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Was Census Count Rigged, Too? Texas, Tennessee, Florida May Have Been Robbed of Congressional Seats

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Was Census Count Rigged, Too? Texas, Tennessee, Florida May Have Been Robbed of Congressional Seats
Balloons at an event to mark the one-year-out launch of the 2020 Census efforts in Boston on April 1, 2019. Brian Snyder/Reuters
Stephen Moore
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A year ago, my colleagues at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and I raised the alarm that there were potential shenanigans with the 2020 census. Based on annual estimates from 2011 to 2020, we alerted that the new decennial census count and subsequent reapportionment were slanted against red states.

Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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