By Beth Stebner PUBLISHED: 14:24 EST, 18 March 2012 | UPDATED: 05:42 EST, 20 March 2012 For the second time during the primaries, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has made a blunder about Puerto Rico. On the day Puerto Ricans head to the polls to cast their votes for the nation's next president, Mr Santorum referred to the archipelago as a ‘Spanish-speaking country.’ In fact, Puerto Rico is not a country at all, but an unincorporated territory of the United States. Last week, the former Pennsylvania senator told a Puerto Rican newspaper that the territory’s admittance as the America’s 51st state was contingent on its residents speaking English as its official language.
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Called Puerto Rico 'Spanish-speaking country' though territory is actually unincorperated U.S. commonwealth
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Said last week that territory must declare English as first language to gain statehood status
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Santorum asserts he will get the presidential nomination if he wins Illinois
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However, he trails Romney in polls by an estimated 243 delegates
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Illinois only awards 69 delegate
OK by me in @placeholder: Today, Santorum slipped and called Puerto Rico a Spanish-speaking country