Democrats latest awful idea: adding new states to lock in Senate control forever By Michael Barone

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 Democrats latest awful idea: adding new states to lock in Senate control forever

By Michael Barone

September 18, 2020 | 8:32pm

What happens if, as seems much more likely now than it did a year or six months ago, Democrats overturn the Republican majority in the Senate?

No clear answer yet, but NBC News reports Democratic senators have set up a “war room” to enable them to abolish the filibuster and quickly pass a Biden-Harris agenda. Other Democrats have urged that a Democratic Congress admit new states to the Union to have a view to blocking a Republican majority forever.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has a political incentive to back such extreme moves. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could challenge him in 2022, and the 2018 and 2020 results show an ­increasingly radical primary electorate in New York.

A Democratic sweep this fall might well produce statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. And possibly for the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern ­Mariana Islands.

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[Fishrrman]

I'll say it flat out:
The 600,000 or so residents of the District of Columbia DO NOT DESERVE to be "a state". They do not rate that.

If they wish to be associated "with a state", affiliate them (as citizen/residents) with Maryland, and they'll perhaps gain ONE representative as such (I don't know if 600,000 citizens rate a "full rep").

Puerto Rico -- NEVER.
It was a serious mistake to NOT give P.R. independence in the early 1950's.
They should continue to get "the status quo", or be offered full independence today...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

That is a guaranteed way to force some states to leave the US.  Texas for sure, then followed by others

[skeeter]

The point is if given the chance the rats are gonna game the system to make certain they are never forced to compete for votes again. Just like in California.

[jmyrlefuller]

Let upstate New York be its own state. Then we'll talk.

[dfwgator]

Let upstate New York be its own state. Then we'll talk.

They can just make Puerto Rico part of New York.