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According to Fox News:
Puerto Rico's governor announced that the U.S. territory has overwhelmingly chosen statehood in a nonbinding referendum Sunday held amid a deep economic crisis that has sparked an exodus of islanders to the U.S. mainland.
Nearly half a million votes were cast for statehood, more than 7,600 for free association/independence and nearly 6,700 for independence, according to preliminary results. The participation rate was just 23 percent with roughly 2.26 million registered voters, leading opponents to question the validity of a vote that several parties had boycotted.
Also covered by AP.
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All of life is a blur of Republicans and meat!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 12 2017, @12:05PM
Some of that is minor case of Trump Derangement Syndrome in that you have to get past Congress first
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_Union [wikipedia.org]
In the case of PR, given that it is PR, I could see the situation going to the Supreme Court regardless who's prez or who's running congress, so essentially you'll have to get past all three branches.