At the nomination meeting held in the Pacific island nation, the former president, now the only Republican presidential candidate remaining in the race, received unanimous support and received 9 delegate votes.
The Democratic Party held its primary in American Samoa on Super Tuesday, where Joe Biden lost surprisingly to businessman Jason Palmer in Baltimore.
American Samoa participates in the primaries of the Republican and Democratic parties, but in the US presidential elections, citizens of the territory, with a population of about 50,000 people, are not entitled to vote.
In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump remained the only candidate on Wednesday, after Nikki Haley announced that she would abandon the campaign following a heavy defeat in 14 out of 15 states on Super Tuesday. After that, the Republican primaries became a formality. Donald Trump currently has 1,075 votes for the presidential candidate, and he needs 1,215 votes to obtain a majority, which he can reach on Tuesday, when the primary elections are held in the federal states of Georgia, Mississippi, Washington, and Hawaii.
The Republican Party is scheduled to hold its national presidential nominating convention in Milwaukee in mid-July, where they will formally choose their presidential nominee.
In the Democratic primary race, Joe Biden faces two nationally underdog challengers. According to customary law, if the incumbent president intends to run again, no “strong” competitor will run against him. Congressman Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson have so far failed to garner a single delegate vote. In the Democratic Party presidential nomination process, a majority requires 1,968 delegate votes, of which Joe Biden currently has 1,866. Joe Biden can also reach the required number of votes to officially run in the primary elections next Tuesday.
On Friday, there was a change in leadership at the head of the Republican Party's national governing body, the Republican National Committee. Michael Whatley, chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, who was proposed by Donald Trump, was voted in as chairman of the board, while Lara Trump, the wife of one of Donald Trump's children, was voted in as co-chairman.
The outgoing head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, assumed the position in 2016, also with the support of Donald Trump, but the former president urged changes in the leadership of the Republican Party in January of this year, after which Ronna McDaniel announced that she was leaving her position. . In his farewell speech, he stated that the party's position is strong.
After the election of Michael Whatley, he made it clear that the Republican caucus would work closely with Donald Trump during the next eight months, while Lara Trump said that the only goal was to win on November 5.
Source: MTI
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