X account: No. You couldn’t get 15 votes in Senate for 2&3, and Puerto Rico would be competitive given changing votes for Hispanic Americans. DC as a state wouldn’t begin to answer bias of Senate towards GOP AND less egregious than when the Dakotas were split into two states to boot.
X account @jbsdc commented that the competitiveness of Puerto Rican statehood could change as Hispanic American voting patterns shift; Washington, D.C. statehood also cannot resolve what it described as the Senate's partisan bias.
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No. You couldn’t get 15 votes in Senate for 2&3, and Puerto Rico would be competitive given changing votes for Hispanic Americans.
DC as a state wouldn’t begin to answer bias of Senate towards GOP AND less egregious than when the Dakotas were split into two states to boot.
Key points
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No. You couldn’t get 15 votes in Senate for 2&3, and Puerto Rico would be competitive given changing votes for Hispanic Americans.
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DC as a state wouldn’t begin to answer bias of Senate towards GOP AND less egregious than when the Dakotas were split into two states to boot.
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