A mural depicting Puerto Rican and US flags is seen in Lorain ... “If we win 1 or 2 points more than we did in 2016 that puts” states like Ohio “out of reach” for Democrats, he said.

The island has a nonvoting member of Congress but no voting representatives or senators, as states have. Puerto Rico has given its residents the opportunity to express their opinion on the island ...

The same referendum procedure last occurred in the 1950s, when the people of Alaska and Hawaii were asked whether they wanted to become US states. Until 1898, Spain ruled Puerto Rico ...