Hillary Clinton won the Guam Democratic caucus on Saturday, gaining key delegates from the small island territory and inching closer to securing her party’s nomination.
Both Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders put a surprising amount of resources into the Guam caucus, which only awards 12 delegates, including five superdelegates.
Each of the Democratic candidates ran radio advertisements on the island in the days leading up to the primary, costing them over $10,000 each.
While Clinton has not spent a single cent on advertising in the upcoming primary states of California, Kentucky and Oregon, her campaign poured $22,000 into Guam ads, a considerably larger number than Sanders did.
While Clinton has yet to be named the Democratic nominee, she is just 60 delegates shy of securing the nomination. The faster she can get them, the sooner she can focus on presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Neither Clinton nor Sanders traveled to Guam to campaign, but Clinton’s daughter Chelsea wrote an op-ed in the Pacific Daily News on Monday in support of her mother’s candidacy. The younger Clinton explained that her mother “would pay attention to Guam and Guam’s issues” while fighting “everyday to provide the same ladders to opportunity as on the mainland.”
There was only one caucus location for all the Democrats in Guam, at a shopping mall in the capital of Hagatna. Only registered Democrats can participate.
