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CNN commentator Van Jones said the Puerto Rican vote has been “lit on fire” in Pennsylvania after a comedian at a former President Trump rally made a joke about the island. “There is an energy.
More than half of the nearly 580,000 eligible Latino voters in Pennsylvania are of Puerto Rican descent. ... Just over half of Latinos turned out to vote in Pennsylvania in the last presidential ...
In Pennsylvania, where Puerto Rican-Americans represent the largest population growth of the last several years, Latinos favor Harris by 33 points –above the mark that Democrats traditionally ...
Biden's campaign is appealing to Puerto Rican voters in swing states like Pennsylvania as Harris visits the island for the first time as vice president.
Puerto Ricans cannot vote in general elections despite being U.S. citizens, but they can exert a powerful influence with relatives on the mainland. Phones across the island of 3.2 million people were ringing minutes after the speaker derided the U.S. territory Sunday night, and they still buzzed Monday.
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However, Puerto Rico's governing New Progressive Party praised the island's vote for statehood, in which over half of the electorate cast a vote. The option for statehood achieved a majority of the vote with 600,799 votes, followed by free association with 304,955 votes, and independence with 126,630 votes.
On October 17, 2006, Pedro Rosselló, a former governor of Puerto Rico, and the Unfinished Business of American Democracy Committee on behalf of the approximately four million U.S. citizens residing in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, presented a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States ...