U.S. Virgin Islands 2024 Democratic caucus results

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The nationwide presidential nominating race, which kicked off in January, is now drawing to a close six months later.

President Joe Biden is the only major candidate still running in the territory and already clinched the party’s nomination earlier this year.

There are seven delegates available to win in Saturday’s caucuses.

Territory significance

As a U.S. territory — not a state — the U.S. Virgin Islands do not participate in presidential general elections but do help decide whom the political parties nominate as their candidates.

The territory’s 2024 Republican caucuses were in February. Former President Donald Trump won.

In 2020, Biden won his party’s caucuses in the U.S. Virgin Islands over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with about 91% of the vote.

John McCarthy

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.