Mitt Romney handily beat Rick Santorum in Puerto Rico’s presidential primary, the Associated Press reported on Sunday night.
Romney’s victory was so convincing that he took all 20 of the island’s delegates because he scored more than 50 percent of the vote. Enrique Melendez, the Republican representative on the Puerto Rican state electoral commission, confirmed to the AP that Romney “won the Puerto Rican primary by a huge margin and we are granting him the 20 delegates.”
The former Massachusetts governor has now made a clean sweep of all U.S. territories to vote thus far in the GOP primary, including the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.
Romney painted his victory as a sign that Latinos were open to supporting Republicans in the fall.
“Those people who don’t think that Latinos will vote for a Republican need to take a look at Puerto Rico,” Romney said from a suburb north of Chicago. “I intend to become our nominee and I intend to get Latino voters to vote for a Republican and take back the White House.
“We just had good news from Puerto Rico. I think we’re taking all 20 delegates, so that was great news,” added Ann Romney, his wife.
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