Jason Palmer's Campaign

[E-Dawg]

So no-name candidate Jason Palmer managed to defeat Biden in the American Samoa caucuses, making Joe Biden the first incumbent president to lose a primary contest since 1980 (outside of a couple of 1996 contests Bill Clinton wasn't on the ballot for). American Samoa does not disappoint, between this and giving Bloomberg his only win in 2020 (with Tulsi Gabbard in 2nd place!) I checked Jason Palmer's Wikipedia page, and it turned out that the page was literally created after his primary win! So the guy didn't even have a Wikipedia page, and yet he defeated the incumbent president of the United States! What a legend.

So how did Palmer achieve this remarkable feat? Simple, he went down to campaign in American Samoa when no other candidate did, which got him 51 votes to outnumber Biden's 40 votes. Although this contest is completely meaningless due to the tiny vote count and this territory's isolation from the mainland US, it's still really funny and a pretty bad look for Biden (the Biden campaign should have had some minimal level of organization in these territories to prevent embarrassments like this).

With that background out of the way, this thread is for any discussion of Jason Palmer's campaign.

[Ferguson97]

making Joe Biden the first president to lose a primary contest since 1980

I don’t know why people keep repeating this when it isn’t true Bill Clinton lost North Dakota to some random dude and lost Michigan to “uncommitted” in 1996

[Yelnoc]

Out of curiosity, where else is Palmer on the ballot?

[Open Source Intelligence]

So are the Democratic National Committee going to Lyndon LaRouche him and find some technicality so he doesn't have his delegates at the Convention?

If the Democratic Party believes in democracy after all, he should have his delegates unheeded. He won them.

[Kleine Scheiße]

making Joe Biden the first president to lose a primary contest since 1980

I don’t know why people keep repeating this when it isn’t true Bill Clinton lost North Dakota to some random dude and lost Michigan to “uncommitted” in 1996

Bill Clinton wasn't on the ballot in either of those states in 1996.

[Harlow]

making Joe Biden the first president to lose a primary contest since 1980

I don’t know why people keep repeating this when it isn’t true Bill Clinton lost North Dakota to some random dude and lost Michigan to “uncommitted” in 1996

Bill Clinton wasn't on the ballot in either of those states in 1996.

That guy sounds like an interesting dude...

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[ClassicElectionEnthusiast]

making Joe Biden the first president to lose a primary contest since 1980

I don’t know why people keep repeating this when it isn’t true Bill Clinton lost North Dakota to some random dude and lost Michigan to “uncommitted” in 1996

I was unaware of that fact until today; but upon digging further - at least with North Dakota it was due to Clinton protesting the state trying to move up the primary date (similar to Biden boycotting New Hampshire this time; only I guess no one in the ND Democratic party thought to come up with a write-in strategy for Clinton).

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Bill Clinton did not lose any primaries in 1996. He was not on the primary ballot in Michigan or North Dakota in 1996, so he didn't lose to anyone in those states

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Out of curiosity, where else is Palmer on the ballot?

Hawai'i and Mariana Islands, and some others on the mainland (where Jason is "actually very well known!")

[E-Dawg]

So are the Democratic National Committee going to Lyndon LaRouche him and find some technicality so he doesn't have his delegates at the Convention?

If the Democratic Party believes in democracy after all, he should have his delegates unheeded. He won them.

Why would the DNC care enough about like 6 deglates to put an effort into blocking them? Biden has at least 99 percent of the delegates, he's fine.

[Devils30]

This contest had 91 total votes, lets chill.

[The Mikado]

So are the Democratic National Committee going to Lyndon LaRouche him and find some technicality so he doesn't have his delegates at the Convention?

If the Democratic Party believes in democracy after all, he should have his delegates unheeded. He won them.

Why would the DNC care enough about like 6 deglates to put an effort into blocking them? Biden has at least 99 percent of the delegates, he's fine.

3 delegates. AS' 6 delegates split 3-3 between Palmer and Biden.

