Posted on 10/06/2020 4:42:11 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
BREAKING: Governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez Garced has endorsed Donald Trump for President
https://t.co/b2eBc9KGwY
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 6, 2020
Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez Garced on Tuesday threw her support behind President Trump’s bid for a second term and called on Puerto Ricans to cast their votes for him on Election Day.
“I ask all Puerto Ricans who are listening to go vote,” the governor said in an interview on Telemundo. “They have to go to vote, exercise their right to vote and evaluate who has represented being a person who thinks about Puerto Ricans and their needs at the most difficult moment. It is Donald Trump.”
According to the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día, Vázquez Garced was scheduled to appear at a campaign event with Trump in central Florida last Friday, with the governor saying she had been invited to travel on Air Force One to hold a meeting on Puerto Rico.
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“The irony will be that black and Hispanic voters save the country from Upper Middle class whites.”
That is so wrong as to be comical.
Over 90% of blacks will vote Democrat.
66% of Hispanics voted for Clinton.
As usual, it’s up to White men to pull the weight.
The Seinfeld episode that’s rarely shown. If ever, anymore.
Been awhile since I looked, though.
“So....what id PR becomes a state, and gets two senators. This Governor, and two of the last four, are Republicans. Why do we assume that PR’s two senators will be dems?”
It’s the same crowd of pearl-clutchers as always. It’s *always* bad news. Always. They can’t imagine a positive outcome. PR becoming a state in the next few years (assuming Trump is President) could very well cement it as a RED state for the next few decades.
But according to the NNNs here on this site (FR, how you have fallen), the election is *over* and we already lost to a corrupt senile pedophile who campaigned from his basement until two months before the election.
“We’ll have to buy Greenland. That would even things out. :)”
Greenland has - just barely - enough people to qualify for statehood. No guarantee they’d vote Republican, though.
Fun fact: by territory, Denmark is the 3rd largest North American country!
And the sole Congresswoman, and the presidents of both houses of the Territory legislature, as well as a good bunch of other politicians, mayors, etc. are all Republicans. Like a fellow Puerto Rico Ping List member says, Puerto Rico’s politics look more like Louisiana’s than New York’s.
“Not if Puerto Rico keeps voting against statehood.”
Last time they voted *for* statehood. The time before that, the vote was a multipart. First part: stay the same or change it’s relationship with the US; change won. Second part: Statehood, independence or a free association with the US; statehood won a majority at 61%
It doesn’t matter what the turnout was (23% of which 97% voted in favor in the 2017 referendum, 2012 was higher but not overwhelmingly so). Just like it doesn’t matter what the turnout for *any* election is. A President typically receives only about 25% of the possible vote - less, if you consider all the rat cheating that goes on. Anybody that doesn’t vote is presumed to be indifferent. And that last vote is sufficient to justify PR becoming a state. All that needs to happen is a Congressional vote on it.
Alaska, for example, had a turnout of only 25% or so (46,000 of 200,000-ish) when it voted for statehood, and the proportion in favor was only about 85% of the votes. Hawaii’s process was similar, with similar numbers (approval rate was higher).
When I saw this, I had to pinch myself to see whether I was dreaming.
“Puerto Ricans directly rejected statehood at the ballot box in plebiscites held in 1967, 1993, and 1998. In 2012 and 2017, the people rejected the entire process outright, just as DOJ recognized and is why it outright denied the government of Puerto Rico funding for the vote. The U.S. Congress and President Obama in 2014 enacted a law to pay for a vote where all Puerto Ricans would select among “options” to resolve Puerto Rico’s future status. Including only one option on the ballot clearly disenfranchises the majority of voters who do not agree with annexation.”
You are not going to have a very good time of it, if you try to force statehood on Puuerto Ricans.
Remember the FALN bombings in New York, Washington, DC and Chicago. back in the 70’s?
Nobody wants a colonial war in these modern times.
You believe The Hill’s factually incorrect assertions, if you want. I’ll go with the vote tallies.
Obama added a third option to the 2017 referendum to give them “options”. It was part of that 3% that didn’t vote for statehood. It was Obama being anti-American and attempting to divide the vote - what kind of evil empire actually has people voting to *join* it, eh? Often left-of-center, The Hill tries to present the PR statehood question as some sort of American imperialism to bolster *their* narrative and mislead Hispanics.
FALN was a Cuban/Soviet supported terrorist group. Just like many of the other protest and terrorist groups of the time. If you think that was a legit movement, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklynn you might be interested in.
So tell me, where are the Red Brigade, the IRA, FALN, the Weathermen, SLA, the Clamshell Alliance, assorted other separatist and environmental and disarmament/peace movements... Did they win their crusades, or did they lose funding?
The irony will be that black and Hispanic voters save the country from Upper Middle class whites.
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In the upside down world of 2020, anything is possible.
“Doesn’t puerto rico get 0 electoral votes for the president race?”
They don’t vote.
Puerto Ricans in the US/Florida/NY can vote in our elections. People who listened to Spanish radio in 2016 were told that Trump wanted to take citizenship away from them. They have since seen that was a lie. Now many are voting for Trump this year.
Correct.
In the Senate, every Rep seat counts towards a majority, which means we control judicial appointments.
Not so with governors.
True, but Mass isn’t known for sending GOP senators to the Senate.
STATEHOOD, Si!
But... wait...
didn’t he throw “paper towels” at them?
He isn’t the Devil Incarnate?
Good news for the Puerto Rican population in Central “Fluh-Ree-Duh!” Trump needs to win Florida BIGLY!
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