Biden loses American Samoa Democratic caucuses (thehill.com)

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[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh no, Samoa? Biden is fucked, wow, I wonder what will happen now…

[+] xmunk@sh.itjust.works -33 points 6 months ago

Samoa is pretty unimportant but polling is showing how fucked Biden (and all of us) are.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 26 points 6 months ago

There are reasons to be fairly suspicious of the factual backing of some of the polls

[-] TSR55@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago

Something like 91 total votes were cast, 51 went to that Palmer guy so he gets the delegates. Unclear why he’d bother but I’m sure he has some kind of angle.

[-] bostonbananarama@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Unclear why he’d bother

That's the best bar story ever!

Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I won the American Samoa Democratic primary?

[-] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago

Oh no, this is terrible, what if he ends up losing all zero of their electoral votes too?!

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I hear they have an excellent law school

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

…

Anyways…

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 6 months ago

I like how it's phrased not as "this is the candidate that won, I'm so concerned about Biden's poor performance that obviously as a genuine Democrat, I'm hyping up this other guy who isn't old who I think would be better."

Or "Hey everybody you should support the Green Party instead, because I don't like the DNC I'm trying to promote them, as a genuine leftist"

Nope

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

President Biden was projected to lose the Democratic caucuses in American Samoa to an obscure candidate in a surprising result that comes amid a string of Super Tuesday wins.

The race was called Tuesday night by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), who confirmed the results with the Democratic Party of American Samoa.

Palmer has reportedly qualified for the presidential ballot in just 16 states and territories, according to a release from the campaign through PR Newswire.

Since American Samoa is a U.S. territory, it doesn’t have electoral votes in the general election — but it can still send 11 delegates to the Democratic National Convention later this year.

Democrat Michael Bloomberg came out on top in the party’s 2020 Super Tuesday contest in American Samoa, while then-candidate Biden got single-digit support.

The contests are set to give boosts to both Biden and former President Trump, the GOP front-runner, as they fight to lock in their respective party nods.

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