Who is Jason Palmer, the long-shot candidate who beat Joe Biden in the American Samoa Democratic primary?
Jason Palmer, an education technology venture capitalist and former staffer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, won the American Samoa Democratic caucus Tuesday, NBC News projects.
Jason Palmer, an education technology venture capitalist and former staffer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, won the American Samoa Democratic caucus Tuesday, NBC News projects.
Palmer won 51 votes, despite having never visited the territory, while President Joe Biden won 40 votes.
"You can never expect to beat an incumbent president, but I love the people of American Samoa, and they’ve been so wonderful to me this past month," Palmer told NBC News after his projected victory.
Palmer, largely an unknown figure before Tuesday, said he held four virtual campaign events in American Samoa in recent days, and he won several hundred votes in New Hampshire's and Nevada's Democratic primaries this year.
Palmer was also on the ballot in Colorado and Vermont on Tuesday, and he said he's on the ballot in 16 states and territories this cycle.
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