Posted on 03/31/2026 7:43:44 AM PDT by Twotone
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Monday his committee has received information showing the United States' Census Bureau in 2020 miscalculated the number of Americans in a way that cost Republicans multiple House seats.
Comer claimed the basic count was biased against Republicans because the bureau made estimations instead of doing a physical count during the COVID-19 pandemic, and estimated high in Democratic areas like major cities and underestimated in suburban areas known to be more friendly to Republicans.
"The basic count was miscounted grossly in the last census, to the tune of costing the Republicans anywhere from four to five congressional seat," Comer said on the "Just The News, No Noise" TV show. "The fact that we lost [is] because the Census Bureau was biased. If you go back to when the census was taken, the last time it was during COVID, no one knocked on anybody's doors because of COVID. So they ended up estimating.
"They overestimated Democrats in the Democratic areas, which are the urban, rundown communities across America, and they undercounted all the suburban areas, which are the Republicans [fastest] growing areas," he added.
Comer said California, New York and Rhode Island should have lost more House seats than they did and that Florida and Texas should have gained at least one new member of Congress because of an exodus during the pandemic.
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Yes,
When they did not know, they just rely on 2010 census.
Arizona was also supposed to gain a district, but somehow it did not.
Bigtime. Even the US Census bureau admits they “made a mistake” and systematically undercounted red states in 2020.
Americans need to do the same type assaults on the Census taker mafia that the far-left commie RATS did to ICE. Crash our RAM trucks into the census Priuses and have road blocks everywhere. Threaten all food joints that tries to feed the census takers with boycotts.
Census takers are liars.
I’ve been disenfranchised as a US citizen.
Where are my reparations?
Democrats vastly out-populate Republicans in government. Hence, they run the election machinery, having both motive, means, and opportunity to defraud the public in the exercise of those powers. Atheists have no fear of fraud other than getting caught.
Also, illegal aliens should NOT be counted in the census.
This also skews house seats.
“Miscalculated” my a$$!
AZ should have gotten at least 1 seat. Utter shock when it didn’t.
I have always maintained that the biggest failure of the Trump 1 years 2017-2021 was the 2020 census. Starting many years before Covid, the Trump administration should have carefully and thoughtfully planned for the census. But they ran an amateur operation that had no clue what they were doing.
They ‘miscalculated’ a lot of things in 2020.
As always, democrats will end up screwed in 2030, when numbers go back to general head counts. It will give us even more seats.
After stealing the election, they presumed they could forever get away with anything going forward.
and in other news the suns rises from the east...
I mean this has been out there for almost 5 years and nothing has been done about it...
and overcounted blue states..
Are there ANY Federal government statistics which are NOT manipulated for political purposes??
Its a legitimate question.
“miscalculated”
That’s like a Somali Learing Center miscalculating the number of their students.
Yes, it would be nice if there was some way to REQUIRE CORRECTIONS. Right now. Not 2030.
If I recall correctly, this was known years ago and the census people said it couldn’t be fixed. And, the Republicans just accepted it and rolled over as usual. So, this is not new news.
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