The renewed push for Washington, D.C., to become a state is couched in the language of enfranchising voters, but the primary objective is adding two safe Democratic Senate seats.

Since Washington was granted three electoral votes for the 1964 election, it has voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidate. The closest any Republican has come to winning the city was when Richard Nixon won 49 states in 1972. In his landslide victory, he barely topped 21% in D.C. Democrats have landed over 90% of the city’s voters in the last three presidential elections.