Trump, Biden, sweep Super Tuesday contests as they move closer to a presidential election rematch

Former President Donald Trump and President Biden are a giant step closer on Wednesday morning to a 2024 general election rematch, after the Republican and Democratic Party frontrunners ran the table on Super Tuesday as 16 states from coast to coast held presidential nominating contests.

"They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one," Trump said in a primary night victory speech in front of a large group of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. "This has been a day that we've been waiting for."

And looking ahead to his all-but-certain general election battle with Biden, Trump highlighted that "November 5th is going to go down as the single most important day in the history of our country."

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Biden, in a statement on the Super Tuesday results, said "today, millions of voters across the country made their voices heard—showing that they are ready to fight back against Donald Trump’s extreme plan to take us backwards."

"Every generation of Americans will face a moment when it has to defend democracy. This is our fight," he emphasized.

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Longtime Republican strategist David Kochel, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, told Fox News as the Super Tuesday votes were being tabulated that "it's pretty clear both parties are ready to get to the general election."

While Trump didn't clinch the 2024 Republican nomination on Tuesday, the former president was on course to capture the vast majority of the 854 Republican delegates up for grabs, moving him significantly closer to locking up the nomination over his last remaining rival – former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

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