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The democratic rights of the 3.5 million americans of puerto rico and give virtually all power on that island to a seven-member board. we must not allow that to happen. >> of course, the bill passed anyway. thanks, obama. but i still miss you. do i understand this right that you can represent puerto rico but you don't have a voting share. >> that's right. more or less like everything that congress does with puerto rico. for example, we don't have congressmen. but we have a nonvoting delegate. we have a guy that gets to go there and complain, yet he can't do anything about it. >> he gets to be ...

Thoughts on the bill. >> the united states of america should not treat puerto rico as a colony. we cannot and must not take away the democratic rights of the 3.5 million americans of puerto rico and give virtually all power on that island to a seven-member board. we must not allow that to happen. ♪ >> of course, the bill passed anyway. thanks, obama. but i still miss you. you can represent puerto rico on the board, but you don't have a voting share. >> that's right, more or less like everything that congress does with puerto rico. for example, we don't have congressman, but we have a non-vot...

Thoughts on the bill. >> the united states of america should not treat puerto rico as a colony. we cannot and must not take away the democratic rights of the 3.5 million americans of puerto rico and give virtually all power on that island to a seven-member board. we must not allow that to happen. ♪ >> of course, the bill passed anyway. thanks, obama. i still miss you. you can represent puerto rico on the board, but you don't have a voting share. >> that's right, more or less like everything that congress does with puerto rico. >> for example, we don't have congressmen, but we have a non-voti...

Him. >> except we live in a republic, not a democracy. and we allocate based on voting share. so yes, he got a majority of the delegates but also delegates at the convention who had every opportunity by the rules of the party to affirm this and make sure this was the candidate they wanted and reince priebus and paul ryan who presided over that convention decided, we're not going to allow that to happen and shouted down mike lee and ken kuchinelli who wanted an open hearing. do we understand the road we're going down? they made this bet, so now we have to sleep in it. >> we have to acknowledge,...

Karl rove has an op-ped in the "wall street journal" which i think is timed as a nudge to the house republican caucus where he says, "look, the reality is the nonwhite voting share of the vote will keep growing. if the gop leaves nonwhite voters to the democrats, its margins in safe congressional districts and red states will dwindle not overnight but over years and decades." there's a lot made of the census numbers that this was in 2012, the first year when the white population decreased while other racial categories increase. the writing is on the wall. like, everyone understands. everyone u...