{"id":48867,"date":"2024-03-06T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48867"},"modified":"2024-03-06T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:42:05","slug":"joe-biden-loses-american-samoa-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48867","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden loses American Samoa primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Joe Biden&#8217;s impending coronation as the 2024 Democratic candidate was interrupted &#8212; slightly &#8212; on Super Tuesday when a little-known businessman claimed victory in American Samoa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jason Palmer beat the incumbent and runaway favorite in the tiny Pacific Ocean territory&#8217;s caucus, securing a majority there even if most Americans are unaware of who he is.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 91 votes cast, Palmer scooped 51, against Biden&#8217;s 40, the local party said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honored to announce my victory in the American Samoa presidential primary,&#8221; Palmer said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to the incredible community for your support. This win is a testament to the power of our voices. Together, we can rebuild the American Dream and shape a brighter future for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Residents of US territories can vote in primaries but are not represented in the Electoral College system that ultimately decides who wins the White House in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>American Samoa has a history with longshot candidates: billionaire Michael Bloomberg scored his only win of the 2020 Democratic primary race there, before his candidacy flamed out.<\/p>\n<p>And with just four delegates awarded from the win on Tuesday, Palmer is a long way from stealing the nomination from Biden (who still added two of American Samoa&#8217;s delegates to his own tally, in any case).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden&#8217;s impending coronation as the 2024 Democratic candidate was interrupted &#8212; slightly &#8212; on Super Tuesday when a little-known businessman claimed victory in American Samoa. Jason Palmer beat the incumbent and runaway favorite in the tiny Pacific Ocean territory&#8217;s caucus, securing a majority there even if most Americans are unaware of who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[703],"class_list":["post-48867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-joe-biden-loses-american-samoa-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}