Hillary Clinton says she supports statehood for DC

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says she’ll fight to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state if she’s elected president.
Clinton wrote about her support for District statehood in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Washington Informer, an African-American newspaper. She says it’s unfair that the District’s 672,000 residents lack voting representation in Congress.
President Barack Obama did not publicly announce his support for District statehoo