SAN JUAN – Puerto Rico’s Republican Party held a district meeting on Sunday and awarded former President Donald Trump all 23 of their nationwide delegates.
About 77% of the 1,340 contributors that make up the U.S. territory’s Republican Party participated, in keeping with Angel Cintron, who heads the GOP there.
He mentioned they held a caucus-style vote that determined how Puerto Rico’s delegates to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July will pledge their votes. Twenty delegates and 20 alternates have been selected.
Trump successfully clinched his birthday celebration’s nomination previous this yr.
As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico does no longer take part within the presidential elections however does vote in primaries for the eventual nominees.
Politics in Puerto Rico is dictated by means of the political standing folks consider the island will have to have: statehood, independence or the territorial established order. Several outstanding contributors of the island’s Republican Party had introduced forward of the district meeting that they don’t improve Trump.
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