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Washington: US President Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have clinched their parties' presidential nomination, setting the stage for a 2020 rematch during the November elections.

Biden, 81, won the Democratic presumptive nomination on Tuesday after easily clinching the presidential primaries in Georgia, as the number of delegates in his kitty crossed the halfway mark of 3,933 pledged delegates.

A total of 1,968 delegates were required to win the Democratic nomination. He would formally be declared the party's nomination during the convention in Chicago in August. Trump, 77, reached the 1,215 delegates necessary with an allocation of delegates from Washington state.

Trump will be nominated at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this July. (PTI)