Stage set for Biden and Trump rematch as both clinch presidential nomination: Election 2024 updates

Donald Trump reacts after securing Republican presidential nomination

The Republican party has nominated Donald Trump as its presidential candidate, setting the stage for a rematch with Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential elections.

Mr Trump won four state primary victories on Tuesday which appeared to push him over the threshold of delegates needed to secure the GOP presidential nomination.

Mr Biden also secured the Democratic nomination for president after winning the Georgia primary, before winning the primary in Mississippi.

Meanwhile, transcripts of Mr Biden’s two-day interview with Department of Justice investigators reveal that he had a much more accurate memory of past events than described in the report released by Special Counsel Robert Hur.

The transcripts of the October 2023 interviews take up 268 pages and show a more detailed picture of Mr Biden’s capabilities than was written by Mr Hur, the former Trump administration appointee who Attorney General Merrick Garland brought on as a special counsel to investigate how classified documents ended up at Mr Biden’s former Washington, DC office and his Wilmington, Delaware home.

This comes as Mr Hur testified before the House Judiciary Committee today after releasing the scathing and much-criticised report.

Russian president Vladimir Putin said Donald Trump, when he was president, scolded him for “sympathising” with Joe Biden.

“In the last year of his work as president, Mr Trump, today’s presidential candidate, reproached me for sympathising with Biden,” Mr Putin said in an interview with Russian state media published on Wednesday.

“He asked me in one of the conversations: do you want Sleepy Joe to win?” Mr Putin said.

“And then, to my surprise, they began to