Trump trolling Canada as 51st state could boost Democrats with 'blue-state behemoth'

President-elect Donald Trump is keeping up his push to make Canada the United States' 51st state.

"Canada and the United States. That would really be something," Trump said Tuesday at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. "They should be a state."

Trump highlighted that if Canada were to join the U.S., it wouldn't be by using military force but instead through "economic force."

A day earlier, the president-elect argued in a social media post that "many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State.