By Aditi Sangal, Elise Hammond, Jack Forrest and Maureen Chowdhury, CNN
From CNN staff
Donald Trump will win Georgia’s Republican primary, CNN projects, taking another step toward locking down the party’s presidential nomination for the third consecutive election.
There were 59 Republican delegates at stake in the primary.
It takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination. Trump has secured at least 1,144 GOP delegates so far.
From CNN staff
President Joe Biden has earned enough delegates to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk.
Biden reached the 1,968 delegates necessary with an allocation of delegates from Georgia.
Biden will officially be nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this August.
From CNN's Donald Judd
President Joe Biden is heading to Wisconsin this week to tout $3.3 billion in funding aimed at addressing inequalities built into the nation’s infrastructure as his campaign seeks to sell voters on a second term. The visit Wednesday is the latest stop in a post-State of the Union battleground state blitz.
The funding, which includes $36 million for a Milwaukee infrastructure project aimed at improving the city’s 6th Street Corridor, is part of the administration’s Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods Grant program. The initiative seeks to “rectify the damage done by past transportation projects and drive economic growth in communities in every corner of the country," according to a fact sheet shared with CNN.
That money falls under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, two of the president’s signature legislative achievements he’s sought to highlight as he makes the case for his reelection bid.
Biden’s visit to Wisconsin — his second trip to the state in 2024 — comes as he narrowly trails his GOP rival, former President Donald Trump, in the state. In a Marquette University Law School poll conducted in January, 46% of likely voters in the state said they’d back Trump, with 44% backing Biden and 10% saying they were still undecided. Biden carried Wisconsin in 2020 by just 20,000 votes, flipping the state blue after Trump won it in 2016.
From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English
It's 7 p.m. ET and polls are closing in Georgia, which holds an open primary. This means registered voters may participate in either primary.
There are 59 delegates at stake for Republicans and 108 delegates at stake for Democrats.
Why Georgia is key: The state helped deliver Joe Biden his White House victory in 2020 and then determined Democrats would control the Senate in two runoff elections in 2021. The state then again backed the Democratic candidate for Senate in 2022, helping Democrats maintain control of the chamber. While Democrats have achieved several wins in federal elections in Georgia, GOP Gov. Brian Kemp was able to win reelection in 2022.
Georgia became a focal point of national politics after the 2020 presidential election, when Trump called on Georgia state officials, including Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to flip the state for him to win. The former president and several of his advisers have been indicted for their actions in Georgia during the 2020 election.
Atlanta and its inner suburbs are the most solidly Democratic regions of the state. The city’s outer suburbs have historically supported Republicans, but many of these affluent areas have moved towards Democrats in recent years.
From CNN's Ethan Cohen
It takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination and 1,968 of 3,934 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are expected to clinch their respective parties’ 2024 nominations tonight, although neither will officially become the nominee until the national conventions vote this summer.
As Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state vote today, 235 delegates are at stake for Democrats and 161 delegates are at stake for Republicans, with the inclusion of Hawaii's caucuses.
Here is CNN’s latest delegate estimate:
Democrat:
Biden needs 100 delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Republican:
Trump needs 126 delegates to clinch the GOP nomination.
This latest delegate estimate includes the allocation of the 11 Texas delegates to Trump. While the state party had maintained that those delegates would be awarded at a party convention later this year, today they announced they’d be based instead on the results of last week’s primary.
From CNN's Betsy Klein
President Joe Biden rallied supporters during his first visit to a field office of his reelection campaign in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Monday. He highlighted his accomplishments and criticized his predecessor as he shifts to a general election posture.
Biden laid out what he has defined as the stakes this November, pointing to his efforts to restore dignity, protect alliances, and shore up the world's democracies.
The president also highlighted his legislative wins, pointing to manufacturing job growth and infrastructure successes, but acknowledged that it’s “going to take a little time for people to begin to see the benefits.”
As polls consistently show Donald Trump narrowly leading Biden, the president said that polls don’t “matter much” at this stage because the election is “a way out.” He also added that polling has “changed a lot,” and that that it’s “not nearly as accurate” as it used to be.
From CNN's Sam Fossum
President Joe Biden released his annual budget on Monday, laying out his aspirational funding priorities in what serves as an important messaging event as he works to convince voters who are sour on the economy to give him a second term.
The $7.266 trillion budget outlined by the White House, which comes as the president hits battleground states on the campaign trail this week, builds on the policy vision he laid out in last week’s State of the Union address in which he vowed to help the middle class and tried to draw contrasts with congressional Republicans and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, whom he referred to only as “my predecessor.”
The administration’s proposal comes as a prolonged spat over funding the government plays out on Capitol Hill. The government has been operating on a stopgap measure for months, and lawmakers have passed a series of short funding bills that have kept the US government on the brink of shutting down for weeks as congressional Republicans fight among themselves about federal spending.
White House officials targeted Trump and congressional Republicans in laying out Biden’s latest budget proposal, while emphasizing Biden “has made lowering costs for hardworking families is top economic priority.”
With Biden facing persistently low ratings on his handling of the economy, despite improving economic indicators, his proposals focus on populist themes such as raising tax rates on the wealthy and large corporations and lowering the cost of prescription medications – areas where the White House thinks it can appeal to voters, even if some of those proposals as written are likely dead on arrival in a narrowly divided Congress.
Read more about Biden's budget.
From CNN's Devan Cole and Amy O'Kruk
Donald Trump is juggling a busy court and campaign schedule as he defends himself in several criminal cases while also vying for a second term in the White House.
The former president’s first criminal trial is expected to place later this month in a courtroom in New York, where he faces charges stemming from his alleged falsification of business records with the intent to conceal illegal conduct connected to his 2016 presidential campaign.
The trial start date in Trump’s classified documents case in Florida had been set for late May, but the judge overseeing that case revisited the timing of the trial during a key hearing on March 1. She has not yet set a new date for the trial.
From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English
Georgia became a focal point of national politics after the 2020 presidential election, when Donald Trump called on Georgia state officials, including Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to flip the state for him to win. The former president and several of his advisers have been indicted for their actions in Georgia during the 2020 election.
The Peach State is a relatively new battleground state in presidential politics. Take a look at how it's voted:
Black voters made up 29% of the 2020 Georgia presidential electorate. And Biden won 88% of Black voters. In 2016, the demographic made up 30% of the electorate and favored Clinton with 89% of the vote. In 2008, Obama won 98% of Black voters.
What to know about the demographic: Atlanta and its inner suburbs are the most solidly Democratic regions of the state. The city’s outer suburbs have historically supported Republicans, but many of these affluent areas have moved towards Democrats in recent years.
