Clinton, Cruz clinch victories in weekend primaries
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and rival GOP candidate Ted Cruz have scored victories in separate primary caucuses held over the weekend.
On Saturday, Clinton won the Democratic caucuses on the Northern Mariana Islands, the US territory located in the Pacific Ocean near Guam, with 102 total votes to 65 votes for rival Bernie Sanders. She won four delegates, increasing her delegate lead over Sanders to 223.
The tiny Pacific island represents Clinton’s 14th primary victory to Sanders’ nine and was the only Democratic contest held this weekend.
On Guam, where Republicans held their primary, Ted Cruz picked up a single delegate. Guam’s delegates do not have to announce their preferred candidate for two weeks, so that they can hear from all four Republican presidential campaigns.
Cruz, in the run-up to vote, sent a letter promising the islanders that he would fight for their future, writing, “It’s Guam’s time … Guam is of great strategic importance to the United States. It is time we treated it as such.”
Marco Rubio won Puerto Rico by more than 50% last week, earning the commonwealth’s 23 delegates. But he has only won a single state, Minnesota, compared with Cruz’s four states and Trump’s seven.
Americans who live in Guam, Puerto Rico or the Northern Mariana Islands cannot vote in the general election. Both Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are nearly 6,000 miles away from California’s coast.
Fewer than 54,000 people live on the islands, according to the 2010 Census, and about 165,000 live on Guam.
In Wyoming, Ted Cruz was projected to be headed for victory, winning at least three delegates and nearly 60% of the vote with more than 13 of 23 precincts reporting.
The state will decide 12 delegates on Saturday, another 14 delegates in a state convention in April, and three in a decision by party leaders.
Rubio trailed Cruz in Wyoming with around 30% of the vote and Trump came in third at 18%.
Voting is also underway for Republicans in Washington DC, which has 19 delegates, as many as Hawaii.
Registered Republicans make up only about 6% of Washington, DC’s voters.
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