{"id":406987,"date":"2024-03-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=406987"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Who-is-Jason-Palmer-Previously-unknown-Democrat-beats-Biden-in-American-Samoa-s-Democratic-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Who-is-Jason-Palmer-Previously-unknown-Democrat-beats-Biden-in-American-Samoa-s-Democratic-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Jason Palmer? Previously unknown Democrat  beats Biden in American Samoa&#8217;s Democratic caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON (AP)\u2014<\/strong>President Joe Biden was sweeping every Democratic contest on Super Tuesday\u2014except for American Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>He fell short there to a previously unknown candidate named Jason Palmer on Tuesday. Out of 91 ballots cast in the territory\u2019s caucus, Palmer won 51 and Biden won 40, according to the local party.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome will hardly derail Biden\u2019s march toward his party\u2019s nomination. Only six delegates were at stake in the U.S. territory, a tiny collection of islands in the South Pacific with fewer than 50,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer, 52, appears to have campaigned in the territory. On the day before the caucus, he posted on X that \u201cWashington D.C. is long overdue for a president who will be an advocate for American Samoa.\u201d His account includes pictures of young people holding homemade campaign signs.<\/p>\n<p>On his website, Palmer describes himself as a Baltimore resident who has worked for various businesses and nonprofits, often on issues involving technology and education. He did not immediately return a phone message.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of U.S. territories vote in primaries but do not have representation in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>American Samoa has been the site of quixotic victories before. During the 2020 Democratic primaries, billionaire Michael Bloomberg\u2019s only win came in the territory.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/f4a165b4885d58a97e22fddf9e51ad88.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>A sailing ship is seen in the harbor at Pago Pago, American Samoa, in July 2002.<\/p>\n<p>-AP<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP)\u2014President Joe Biden was sweeping every Democratic contest on Super Tuesday\u2014except for American Samoa&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}