DC should NEVER become a state. They are tax recipients…not generators and doncha just love your intent of “to get around the district clause in the Constitution”. This is a totally corrupt suggestion that is intended for no other reason except to swing the honest pendulum…permanently to one direction.
Desperation is setting in. Libs know as long as their penned in there left-wing stronghold/enclave they know they can’t rule over free people of America.
2 new reliably democratic states is 4 new senators
right now washington dc has 3 electoral votes. Im assuming puerto rico would also have 3 but they may have more i havent calculated how many they would get
I would retrocede the District of Columbia (minus a carved out Capital Service Area) to Maryland as the County of Columbia, Maryland. It would be a consolidated City/County until and unless Maryland decided to reorganize it otherwise. The residents of the district then would be able to vote for Maryland Senators and have their own Congressman.
I would schedule a mandatory plebiscite for Puerto Rico with two and ONLY two choices.
We should consolidate the entire northern plains into one big state of nothingness and give them half of one senator. California should also get 10 Senators at this point.
thats why come 2020 when teh dems take back everything they should just go ahead and make PR a state.
let the GOP cry all they want,thats 2 more democratic senators plus an unknow number of reps.