Donald Trump wins Republican nomination for third straight presidential election

Donald Trump won another slate of Republican primaries on Tuesday, pushing him over the threshold of delegates needed to secure the GOP presidential nomination and setting the stage fora 2020 election rematch this November.

The former president won Republican primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington and the Republican caucuses in Hawaii on Tuesday night, taking him over the threshold of 1,215 delegates needed to secure the Republican party nomination.

He took to Truth Social to call it “my great honor” to represent his party before lashing out at his Democratic rival – who he described as “the Worst, Most Incompetent, Corrupt, and Destructive President in the History of the United States”.

Mr Biden had easily secured the Democratic nomination for president earlier on Tuesday after winning his party’s Georgia primary. He then went on to win the primaries in Mississippi and Washington.

Mr Trump’s path towards the nomination became obstacle-free with the departure of Nikki Haley from the race last week, following her final disappointing showing on Super Tuesday. Despite campaigning in states including Virginia, Massachusetts, Utah and Texas, the former governor and UN ambassador won just a single state among the more than a dozen in play last week — Vermont, coincidentally the state representing the smallest prize of the evening.

She dropped out of the race a day later, thanking her supporters and declining to issue an explicit endorsement of her rival. Mr Trump, she said, would have to “earn” the votes of both Republicans and independents who oppose his nomination by the Republican Party.

He appears to be making few overtures to those voters as he presses on towards the GOP convention with few signs of ending his