Eighteen

No, this is what we do. 51=17x3. 52=26x2. 53, however is a prime number so it can't be divided.

We make PR a state, Guam, and DC.

AND WE BECOME.... One nation, indivisible.

God you can't even have colonies anymore, another victim of wokeness

But that would shift the election in favour of the Democrats...

Yes - if the GOP can't survive more proportional representation, they shouldn't.

They can become a state if they want to. They have voted against it in the past.

My understanding is that many Puerto Ricans don't even want statehood.

Just take statehood away from North Dakota and give it to PR so we can keep the number of stars and stripes.

I honestly don’t think this would ever get support. Puerto Rico is very republican last I checked so dems aren’t exactly incentivized to vote it in. And republicans don’t want it because that would be fair treatment to a minority so

A better way to say is Puerto Rico has more US citizens than 18 US States. If the goal is to piss off maga that is.

This page from 2020 says 20

https://puertoricoreport.com/population-puerto-rico-exceeds-populations-21-states/

I am surprised conservatives don’t want to add PR as a state, Republicans would definitely get more reps voting along religious lines in congress

Kamala should seize on this and say she'd push for statehood, if not for anything other than to watch Republicans say they would oppose it.

Surprised at 18, but guess it's not that surprising.

why not oppose US colonialism and support Puerto Rican independence instead of statehood?

i thought this would be a reference to the Alice Cooper song. but yeah, I support statehood for Puerto Rico.

If we really cared about PR we would have pushed for this a long time ago. This is news because of a joke but we live in the united states of amnesia, by next monday this will all be forgotten.

Puerto rico should be finally freed from the the chains of the united states. Only the white man is free in the US and seems like this still holds true.

DC also has more people than 2 states. Basically if you take the top 52 subdivisions of the US by population, the only 2 that aren't states "just so happen" to be the two with the highest minority populations.

It would be more democratic if Puerto Rico had the same congressional representation as a state. Same with DC. Also, maybe the number of senators for every state should be proportional to population, again to make things more democratic.

Does anyone support this at the federal level currently?

Didn't they recently vote to not become a state?

puerto rico is a colony

Never happen. If it got enough support from the people, it would make it to the supreme court and be blocked