Former President Donald Trump won Republican presidential primaries in five states on Tuesday.
The Associated Press predicted that the former president will win in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio.
Trump campaigned in Ohio on Saturday for businessman Bernie Moreno, whom the former president endorsed in the state’s tough GOP Senate race.
Trump’s triumphs came a week after securing the 2024 Republican presidential nomination by sweeping last week’s contests.
Hours before Trump became the GOP’s probable presidential nominee, President Biden secured the Democratic nomination to be his party’s 2024 prospective presidential contender.
This summer’s Democratic and Republican national nominating conventions will formally establish Biden and Trump as the main party nominees.
The 2024 rematch, which surveys show most Americans are less than enthusiastic about, is now firmly in the general election phase.
The general election campaign began sooner than at any point in the previous 20 years, when then-Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts secured the 2004 Democratic nomination in early March and faced Republican President George W. Bush.
The November battle between Biden and Trump marks the first rematch in the presidential election since 1956, when Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated former Democratic Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois in their second meeting.
Trump is seeking the presidency for the third time in a row. Former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Trump’s last contender for the nomination, pulled out the day after Super Tuesday in early March, after he won 14 of 15 GOP races.