Elections in the United States: Joe Biden and Donald Trump are already preparing to focus on the head-to-head in November

This Tuesday’s primaries will see the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and former president Donald Trump They were mathematically on track to become the candidates of their respective parties. now aim his entire arsenal to win the biggest prize in November’s presidential elections, in an electrifying election campaign that will keep the country and the world in suspense.

Trump will win primaries in Mississippi, Hawaii and Washington state and, with the sum of the delegates already collected in the previous elections, he reaches the magic figure of 1,215 voters with which he is practically considered the republican candidate.

The tycoon arrived without competition in these latest primaries since the last rival in his path, his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, dropped out of the race after last week’s Super Tuesday.

In the Democratic field, Georgia, Mississippi and Washington will vote and Biden, who has never had any major rivals in the race, will win and He will thus obtain the 1,968 delegates necessary to guarantee his candidacy.

This way, Trump and Biden already have their prize in hand long before the formal voting process ends on June 4. The formal blessing of both candidates will take place at the party conventions, the Republican one on July 15 in Milwaukee and the Democratic one on August 19 in Chicago.

The end of the primaries is good news for both, because now Trump and Biden will devote all their time, effort and money focus on the final stretch against each otherin a re-edition of the 2020 campaign that ended with the Democrat’s victory and with the Republican denouncing non-existent fraud and resisting leaving the White House.

The duel risks being fierce because today the polls are practically tied, with a slight advantage in the key states for Trump, who faces 91 charges in court and that he also needs his energy to face the courts.

But there’s still a long way to go until November, and any small variable can swing the election one way or the other. Trump and Biden are already chasing Haley voters, more moderate Republicans who generally don’t want another term from the GOP. ButWhat will be the overall strategy of both campaigns to add as many votes as possible?

What’s coming

“Trump is expected to focus primarily on immigration and, in particular, the US-Mexico border. Immigration concerns today occupy the main focus of interest among Republican voters. Secondly, Trump will focus on the economy and rising prices, which he will blame on Biden,” he said Clarion Joshua Blank, political research expert at the University of Texas at Austin.

As for Biden’s campaign, Blank anticipates that “the attention will be divided, first and foremost, on his record and his bipartisan achievements, but almost equally He will try to present it as a personal battle between him and Trump, and not a referendum on his leadership. Biden already won head-to-head against Trump in 2020 and probably feels he can do it again.”

For Todd L. Belt, professor and director of the Masters in Political Management at George Washington University, “Trump will attempt a typical “referendum” election on what Biden accomplished as president. On the other hand, Biden will try to tell voters that they have two alternatives: return to the chaos of the Trump administration or continue with the normalcy of the Biden administration. The president will also try to show how Trump is a threat to democracy“, She said Clarion.

For Blank, the main challenges facing the two campaigns and candidates, It is “the advanced age of both (81 Biden and 77 Trump) in a race that is repeated and does not excite”. Furthermore, he believes that rather than mobilizing the bases of each party, “this election will focus attention on how many Republicans and Democrats prefer to stay home and who that decision will ultimately benefit and guarantee the presidency.”

For Belt, the biggest challenges Biden will face are the economy, immigration, an issue of great concern, and crime. “Even though the economy in the United States is doing well, people have not yet accepted the inflation-driven price increases of previous years as normal,” she points out.

For Biden, the expert underlines, another important issue will be that of abortion, a right limited by the conservative Supreme Court and a provision that Trump secretly claims because he has appointed 3 of the most right-wing judges on the court. For the president, the issue is fundamental because it traditionally draws women and young voters to the polls and has proven effective in helping Democrats in 2022 and 2023.