By Joe Concha
Outside of the handling of COVID-19 and the limp cover-up of former President Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline, “errors” in the 2020 census are the biggest scandal of the 21st century.
“Errors” appear in scare quotes here for good reason. That census was so botched that it can rightly be questioned as international. Why? Because every “error” goes in the direction of favoring the Democratic Partyand serving as a detriment to Republicans.
Overall, according to the Census Bureau’s own audit, almost every state that was “miscounted” — again, scare quotes for emphasis — had a positive impact for Democrats. Blue states, including New York, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Hawaii, were overcounted, while red states, including Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, were undercounted.
According to a 2030 appropriation forecast study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University, Florida and Texas, both solid red states, are gaining four House seats each, while deep-blue states, including California, New York, and Illinois, are losing a combined eight.
And it only gets worse for Democrats: Georgia, North Carolina, Utah, Arizona, and Idaho, all states won by Trump in 2020, would gain one seat, while swing states such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania would lose one seat, along with the most liberal states in the country, Minnesota, Oregon, and Wisconsin, all losing one seat as well.
As for the Electoral College, Florida, Texas, Utah, Idaho, North Carolina, and Georgia, all Trump 2024 states, would gain a combined 11 electoral votes, while California, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Minnesota would lose 10 seats. Toss-ups Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states won by Trump in 2016 and 2024 but lost in 2020, would also lose one electoral vote each.
Shake it all out, and Democrats would be forced to sweep the Rust Belt of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin and win some states in the Sun Belt — North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada — to win a presidential election. Good luck with that, especially if the party embraces another California nominee, such as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) or former Vice President Kamala Harris, or a far-left socialist such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), all of whom are currently running as the most likely nominees in the betting markets and most polls. And if the states were counted properly in 2020, Trump would have gained nine electoral votes in 2024, making the final tally Trump 341, Harris 215.
And then there’s the profoundly backward, and arguably corrupt, rule of including those in the country illegally as part of the census. It’s a common-sense question: If they’re not legal citizens, why are they being legally counted? If an undocumented immigrant theoretically can’t vote, why should it be legally counted?
These are questions for the Supreme Court to tackle. But in the meantime, here’s how it’s playing out in the court of public opinion: According to a recent poll by Rasmussen Reports, 56% strongly or somewhat approve of a new census being conducted, while just 32% strongly or somewhat disapprove. Regarding counting illegal immigrants in the census, 52% said no, while just 36% said yes, and 11% are not sure.
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— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) February 11, 2026
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