BIOGRAPHY, WIKIPEDIA, AGE, WIFE, SEXUALITY, GOT 56.0% VOTES, RELIGION OF DEMOCRAT, Jason Palmer.
JASON PALMER RELIGION:
Jason Palmer is a Christian.
SEXUALITY OF JASON PALMER: Jason Palmer is a straight man.
According to his candidate website, Palmer boasts of previously serving in executive and leadership positions at multiple organizations, including Microsoft, Kaplan Education, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the impact investor firm New Markets Venture Partners.
Palmer has pointed to that experience in pitching himself as a “problem solver” in the presidential race, promising to create a new Department of Innovation and Technology.
In 2020, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won the territory’s Democratic caucus, picking up four delegates to the Democratic National Convention, while Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii came in second, earning two delegates to the convention.
In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the American Samoa Democratic caucus and also won the Democratic nomination. Clinton also won the caucus in 2008, though she didn’t win the Democratic nomination.
American Samoa’s Democratic caucuses generally have low turnout. Ninety-one people voted Tuesday, while over 300 voted in the 2020 contest, which featured 10 candidates. In 2016, over 200 people voted in the Democratic caucus.
“I kept waiting for someone with a business background to join the race. When they didn’t, I decided to run based on my strong business background,” he said last year, according to MarketWatch.
The business news outlet also reported that Palmer supports “freedom of choice, speech and religion.”
“Palmer brings twenty-five years of experience in small business and multi-partisan fluency to his political endeavors,” his website states, adding, “As an education technology entrepreneur, executive, and investor, he offers rare levels of expertise.”
Palmer added that his goal is to amass as many delegates as possible so he can influence the convention to make education a top priority in this election.
Pressed about whether he would support Biden if he were the eventual nominee, Palmer said that if he doesn’t get the nomination, “I will support the Democratic nominee for president. But it’s my hope that Joe Biden steps aside for the next generation of leaders.”
Palmer said that there are other great leaders in the Democratic party closer to his age (52) ready to step up and lead and that they have much better chances of beating Donald Trump in the fall.
He said those leaders could be himself or Democratic Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Jared Polis of Colorado or Gavin Newsom of California.