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LiberalMind endorses Amata Coleman Radewagen

Election Day is November 3. Republican Delegate Amata Coleman Radewagen, in office since 2015 and re-elected in 2024 with nearly 75% of the vote, faces Democratic challenger Sandra King-Young, a former director of the territory's Medicaid agency. A master table elsewhere lists six candidates for this seat. Only two are confirmed. The other four names are printed in this article as unconfirmed — never as candidates — because that is what the sources support. No polling for this race was located. LiberalMind endorses Amata Coleman Radewagen. Read the research, and see why.

The roster conflict, printed as a conflict — first, because it governs everything below

The 2026 U.S. House elections master table lists six candidates for November 3, 2026: Radewagen (R), King-Young (D), Fualaau Rosie Lancaster (Independent), Tuifagaloa Afu Lefaoseu III (Independent), Meleagi Suitonu-Chapman (D), and Samana Semo Ve'ave'a (Independent). The American Samoa race page's own general-election results table lists only two: Radewagen and King-Young. American Samoa's delegate election is a single general ballot on which multiple candidates can run, and in 2024 Radewagen faced three challengers — Luisa Kuaea, Meleagi Suitonu-Chapman, and Fualaau Rosie Tago Lancaster — which makes a multi-candidate 2026 field plausible. But plausible is not confirmed: the six-name roster rests only on the master table, and the two-name table only on the race page's skeleton. Several of the additional names are documented 2024 candidates, consistent with either genuine 2026 candidacies or stale carry-over in the compilation. The certified arbiter is the American Samoa Election Office list, which was not pulled in this research pass. Accordingly: Radewagen and King-Young are the confirmed candidates. Lancaster, Lefaoseu, Suitonu-Chapman, and Ve'ave'a are unconfirmed names, printed here so readers who encounter the six-name table know its status — they are not listed as candidates anywhere in this article.

Amata Coleman Radewagen (Republican) — the incumbent

Background and service: First elected 2014, in office since 2015; "the first woman to be elected to represent American Samoa in the U.S. Congress" (Hawaii Free Press / Samoa News, 2014). Re-elected in 2024 "winning nearly 75% of the vote" for a sixth term (2024 American Samoan general election compilation). Endorsed by Maggie's List for 2026 (2026 American Samoa House election compilation). Proven — six terms in the seat.

The money (FEC, via the race compilation, as of October 14, 2026): Radewagen raised $60,716, spent $58,027, cash on hand $4,346. The June 30 snapshot showed $39,216 raised. No FEC figures for King-Young or any other candidate appear in the compilation — a gap, printed as such.

Pros: A six-term incumbent coming off a ~75% re-election, with the territory's congressional seniority entirely on her side of the ballot.

Cons: None located in this research beyond the ordinary arithmetic of a long incumbency, which is not a flaw.

The flaw, plainly: No flaw proven in service was located.

Sandra King-Young (Democratic) — the confirmed challenger

Background and service: Former director of the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency and former Democratic National Committeewoman from American Samoa; announced March 2, 2026 (2026 American Samoa House election compilation, citing Talanei). Her candidacy is confirmed independently of the disputed table by her FEC Statement of Candidacy, filed May 20, 2026 (FEC Form 2), and by her endorsement from the American Samoa Democratic Party (same compilation).

The Manchin test: No break with her party toward our values was located in this research; her located record is territorial health administration and party service.

Pros: A territorial agency director's administrative record and her party's formal endorsement, in a race where her ballot place is one of only two confirmed.

Cons: She challenges an incumbent who took nearly three-quarters of the vote two years ago, with no FEC figures in the compilation to price her campaign's scale.

The flaw, plainly: No flaw proven in service was located. The priced item is alignment, stated at its weight and no further.

OUR CALL

LiberalMind endorses Amata Coleman Radewagen.

Radewagen is a proven six-term Republican incumbent re-elected with nearly 75% in 2024. King-Young is a credible, genuinely confirmed challenger with a territorial administrative record and no located Manchin-test break. Endorse the incumbent. The larger service this article performs is the roster discipline in its first section: four names circulating on a master table are unconfirmed, and if the American Samoa Election Office's certified list resolves them onto the ballot, this article will carry a dated update note saying so — the original, and the conflict, retained.

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Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.

AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.

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