How to replace local with remote branch entirely in Git?

I have two branches:

Recently I seriously messed up my local branch.

How would I replace the local branch entirely with the remote one, so I can continue my work from where the remote branch is now?

I have already searched and checked out to the remote branch locally does not have any effect. How git replace local with remote?

Steps required to replace local with remote:

Step 1: Delete your local branch

    $ git branch -d local_branch

Step 2: Fetch the latest remote branch

    $ git fetch origin remote_branch

Step 3: Rebuild the local branch based on the remote one

$ git checkout -b local_branch origin/remote_branch

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