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Puerto Ricans get spotlight in Florida Gubernatorial and Senate races

Puerto Ricans get spotlight in Florida Gubernatorial and Senate races

Posted by | Oct 15, 2018 | , | 0 |

With competitive races for both Governor and US Senate in Florida, the Democratic and Republican candidates alike are pursuing the votes of the Puerto Rican community as the key to winning the contested seats. Nearly 1.1 million Puerto Ricans live in Florida, likely making up almost half a million of the state’s 13 million registered voters. Florida was a top destination for Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria, and while many are returning to the territory, there is evidence that a large number of displaced families intend to stay on the mainland long-term. Governor Race Democratic candidate for governor...

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Lacking full representation, residents of US territories prepare to vote in 2018

Lacking full representation, residents of US territories prepare to vote in 2018

Posted by | Oct 11, 2018 | , | 0 |

They may not be sending voting representatives to Congress, or be able to vote for president, but thousands of residents in most United States territories are gearing up to go to the polls in November. Though the territories may have different electoral systems and levels of self-governance, nearly all will have elections on November 6, in just under a month. United States Virgin Islands Stacey Plaskett (D) is running unopposed to continue serving as the non-voting territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives for the United States Virgin Islands, but the governor’s race is far from uncontested. Seven...

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Trump revives Puerto Rico status debate

Trump revives Puerto Rico status debate

Posted by | Sep 26, 2018 | , | 0 |

President Trump has come out against statehood for Puerto Rico, citing his feud with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (PDP, D) as well as negative media coverage of the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria disaster relief. “Instead of getting thank you, we got nothing but bad publicity,” Trump told Geraldo Rivera in a radio interview on Monday. The president also took the opportunity to call Cruz “incompetent,” and a “horror show,” appeared to not remember her name, and asserted that Puerto Ricans “shouldn’t be talking about statehood until they get some people that really know what they’re...

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