Biden is on track to win the majority of votes, with self-help author Marianne Williamson far behind him
US President Joe Biden won Nevada's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday night, bringing him one step closer to securing his party's nomination for a potential GOP rematch against Donald Trump.
Rep. Dean Phillips, a Minnesota Democrat, entered the race too late to appear on the Nevada ballot, leaving self-help author Marianne Williamson as Biden's best-known rival.
Biden is on track to win the most votes, with Williamson finishing well behind him, as he did in previous races, in New Hampshire and South Carolina. NBC News reported.
“I want to thank the voters of Nevada for sending Kamala Harris and me to the White House four years ago, and for taking us one step further down the same path again tonight. We must organize, mobilize and vote. Because one day, “When “Look back, we can say that when American democracy was a risk, we saved it together,” Biden said in a statement.
Nevada Democrats held a primary for the first time in 2024, following new rules from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The state's next challenge is Feb. 27 in Michigan, a newcomer to the pre-Super Tuesday window of early primaries and a swing state in the general election.
While the Biden campaign made a show of competing in last Saturday's South Carolina primary and is working to shore up support among restive groups in Michigan, such as Muslim voters, it put little effort into Nevada.
Even though polls show Biden weaker against Trump now than at any point in 2020, he has faced only token opposition to his reappointment, and virtually every elected Democrat in the country has rallied behind him, depriving Phillips or Williamson of a lot of oxygen or political momentum.
With the Democratic nomination seemingly in hand, Biden's re-election campaign has been focused on Trump since it began.
Biden, who kept his name off the ballot because he violated party rules, won the unsanctioned Jan. 23 contest as a write-in candidate, receiving 64% of the vote.
In South Carolina, Biden won 96% of the vote.
