Welp, I expected Trump to clinch tonight, but that Biden would have to wait a week.
But Tuesday morning Green Papers updated their site to note that both Delaware and Florida had canceled their Democratic primaries and given all their delegates to Biden.
That was enough to put Biden close enough to clinch tonight too.
Since my update Sunday for the Republicans and my update Thursday for the Democrats, there have been results in a bunch of states, and some minor adjustments in others. There are still more results pending for tonight. Democrats Abroad, and the Republican caucus in Hawaii.
But I'm not going to wait for them. Here are the net delegate changes since my Sunday post:
- Biden +484 delegates
- Trump +137 delegates
- Haley +3 delegates
And with that, we have presumptive nominees in both parties. The only way this changes is if one or both candidates drop out or become incapacitated or whatever before the conventions.
If that happens, I'll be back with more delegate blog posts. Otherwise, I'll continue to update the delegate totals on the website until the end of the primary season, but won't be posting anything here.
When you effectively have two incumbents, turns out the delegate races are pretty boring. Usually you have at something interesting to follow in at least one of the two parties.
Anyway, here are the important graphs and charts, one last time.
Democrats:
Republicans:
And that's it.
I am way overdue for a general election polling update. I'll get to it as soon as I can.
In the meantime, here are the countdowns until the conventions, one more time:
124.8 days until the Republican National Convention
159.8 days until the Democratic National Convention