Cruz poised to win Saturday caucus in Guam

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Eight thousand miles from Washington D.C., Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is expected to sweep a Saturday vote that likely will not get much media attention: the caucus in Guam, a tiny unincorporated U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean with nine delegates to offer to the GOP convention, where about 2,460 others will gather.

With little fanfare in January, Cruz secured his first gubernatorial endorsement from Guam's Republican executive Eddie Calvo, whom Cruz sent a cake on his birthday. Calvo pledged to encourage his party to send all the island's delegates to Cleveland in July on Cruz's behalf, according to the Pacific Daily News.

Wishing a very happy birthday to Guam @GovernorCalvo! pic.twitter.com/OxYBAFWoVY — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 29, 2015

"It is Guam's time," said a letter from Cruz to the Guamanian GOP, which was obtained by the Chronicle and will be read on the caucus floor Saturday morning. "Guam has taken on greater significance than ever as the world pivots to the Pacific and as we confront evolving security and economic challenges in Asia, including issues like missile defense and trade. Guam is of great strategic importance to the United States. It is time that we treat it as such."

Guamanians can't actually vote in U.S. presidential elections, but caucuses there can send delegates to the parties' conventions.

Of the remaining GOP candidates, Cruz took in the most donations from Guam, $712, Pacific Daily News reported. And The Washington Post reported that only the Cruz campaign sent a surrogate on a tour of American holdings in the Pacific to campaign. He seems poised for a big win on the little island.

In his letter, Cruz wrote, "It is my dream to land in Air Force Once at Won Pat International Airport, to visit Guamanians and Chamorros (indigenous people of Guam), and to see firsthand what I expect will be the positive effects of my proposals to unleash the potential of the hard-working people of Guam and to reignite the promise of America."

Guam's Saturdaycaucus will kick off at 6 p.m. Eastern Time Friday.