Published March 6, 2024
- President Joe Biden has lost one Super Tuesday contest – American Samoa’s caucus
- Entrepreneur Jason Palmer, who visited the territory, beat the sitting president by 11 votes, earning him four Democratic delegates
- Palmer is a Baltimore-based investor whose campaign website crashed once his win was announced
President Joe Biden suffered a shock defeat on Super Tuesday, losing American Samoa’s caucuses to unknown candidate Jason Palmer.
The president was beaten in the tiny U.S. territory in the South Pacific that isn’t awarded Electoral College votes but can still send Democratic delegates to this summer’s convention.
Just 91 Democrats turned out to vote, with Palmer receiving 51 votes to Biden’s 40. American Samoa has just six delegates, with Palmer expected to earn four and Biden two.
The tiny Pacific Ocean American territory is 5,000 miles away from the U.S. mainland and is a 14-hour flight west of Los Angeles.
‘I didn’t actually fly to American Samoa,’ the Baltimore-based investor said Tuesday night on CNN. ‘I actually did multiple virtual town halls and spoke with the nationals there because, you may not know, but people in American Samoa are not necessarily automatically Americans citizens.’
During the 2020 Democratic primary race, American Samoa was the only contest to be won by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor.
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SOURCE:www.dailymail.co.uk
RELATED: Biden Loses American Samoa Democrat Caucus in First Defeat of 2024
Published March 6, 2024
President Joe Biden lost the American Samoa Democrat caucus on Super Tuesday, denying the president a complete primary sweep of all states and territories.
Decision Desk HQ called the race at around 9:30 p.m. Eastern.
The territory is worth 11 Democrat delegates.
Biden lost to Democrat Jason Palmer, an entrepreneur and investor who previously worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to his campaign.
With 99% of the expected vote reporting, Palmer leads with 56% of the vote, followed by Biden with 44%.
The results mark Biden’s first loss in the nominating race so far. That doesn’t meaningfully change his enormous lead overall, however, as he looks set for a general election rematch with former President Donald Trump.
Palmer told ABC News late Tuesday that he realized he had won American Samoa at precisely 9:30 p.m. ET while sitting in at a hotel in Washington, D.C., when it became apparent to him that something must have happened as his cellphone started ringing off the hook with several media outlets and multiple staffers texting him directly.
Palmer is currently in the U.S. capital to attend a future of education conference where he is slated to speak on Wednesday. He was surrounded by other conference-goers when he declared victory.
In a chipper yet surprised mood, Palmer told ABC News: “It feels great.”
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SOURCE: www.breitbart.com
RELATED: Who is Jason Palmer? Biden loses the American Samoa Democratic caucuses to entrepreneur
He calls himself a “problem solver” and says the president should be younger.
Published March 6, 2024
In a surprising yet politically inconsequential upset on Super Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden lost the American Samoa Democratic caucuses to entrepreneur Jason Palmer.
On Tuesday night, the local Democratic Party chair confirmed to ABC News that Palmer won, though the ballot total was tiny, with less than 100 votes between both candidates.
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SOURCE: www.abcnews.go.com
