The 2016 American Samoa Republican presidential caucuses took place on March 22 in the U.S. territory of

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as one of the Republican Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, the

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held a primary in Arizona and caucuses in Utah, while the

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held primaries and caucuses in three states. The Democratic Party's own Democratic Samoa caucus has already been held on March 1, 2016.

Results

The delegates were originally elected as unbound but all 9 delegates declared their support for Trump after Trump became the presumptive nominee.

Delegates

Utu Abe Malae Utu Abe Malae (died October 2, 2018) was an American Samoan politician, banker and businessman. A long-time leader of the American Samoa Power Authority, he served in the American Samoa Senate, and was a candidate for Governor of American Samoa ...

(Republican Party Chairman) (automatically a delegate) # Su’a Carl Schuster (National Committeeman) (automatically a delegate) #

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Aumua Amata Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen (born December 29, 1947), commonly called Aumua Amata , is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa. Radewagen, a Republican, w ...

(National Committeewoman) (automatically a delegate) # Vice Chairman John Raynar (Trump's local campaign chair) # Taulapapa William Sword # Charles Warren (Cruz's local campaign chairman) # Party Treasurer Tina Ioane # Ann Longnecker # Joan Galea'i Holland

Alternates

# Jim Longnecker # Salote Schuster # Atonio Ioane # Lucia Bartley # John Laumatia # Roy Hall

References

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2016 American Samoa elections

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March 2016 events in the United States