Reuters
The Republican Party of Puerto Rico held a district assembly this Sunday and awarded former President Donald Trump its 23 delegates who will represent the island in July at the national convention in Milwaukee.
The assembly had the participation of approximately 77% of the 1,340 members that make up the Republican Party on the island, according to Ángel Cintrón, party leader there.
Cintrón noted that a caucus-style vote was held to decide how Puerto Rican delegates will give their endorsement during the Republican National Convention to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 20 and their respective substitutes were chosen.
Trump secured the Republican Party nomination a few weeks ago.
Being a US territory, Puerto Rico does not participate in presidential elections, but votes in primaries to elect eventual candidates.
Several high-ranking members of the Republican Party on the island had announced before the assembly that they do not support Trump.
This Sunday it was also reported that a group of radical Republicans related to former President Donald Trump, led by far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, threatened to push for the impeachment of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, after the approval of new funds. for Ukraine.
“Mike Johnson's presidency is over. He needs to do the right thing: resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process or else he will be removed,” the congresswoman noted in an interview on Fox News.
In late March, Greene introduced a motion to impeach Johnson, although she has not yet activated the mechanism to put it to a vote.