Until the last election, the party that won the Governorship also won that of the Resident Commissioner. Usually the latter office holders don’t get “entrenched.” The longest Pierluisi would likely last would be 8 years, presuming Fortuño lasted the same amount, and then he’d probably want to succeed him as Governor (assuming statehood hadn’t occurred by then, in which case he’d run for Senator). I do find it highly disturbing the incestuousness with which there are Republicans and Democrats in the PNP (as far as I know, there is no such situation within the PPD).
Fortuño vs. Pierluisi in DC would presumably vote 180 degrees from the other despite being the equivalent of running mates in this election. Fortuño would become the first GOP-aligned PNP Gubernatorial officeholder since Don Luis Ferré (1969-73). The last two, Pedro Rosselló and Carlos Antonio Romero Barceló, were both mainlander Democrats.
It’s my alarm if PR became a state, that with the abolition of both parties to become Democrats and Republicans, you’d have virtually the entire PPD and half of their opponents in the PNP officially becoming Democrats and a small percent of the PNP becoming Republicans, where we’d be lucky to get maybe 1 or 2 House seats (and probably none of the Senate seats, although Fortuño might be able to win one in the short run).
It's sickening. How would those good buddies later oppose each other as Republicans and Democrats?
I know nothing about the political geography of PR. Probably safe to assume though that the most heavily PNP areas would then be the most Republican. The PPD is leftist and all rat.