Does that mean more electoral votes?
DC already has 3 electoral votes but no Senators and only a non-voting ‘delegate’ in Congress (I think).
But if we simply must make DC a state, which we surely do not, then compromise by taking northern Virginia (Fairfax County, Arlington, Alexandria) and adding it back to the District. DC is already 100% Democrat and taking NOVA away from Virginia would make Virginia relatively safe Republican.
Obviously it’ll never happen....
Nope they already have 3
No.
It would mean just two more Democrat U.S. Senators.
Will never be approved by Congress.
Yes. It would mean at least two more. Possibly three, but likely two.
The new state would have two Senators and one Representative (I am assuming they don’t have the population to warrant more than one Representative). The existing 438 Representatives may be redistributed.
No........