@sutieday:
Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly in favor of statehood on Sunday in a referendum that begins the steps toward sending representatives to Washington, D.C.
According to the Wall Street Journal, 97 percent voted for statehood, though turnout was only about 23 percent. One and a half percent voted for independence from the United States, according to Decision Desk HQ, while 1.3 percent voted to keep the current status of a territory of the United States.
Hahaha Trumpkins! A new Democrat state coming! Republicans will never win again!!! HAHAHA!
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/337347-puerto-rico-votes-in-favor-of-statehood
3 electoral votes for Puerto Rico would not mean diddly squat. By the way, the reason Puerto Rico now wants to be a state is because they are bankrupt.
Trump won the 2016 election with 306 to 232 electoral votes. When you factor in the electors that flipped, that comes to (306 -3 + 5) to (232 + 2 -5) or 308 to 229.. a difference of 79 electoral votes. Trump got 35% more electoral votes than Hillary, which is astonishing because all the polls had her winning by 20%. A gap of 55%! Looks like the polls were quite WRONG.
Anyway.. take you 3 electoral votes and stuff them. he won by 79 electoral votes.
It's interesting that the big push for electors to change their votes backfired. Eight electors attempted to flip their vote from Hillary - with 5 succeeding. Three electors attempted to flip their votes from Trump - with 2 succeeding and 1 more that resigned rather than cast a vote that nobody got.