{"id":12909,"date":"2024-03-07T04:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/biden-loses-american-samoa-to-unknown-candidate-jason-palmer\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T04:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:13:43","slug":"biden-loses-american-samoa-to-unknown-candidate-jason-palmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/biden-loses-american-samoa-to-unknown-candidate-jason-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Loses American Samoa to Unknown Candidate Jason Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Joe Biden, although winning most of the Democratic primary contests on Super Tuesday, lost the American Samoa to Jason Palmer.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer, a relatively unknown and obscure candidate, secured 56% of the vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden is losing to a guy that nobody\u2019s heard of and that CNN doesn\u2019t even have a picture of in the American Samoa caucus tonight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p1xmkkoSlg\">pic.twitter.com\/p1xmkkoSlg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jasmine Keith (@Jasmine_Keith1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jasmine_Keith1\/status\/1765219068532109458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>News anchors were surprised by the results, with Fox News\u2019 Bret Baier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/bret-baier-stunned-by-bidens-first-loss-i-dont-even-know-who-jason-palmer-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t even know who Jason Palmer is. But he is now the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the outcome will likely have little effect on the rest of his campaign, the loss does mark Biden as the first incumbent president to lose a primary race since 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer told the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/who-is-jason-palmer-american-samoa-primary-c4bc109a16c7ee7b083f6216b44ba0c4#:~:text=Out%20of%2091%20ballots%20cast,in%20an%20interview%20late%20Tuesday.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> in an interview, \u201cI found out that I had won because my phone started blowing up with friends and campaign staffers texting me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been campaigning remotely, doing Zoom town halls, talking to people, listening to them about their concerns and what matters to them,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CNN, Palmer said Democrats are \u201csleepwalking into a Trump election,\u201d noting that he is therefore \u201crunning to energize young voters and also center-left, center-right people with a positive vision of what we can do in the next four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then called for Biden to \u201cpass the torch to the next generation of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Palmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/apac\/news-releases\/jason-palmers-democratic-presidential-campaign-gains-momentum-in-american-samoa-302076556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">qualified<\/a> for the presidential ballot in 16 states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/biden-loses-american-samoa-to-unknown-candidate-jason-palmer\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden, although winning most of the Democratic primary contests on Super Tuesday, lost the American Samoa to Jason Palmer. Palmer, a relatively unknown and obscure candidate, secured 56% of the vote. Joe Biden is losing to a guy that nobody\u2019s heard of and that CNN doesn\u2019t even have a picture of in the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}