Former President Donald Trump won the GOP presidential nomination Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Trump secured more than half the total delegates allocated in the primaries, just hours after President Joe Biden won his party’s nomination.
Trump won the GOP primary in Washington, which secured him the nomination by crossing the 1,215-delegate threshold. He had previously won the Georgia and Mississippi primaries earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, Biden secured the Democratic nomination by winning Georgia's Democratic primary on Tuesday, surpassing the required 1,968 delegates needed to win his party's nomination.
Before Tuesday's contests, Biden required just 96 delegates out of the 254 total up for grabs in six states and territories while Trump needed 137 out of the 161 available delegates in the four states holding their GOP primaries.
This officially begins a nearly eight-month-long general election battle.