Who would be Puerto Rico's first senators?

[GALeftist]

Title, assuming Puerto Rico's referendum is in favor of statehood and Congress admits it by the end of 2021, who would its senators be? For the GOP, I assume Jenniffer Gonzalez and Governor Wanda Vazquez Garced would be frontrunners. For the Dems it's a little more hairy since the local center-left party is anti statehood, but I feel like Charlie Rodriguez and Pedro Pierluisi (if he decides to leave the governor's mansion, which he's running for in 2020) would be frontrunners. Thoughts?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

AOC and Sonia Sotomayor.

More seriously, I imagine they’d put up someone from the PPD and someone from the PNP, in addition to one Democrat and one Republican. Mainland Dems would love Carmen Yulín Cruz but I don’t think she’s as beloved on the island as she is here.

[Vosem]

Jenniffer Gonzalez seems very obvious as one of them, given that she's the incumbent Resident Commissioner and quite popular. I don't know who the other one would be but I'd imagine there'd be a lot of resistance to a second Republican.

[7,052,770]

Jenniffer Gonzalez seems very obvious as one of them, given that she's the incumbent Resident Commissioner and quite popular. I don't know who the other one would be but I'd imagine there'd be a lot of resistance to a second Republican.

What's going to happen is that Democrats will admit Puerto Rico because it's the right thing to do regardless of politics, PR will send a Democrat and Gonzalez, and Republicans will spend weeks mocking Democrats about how their Senate pack backfired, even though it was never intended as a pack in the first place...

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Jenniffer Gonzalez seems very obvious as one of them, given that she's the incumbent Resident Commissioner and quite popular. I don't know who the other one would be but I'd imagine there'd be a lot of resistance to a second Republican.

What's going to happen is that Democrats will admit Puerto Rico because it's the right thing to do regardless of politics, PR will send a Democrat and Gonzalez, and Republicans will spend weeks mocking Democrats about how their Senate pack backfired, even though it was never intended as a pack in the first place...

Yeah, and I can see the state essentially being a swing vote that the Republicans blow due to how they handle it.

[Samof94]

Who will be it’s first representatives??? I am picturing a Mississippi sized delegation.

[Nutmeg]

Do we know, though, whether the parties on the ballot would be D/R or PNP/PDP?

Also Vázquez just lost the PNP gubernatorial primary, so this could have some bearing on her standing in a Republican primary.

[S019]

Gonzalez makes sense, though she could stay in the House as well and run for one of the CD's. I do think that Puerto Rico as a state will be open to splitting its ticket for Senate while being solidly Democratic on the presidential level and that local politics will win out over national politics in many races. As for the other Senator, probably a Democrat, though I'm not sure who.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Pedro Pierluisi?