Sorry, Madame Clinton got 48 percent of the vote and only that because she beat Trump by 4.3 million votes in left coast California. Take that out and Trump got close to the majority and beat her by 1.5 million votes. Also, if PR wants and is granted “independence” it should please the dorks who ran the PR day parade in NYC and selected a murdering terrorist who killed several Americans in the name of Puerto Rico “independence”. Lets “honor” the parade organizers and their supporters by giving them just that.
Your anger is duly noted, but still, Hillary won the majority of the votes, and California’s votes would count too for the decision of P.R. statehood. That is where the difference lies, because, we’re not talking about the electoral college count in a simple majority decision. Now, if the decision were to be about P.R. statehood requiring not a simple majority, but a 60% or more, then the California vote would not matter, nor NY’s, which is where Hillary “won” the majority of votes.