By John McPhaul
Ángel Cintrón, the Republican Party chairman in Puerto Rico, said the national party intends to send the message to the 4,000,000 Puerto Rican voters in the United States that the GOP is the party of family values.
“Latinos by their nature are conservative, and we are going to appeal to them as the party of family values,” Cintrón said in an interview with the STAR.
In an interview last waeek with the STAR, Natascha Otero-Santiago, the Democratic Party vice chair of Hispanic outreach, said the party intended to send the message to Boricuas that Donald Trump is a danger to U.S. democracy.
Cintrón responded by saying “I respect her point of view, but we are going to run as the party that offers good government, and will bring economic prosperity to the people.”
The GOP also plans to put Puerto Rican statehood front and center of the campaign, added Cintrón, who is also the New Progressive Party (NPP) point man on Republican Party affairs.
Even though the Republicans left statehood out of the party platform this year, Cintrón insisted that the party remains committed to statehood.
“Statehood is mentioned prominently in the Republican Party Rules,” he said.
The rules state that Puerto Rico will have 20 delegates at the party convention, but that if it becomes a state in the interim, it will have delegates in the same proportion as other states.
As for the Puerto Rico governor’s race, Cintrón said Boricuas will have a clear choice between statehood represented by NPP candidate Jenniffer González Colón and independence represented by Juan Dalmau Ramírez of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), who is running for governor as part of an “Alliance” ticket with the Citizen Victory Movement.
Cintrón discounted the possibility that Popular Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate Jesús Manuel Ortiz González poses a threat.
Ortiz has consistently polled behind Dalmau, the first time in history, he said, that the PDP candidate for governor has polled behind the PIP candidate.
“This is the beginning of the end of the PDP,” Cintrón said.
“They still have support in pockets such as Carolina and Caguas, but they have lost a lot of support at the island level,” he said.
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