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Joe Biden, the preferred president in US historical past, was the primary incumbent to lose a major race in additional than 4 many years.
Biden misplaced to unknown entrepreneur Jason Palmer within the American Samoa Democrat major on Tuesday.
However total he received 81 million votes.
“That is the message that Joe Biden wants to listen to that the American individuals need to cross the torch to the subsequent era,” Palmer advised ABC Information. “And so I thank the individuals of American Samoa for coming ahead to make this assertion to the remainder of America.”
We're formally 3+ hours into Tremendous Tuesday outcomes.
Donald Trump is 11 for 11 with wins in AL, AR, CO, ME, MA, MN, NC, OK, TN, TX and VA.
Joe Biden has misplaced American Samoa to an entrepreneur named Jason Palmer. pic.twitter.com/kJbG13LaX5
– Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) 6 March 2024
Biden is the primary incumbent to lose a major election since Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1980, who misplaced to Republican Ronald Reagan by a landslide.
The Washington Instances reported:
President Biden skilled a shock defeat in American Samoa's Democratic major, the primary time an incumbent president has misplaced a major since Jimmy Carter in 1980.
The loss within the US territory within the South Pacific got here on an evening that in any other case noticed a sequence of victories for Mr Biden as he received primaries in a number of states throughout the nation. Each Mr Biden and former President Donald Trump cemented their positions because the front-runners to clinch their respective events' nomination for the 2024 presidential race.
Mr. Carter was the final incumbent to face an analogous scenario when he misplaced a major. In 1980, the Georgian peanut farmer misplaced 12 contests to Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy however managed to win the general Democratic nomination. His closing re-election marketing campaign resulted in a landslide defeat to Republican challenger Ronald Reagan.