Primary elections 2024 live updates: Latest Trump news

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have won their respective primaries in the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The races were called by the Associated Press around 8pm local time on Tuesday evening.

Both men are looking to add to their respective delegate totals, though the numbers are now somewhat inconsequential, as both have already secured the requisite numbers of delegates needed to win their parties’ nominations at the conventions this summer.

The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York City has agreed to tighten his gag order due to his “vitriolic” attacks on the judge’s family.

In an order on Monday evening, New York Supreme Court judge Juan Merchan said that Mr Trump’s statements represented a “very real” threat to the integrity of the trial.

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And more importantly, who helped him do it?

Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three Northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties’ presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday.

Wisconsin voters will also decide the fate of two Republican-backed statewide ballot measures that will shape how elections in the state are run and funded.

Donald Trump told supporters in Wisconsin that 2024 was “our final battle”.

“It was hard working patriots like you, Wisconsin, who built this country, and its hard working patriots like you who are going to save our country at a very, very perilous time,” he said.

“We will fight for America like no one has ever fought before. 2024 is our final battle and with you at my side we will demolish the deep state, we will expel the war mongers.

“With your support we will go on to victory the likes of which no one has ever seen before. We will evict crooked Joe Biden the worst president in the history of our country from the White House, and we will take back our country on November 5 2024 – the most important day in the history of our country.”

Donald Trump claimed he had been indicted more times than infamous US gangster Al Capone during his rally in Wisconsin.

“I got indicted more than Alphonse Capone – Scarface you know,” he said.

“Bad, he was you know… if you ever looked at Alphonse Capone, you wouldn’t be tough at all. You’d be dead by the morning most likely, I got indicted more than Alfonse.

“Alphonse was a tough man. they did a movie called Scarface check it out.”

Donald Trump repeated his previously controversial “bloodbath” rhetoric, as he returned to the campaign trail in Wisconsin.

The former president has accused the media of willfully misinterpreting his words, after he used the term previously to describe the result of a defeat for him in November’s election.

Speaking a the rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, he said: “I‘m here tonight to declare that Joe Biden’s border bloodbath – remember they used the name bloodbath, I was talking about something entirely different – but this is a border bloodbath ends the day I take the oath of office.

“With your vote, I will seal the border I will stop the invasion I will end the carnage, bloodshed and killing and we will crush the human traffickers.”

Mr Trump used the phrase “bloodbath” at a rally in Ohio last month as he warned of dire economic consequences for an American auto industry under pressure from China without him back in the White House.

“If I don’t get elected it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he declared.

At his rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump poked fun at President Joe Biden’s golfing ability, while claiming the Mr Biden excelled at “cheating at elections and disinformation”.

“You know if pilots come in, he says I used to fly planes. If truckers come in he says I used to truck. I used to drive a nice truck,” he said. “His biggest lie of all he said… did you ever see him swinging a golf club he’s like this.”

Mr Trump, a keen golfer, then performed a doddering impression of Mr Biden golfing.

“He said he was a six handicap… He’s not a 36 handicap,” he said.

Mr Biden previously challenged Mr Trump to a game of golf.