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Former President Donald Trump celebrated winning enough delegates Tuesday to secure the Republican presidential nomination.
“It’s your favorite president speaking to you on a really great day of victory,” Mr. Trump said in a video posted on his campaign’s X account. “One week ago, we had something called Super Tuesday and it was indeed super, because we won at numbers at nobody has ever seen before, records in virtually every state.”
“And tonight, likewise, but this one got us over the top,” he said. “The Republican National Committee has just declared us the official nominee.”
The RNC cannot declare a nominee without a nominating convention, but Mr. Trump’s victories in GOP primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state on Tuesday gave him more than the 1,215 delegates needed to become the presumptive nominee.
“We now have to go on to victory because our country’s in serious trouble,” he said, expressing concerns about the border and the economy and asserting that the U.S. has “no respect on the world stage.”
After the races were called Tuesday, Mr. Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate.
“It is my great honor to be representing the Republican Party as its Presidential Nominee. Our Party is UNITED and STRONG, and fully understands that we are running against the Worst, Most Incompetent, Corrupt, and Destructive President in the History of the United States,” he wrote.
“But fear not, we will not fail, we will take back our once great Country, put AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE,” he posted. “November 5th will go down as the most important day in the history of our Country! GOD BLESS AMERICA.”
President Biden also clinched enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee Tuesday after he passed the 1,968-delegate threshold.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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