{"id":6900,"date":"2024-03-07T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/zoom-meetings-and-beach-clean-ups-how-unknown-jason-palmer-beat-biden-in-the-american-samoa-primary\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T01:59:00","slug":"zoom-meetings-and-beach-clean-ups-how-unknown-jason-palmer-beat-biden-in-the-american-samoa-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/zoom-meetings-and-beach-clean-ups-how-unknown-jason-palmer-beat-biden-in-the-american-samoa-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom meetings and beach clean-ups: how unknown Jason Palmer beat Biden in the American Samoa primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the US territory say a targeted ad campaign was responsible for the US president\u2019s loss in the Democratic Super Tuesday caucus<\/p>\n<p>In less than 24 hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/06\/american-samoa-democratic-caucus-jason-palmer-beats-joe-biden-results\">Jason Palmer<\/a> went from being a relatively unknown Baltimore businessman, to toppling a sitting president in a US primary caucus. Since then he\u2019s been featured in newspaper profiles, been interviewed on major news networks \u2013 and found himself the subject of internet memes across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s campaign team may have expected to win every Democratic contest on Super Tuesday \u2013 but if so, they didn\u2019t account for American Samoa. Of the 91 ballots cast in the territory\u2019s caucus, Palmer won 51, while Biden received 40.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/07\/jason-palmer-american-samoa-primary-joe-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the US territory say a targeted ad campaign was responsible for the US president\u2019s loss in the Democratic Super Tuesday caucus In less than 24 hours, Jason Palmer went from being a relatively unknown Baltimore businessman, to toppling a sitting president in a US primary caucus. Since then he\u2019s been featured in newspaper &#8230; <a title=\"Zoom meetings and beach clean-ups: how unknown Jason Palmer beat Biden in the American Samoa primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/zoom-meetings-and-beach-clean-ups-how-unknown-jason-palmer-beat-biden-in-the-american-samoa-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Zoom meetings and beach clean-ups: how unknown Jason Palmer beat Biden in the American Samoa primary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}