outside a polling station in Las Vegas on February 6, 2024, as Nevada holds its presidential primary. (Fox News – Monica Oroz)
Thirty-six pledged delegates were at stake in Tuesday's primary.
“I want to thank the voters of Nevada for sending Kamala Harris and me to the White House four years ago, and for putting us one step further down that same path again tonight,” the president said in a statement after projecting his victory.
Biden stressed to his supporters that “we must organize, mobilize and vote. Because one day, when we look back, we will be able to say that when American democracy was a risk, we saved it, together.”
Biden's victory in Nevada comes three days after a massive victory in the South Carolina Democratic primary, where he won more than 96% of the vote against Williamson and Phillips.
And it comes two weeks after he won 64% of the vote as a write-in candidate in New Hampshire's unsanctioned Democratic presidential primary.
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Biden's second-place finish against Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the Nevada primary four years ago helped the then-former vice president bounce back after a dismal fourth- and fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries. Biden's landslide victory in the next contest, the South Carolina primary, propelled him toward the Democratic nomination and, ultimately, the White House.
President Joe Biden gestures to the audience after speaking at a campaign event in North Las Vegas, Nevada, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
The president campaigned in the Las Vegas area on Sunday and Monday, holding a rally, a fundraiser and meeting with leaders and rank-and-file members of the powerful Culinary Union, which reached a tentative deal with several casinos to avoid a strike. that just ended. days before the Super Bowl is held in the city.
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Biden will almost certainly easily win a reappointment and will likely face a rematch in the November general election with former President Donald Trump, who is the favorite for the Republican nomination.
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