[Consuming is good, it's what we're made for]

This contest had 91 total votes, lets chill.

I think it's more about the novelty. This will make an incredibly fun trivia question in 10 years.

[Open Source Intelligence]

So are the Democratic National Committee going to Lyndon LaRouche him and find some technicality so he doesn't have his delegates at the Convention?

If the Democratic Party believes in democracy after all, he should have his delegates unheeded. He won them.

Why would the DNC care enough about like 6 deglates to put an effort into blocking them? Biden has at least 99 percent of the delegates, he's fine.

They've done it twice before. 2000 and 2012.

[E-Dawg]

This contest had 91 total votes, lets chill.

I said in op that this primary is completely meaningless. I do think it's a bad look for Biden that he wasn't able to lock down the territory, but I don't think it actually means anything for the election. It's just a really funny and embarrassing thing that happened.

[Arizona Iced Tea]

This is going to be a very meaningless thing because it drives some Biden supporters insane. They will no longer be able to claim he swept every primary unlike Trump, and every time they pull up that map there is going to be a spec of blue for Palmer. Means absolutely nothing for the general though.

[7,052,770]

So are the Democratic National Committee going to Lyndon LaRouche him and find some technicality so he doesn't have his delegates at the Convention?

If the Democratic Party believes in democracy after all, he should have his delegates unheeded. He won them.

Why would the DNC care enough about like 6 deglates to put an effort into blocking them? Biden has at least 99 percent of the delegates, he's fine.

They've done it twice before. 2000 and 2012.

Those candidates were complete nuts who didn't support Gore/Obama or anything the party stands for. Palmer seems like a normal guy (I mean, normal for a rando who runs for president) who has a standard Democratic platform and will endorse Biden, so I would assume he'll keep his 3 delegates.

[I love MAGA, don’t send me to the camps]

He’s on the ballot in AZ. I wrestled with voting for him or Cornejo and chose the latter, since both seemed relatively normal for the protest candidate options. Had I only waited for Samoamentum!

[The Mikado]

This is going to be a very meaningless thing because it drives some Biden supporters insane. They will no longer be able to claim he swept every primary unlike Trump, and every time they pull up that map there is going to be a spec of blue for Palmer. Means absolutely nothing for the general though.

You have a very impressive map of the USA if it stretches deep into the Pacific to show American Samoa.

Anyway, I hope Jason Palmer enjoyed his tropical vacation...er...campaign. And I'm glad he has more delegates than Dean Phillips because it piles on more embarrassment on Dean Phillips.

[DrScholl]

Clearly he targeted a place he knew it was easy to win which was smart for reasons of obtaining a win just to say you won a race.

[E-Dawg]

Clearly he targeted a place he knew it was easy to win which was smart for reasons of obtaining a win just to say you won a race.

I bet Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson are kicking themselves for not campaigning in American Samoa

[Consuming is good, it's what we're made for]

Lmao I just noticed that Palmer now has more delegates than Phillips and Williamson

[Helsinkian]

Lmao I just noticed that Palmer now has more delegates than Phillips and Williamson

And he is now on the Wikipedia article's infobox, and they are not.

[インターネット掲示板ユーザー Punxsutawney Phil]

This is going to be a very meaningless thing because it drives some Biden supporters insane. They will no longer be able to claim he swept every primary unlike Trump, and every time they pull up that map there is going to be a spec of blue for Palmer. Means absolutely nothing for the general though.

I didn't know Vermont was an independent republic. Is this 1791?

[E-Dawg]

This is going to be a very meaningless thing because it drives some Biden supporters insane. They will no longer be able to claim he swept every primary unlike Trump, and every time they pull up that map there is going to be a spec of blue for Palmer. Means absolutely nothing for the general though.

I didn't know Vermont was an independent republic. Is this 1791?

You misread what they said, they acknowledged that Trump did not sweep every primary. I give you that their wording was confusing though.