By the way, if D.C. if they were likely to vote Republican, you would see democrats saying making D.C. a state is Jim Crow. Yeah. Puerto Rico is actually a little more complicated because Puerto Rico has elected Republicans. The Democrats assume Puerto Rico will elect two Democrat senators. They might be right, but they might be wrong. If Puerto Rico became a state, we would fight and vigorously contest it. I don't know if we could prevail on that or not. (29:17–29:25)
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Asserts that Democrats assume Puerto Rico will elect Democratic senators if it becomes a state.
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