'A colony is incompatible with democracy': AOC leads new push for Puerto Rico statehood

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12. The PR Governor since January caucused with the Democrats when a delegate to the House

Though neither of Puerto Rico’s two major political parties have official affiliations on the mainland, members of the PNP traditionally caucused with Republicans on the Hill. But because the island relied on federal funding and because mainland progressives tended to support Puerto Rico’s calls for statehood, Pierluisi was more ideologically aligned with the Democratic Caucus than the Republican Conference. Like every other statutory representative at the time, Pierluisi caucused with the Democrats. Pierluisi won re-election in 2012 against Robert Cox Alomar of the PPD with 48.4 percent of the vote.

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He is not a supporter of Trump: