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Super Tuesday: Trump, Biden win primaries in Rappahannock

by | Mar 7, 2024

Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden seem all but guaranteed to compete again for the presidency this November after taking the lead in the Republican and Democratic primary races Tuesday in Virginia as well as on the national level and in Rappahannock County. 

If both hold the lead in coming primaries, November’s presidential election will be the second time the two will face off, after Biden beat Trump in 2020. 

Out of the six Republicans on the ballot, Trump received 74.37% or 711 votes in Rappahannock County, beating his chief competitor Nikki Haley, who received 24.06% or 230 votes, according to unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections (VDOE). 

Biden received the most votes in the Democratic primary in Rappahannock County, earning 89.2% or 314 votes. His two opponents, Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips, combined earned 10.8% or 38 votes, according to VDOE. 

Trump and Biden also won their respective races on the state level — Trump receiving 63.11% of the Republican vote in Virginia and Biden receiving 88.7% of the Democratic. Nationally, not enough states have held primaries yet for presumptive nominees to be announced, but Biden has won all of the Democratic primaries to date, and Trump has won all but two — Vermont and the District of Columbia — which Haley claimed.

Voter turnout in the county was low, with only 15.32% of the 6,280 registered voters voting in the Republican race and 5.62% in the Democratic race. A total of 1,315 votes (962 Republican and 353 Democratic) were cast in Rappahannock County, according to VDOE.

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    Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.

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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.