The local Republican Party will endorse a presidential candidate next month.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Guam\u2019s Republican Party officially endorsed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday ahead of the Iowa causes this week. Cruz right now trails GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, according to stateside polls.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will endorse the nominee via votes of the locally elected delegates\u201d in March, local GOP spokesperson Ivan Blanco told Saipan Tribune in an email. <\/p>\n
Typically, the three Pacific territories\u2014Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands\u2014and Hawaii back the same candidate for the GOP nomination, according to Cruz strategic consultant Dennis Lennox in an email. <\/p>\n
Hawaii, with 19 delegates, has its caucus on March 8; American Samoa, with nine delegates, has its caucus on March 22; and the Northern Mariana Islands, also with nine delegates, holds its convention on March 15.<\/p>\n
The Iowa caucus is slated for Monday (mainland time) and the Guam caucus on March 12. <\/p>\n
In his endorsement letter, Gov. Eddie Calvo\u2014Guam chairman of \u201cCruz for President\u201d\u2014said Cruz and he share many views on fiscal and foreign policy.<\/p>\n
On immigration, Calvo said the federal government has \u201cimposed the most liberal immigration policy in U.S. history upon our island with contrition, recompense, or even acknowledgement.\u201d \u201cYour concern over and solutions to the mismanagement and irresponsibility of the federal government in reckless immigration policy will serve our island well,\u201d Calvo said.<\/p>\n
On the protection of the rights of citizens to speak and protest, to worship, and to protect themselves and bear arms, Calvo said he wishes the federal government would understand how meaningful it is for someone in Washington to recognize that these rights are even more important to a territory \u201coften burdened by the federal behemoth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour crusade against the consolidation of federal power means something real and vital to the future of Guam and the protection of our culture, language, and the political and economy we need to thrive,\u201d Calvo said. \u201cIt has been a crushing and ever-increasing burden for years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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