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OrlandoDem2

(2,270 posts) Sun Aug 30, 2020, 01:23 PM Aug 2020

Biden supports Puerto Rican statehood! This is good and it could swing the election.

Puerto Rican statehood matters to Puerto Rican’s, many of whom live in the swing area of Central FL. The I-4 corridor will determine who wins FL and it is Biden who our Puerto Rican friends should support.

https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/08/14/bidenstatehood/

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Biden supports Puerto Rican statehood! This is good and it could swing the election. (Original Post) OrlandoDem2 Aug 2020 OP

And the senate!😍 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #1

Personally, I'd prefer PR be annexed onto FL -- making 29+ electoral votes D for a L-O-N-G time. eppur_se_muova Aug 2020 #2

But many don't vote. If they do they support a candidate who supports statehood. OrlandoDem2 Aug 2020 #4

Yes! FM123 Aug 2020 #3

SheltieLover

(59,599 posts)

1. And the senate!😍

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Original post)

Sun Aug 30, 2020, 01:32 PM

Aug 2020

eppur_se_muova

(37,388 posts)

2. Personally, I'd prefer PR be annexed onto FL -- making 29+ electoral votes D for a L-O-N-G time.

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Original post)

Sun Aug 30, 2020, 01:35 PM

Aug 2020

A huge number of Puerto Ricans have been forced to move to FL after the hurricane already, so it would just formalize the existing situation.

OrlandoDem2

(2,270 posts)

4. But many don't vote. If they do they support a candidate who supports statehood.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 30, 2020, 02:19 PM

Aug 2020

You’d think our PR friends would vote more heavily for the Dem. They are, however, split.

FM123

(10,126 posts)

3. Yes!

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Original post)

Sun Aug 30, 2020, 01:36 PM

Aug 2020

We now have the largest population of Puerto Ricans of any state (a million) and they can vote! Trump forgets that once they reside in any of the fifty states they have the power to vote him out of office. Of course Joe knows all of this when he says he is pro-statehood because he is smart and on the ball - not like that orange idiot who makes stupid comments about how "dirty" he thinks Puerto Rico is and how we should get rid of it for Greenland instead....

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