Just to upfront, I am a Limey so my understanding of the situation is not complete.
Basically, like most people on here, I've been following the news of the election fraud which has occurred in US election. Why? As I want Trump to win! Also, it is a distraction to the kung-flu rubbish I have to put up with.
Earlier today I remembered that Puerto Rico was a thing and wondered if they had a referendum last week. It turns out that they did, where they voted 52% in favour of applying for statehood (with over 50% voter turnout). However, uncounted ballots have been found so that figure might change.
When Trump is reconfirmed as President, do you think that he would support PR becoming the 51st State? Or will PR's request be thrown out by the GOP controlled Senate?
50 stars. 50 states... PR is gonna have to fight another state to the death
I look forward to the great Wyoming-Puerto Rico rumble!
It's a ploy by Democrats to get two more senators.
Wouldn't disagree with you. It's the same ploy with D.C. to my understanding.
They can't really make DC a state. That would require a constitutional amendment, which would never happen.
What does becoming a State mean exactly? If it means they get less funds from the federal government then fine but if it means more then no. The problem with PR is that they are poor and don't run themselves properly. How will them becoming a State help the federation at all?
They are super corrupt, remember how the governor was complaining about Trump not sending out supplies? A year later they found a full warehouse of supplies, seemingly kept away in order to make Trump look bad.
All very good questions and I do not have answers for them.
Here's the bottom line: There's as much of a chance of PR becoming a state any time soon as Hillary Clinton becoming president. Same with Washington D.C.
Short and sweet. Thank you.
Puerto Rico needs to be independent.
The US should only have a military presence there.
Fair enough.
While it's true that the vote for statehood was 52%, the independence vote went up to greater than 14%, which is unprecedented in modern history. (Normally it's 0.5 to maybe 2%.) The rest of the votes were for status quo. So really, it's no different than previous plebiscites. What should interest you more is that a brand-new based conservative party, Proyecto Dignidad, picked up seats in the Senate, the House, and lots of mayorships. They just got started this year. The lady who won a seat in the Senate is for independence.
Thank you for the in-detail reply. As stated above I am from the UK so this background is very helpful, thank you.
Yeah no..