A majority of Puerto Ricans voted Tuesday on a referendum that would admit the island as an official U.S. state, however experts say the issue will not be resolved anytime soon.

This is the sixth time Puerto Ricans had a choice to make on statehood since 1967, but Republican commissioner, Jenniffer González, said she is ready to take this year's referendum results to Congress.

"We're gonna push for this now, but we're gonna push for this in January, as well. ... It doesn't matter who is the president-elect," she told ABC News on Wednesday.

Political scientist and researcher Carlos Vargas Ramos told ABC News he's doubtful that Congress will take up the referendum.

In the 2012 and 2017 referendums, statehood prevailed. But the legitimacy of the results were questioned due to the confusing configuration of the status question and voter turnout.

Vargas Ramos said the referendum was non-binding and turnout is still an issue.

For this year's vote, 1.2 million people out of the island's 2.3 million eligible voters on cast a ballot on the referendum, according to the election commission's website.

1. In this millennium, Democratic presidential candidates are 3-0 when they have a person of color on the ticket; they are 0-3 when they don't. It's an important indicator of a changing America and its diversity.

2. Once again we see an election where independent voters were the deciding factor in picking the winners across America. No longer are we at a point when either party will steal many votes from the other party. It is independents that swung the elections in 2016, 2018 and 2020.

3. The electoral state landscape again continues to shuffle. Democrats and Republicans would be wise to no longer bet on swing states of the past, but invest more in swing states of the present and future.

4. There are many bright lights -- as well as warning signs -- for both parties from this election. Both parties have work to do if they want to emerge as the true majority party from election to election.

5. Finally, and I noted this after the 2018 election, when issues are put on the ballot divorced from a partisan brand, there is an incredible ability to get voters to support policies outside their partisan boxes.

-ABC News Political Analyst Matthew Dowd

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Joe Biden visited the grave of his son Beau after attending church with his family on Sunday morning.

Biden was seen walking with his daughter Ashley and grandson Hunter, Beau’s son, toward Beau’s grave after departing church in Wilmington, Delaware, just before 11:30 a.m., according to a pool report.

This was the first time Biden visited his son's grave since Election Day.

The year 2020 has been one of the most tumultuous in history -- with a pandemic, an economic collapse, a searing racial reckoning and wild leadership out of the Oval Office.

Biden launched his campaign as a battle for the "soul of America." Winning, though, doesn't come close to ending that battle -- and will test both Biden and his fellow Americans through what promises to be a tense period in the nation and beyond.

Biden's first statement as president-elect sought to strike a note of unity.

"Democracy beats deep in the heart of America," he said in the statement released by his campaign. "With the campaign over, it's time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation. It's time for America to unite. And to heal."

-ABC News Political Director Rick Klein

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Biden warns of 'dark winter' ahead as he lays out COVID-19 plan, calls for unity on masks

President-elect Joe Biden in his first solo remarks to Americans since his victory speech over the weekend reminded Americans of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as cases and hospitalizations rise across the country, and said the country is “still facing a very dark winter” before offering his plan to combat it.

"We are ready to get to work addressing the needs of the American people. Today, that work begins," Biden said from The Queen Theater in Wilmington Delaware, following a briefing with his newly-announced COVID-19 advisory board. "It starts with doing everything possible to get the COVID-19 under control, so that we can reopen our businesses safely and sustainably, resume our lives, put this pandemic behind us."

While he praised the announcement from Pfizer Monday morning that the company has a vaccine in trial that looks "90% effective in preventing COVID-19," Biden reminded that even if the vaccine is approved, it will not be widely available for months. He went on to urge all Americans, regardless of whether they voted for him, to "end the politicization of basic responsible public health steps."

"This election is over. It’s time to put aside the partisanship and the rhetoric that’s designed to demonize one another," Biden said, reminding Americans to keep social distancing and wearing a mask.

"Doesn't matter who you voted for, whether you stood, where you stood before election day, doesn't matter your party, your point of view. We can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months. Not Democrat or Republican lives, American lives," he added. "A mask is not a political statement but it is a good way to start pulling the country together."

After pledging to rejoin the World Health Organization on "Day One," Biden also said his advisory board will include experts on global health security, "so that we can restore U.S. global leadership to fight this pandemic" -- in sharp contrast to Trump's isolationist approach to the virus and general policy.