Trump and his pack of would-be 2020 Democratic opponents trade fire over disaster relief for Puerto Rico, another issue — statehood — is looming large for the island’s diaspora
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“Presidential candidates should pay close attention if they are interested in Florida,” said Harold Ickes, a former White House deputy chief of staff under President Bill Clinton who helped fund the poll. “How the island is treated, especially on the statehood issue, can be very influential with Puerto Ricans.”
In the poll, 53 percent of respondents said they took a candidate’s position on statehood personally, agreeing with this sentence: “The inferior treatment by Republicans and Democrats in Congress to Puerto Ricans in the Island is a reflection of what they think of me as a Puerto Rican in Florida.”Puerto Ricans in Florida now number nearly 1.13 million, a population that exceeds New York’s boricua community.
Not everyone buys the poll. Phillip Arroyo, an Orlando commentator who favors Puerto Rican independence, said he’s lost faith in public opinion surveys and questioned the sincerity of pro-statehood forces.
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