Republicans must engage with a swing voting bloc the party misunderstands: Puerto Ricans, the second-largest Hispanic voting bloc in the U.S. To start winning these voters back, Republicans must stop attacking Puerto Rican statehood. On July 15, the Puerto Rico Statehood Council, which I chair, released a new poll on Hispanic and Puerto Rican voters conducted by McLaughlin and Associates, President Trump's own pollster. Advertisement AdvertisementThe poll makes clear that the voters most impacted by candidates supporting Puerto Rico statehood are Republican, not Democratic, voters. The obstacle for the Republican Party to sustainably winning Puerto Rican voters has never been ideology. José Fuentes is a former attorney general of Puerto Rico and chairman of the Puerto Rico Statehood Council.