Okay pedes, away from the Democrat rhetoric, let me break the most recent plebiscite down for you and show you why it means jack squat.

1.) First off, it was nonbinding. This is important.

2.) Second, the language was rejected as illegal by the US DOJ, because it only offered 2 options (statehood or no statehood, without defining that). It did not offer a third option, such as a continuance of status quo.

3.) Because of this, 43% of the electorate sat out the plebiscite in protest. Yes, they voted in the rest of the election, but they left that ballot blank.

4.) Of those who voted in the gubernatorial elections, 13% voted for the independence candidate. This is unprecedented since the 1920's. Support for the independence candidate has always bounced between 1 to 2%, and his party consistently gets tossed off the ballot for lack of turnout.

5.) So put all those numbers together, and you see the supposed "52% majority" that voted for statehood only represents about 32% of the electorate. In other words, it was a dismal outcome for statehood.

6.) People are moving on from the question. This year we launched a brand-new conservative Christian party that is agnostic on status (it takes no side). It is interested in making a business-friendly environment, keeping the government out of our churches and bathrooms, stuff like that. All our candidates won their seats, except our gubernatorial candidate. My new Senadora is personally for independence.

Every election, the support for statehood goes down. When I was younger, it was about 55/45 pro-statehood. More recently, it's been about 48/52. Every year it goes down a little more. Today's young people have no interest in statehood and think it's a political football for the graybeards. Puerto Rico is drifting away from the USA culturally, economically, and in every other way. Independence is the inevitable outcome of this train of events. Within 20 years or so, Puerto Rico will have the same kind of status as, say, the Northern Marianas. After that, probably we'll link up with the Dominican Republic in some kind of shared republic.

So calm down. There will be no 2 new blue Senators and 5 blue House members. The only people saying that are morons like AOC who was not born here, speaks no Spanish, and has no idea of the political dynamic here.