Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York called for a less “flawed” census to dictate U.S. congressional districts.
“I think no doubt it would be better if, after the Census every 10 years, every state in a fair and reasonable way redrew its lines, but it doesn’t really work that way,” York said on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy. “The best way to do it, even though it’s a flawed way, has been to do it on the basis of the Census every year.”
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York’s analysis comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) unveiled a plan to redraw California’s congressional district map, giving Democrats five additional seats in the House of Representatives. The plan would only apply to the 2026, 2028, and 2030 elections and is modeled after a recently passed proposal in Texas, backed by President Donald Trump, to add five more seats for Republicans.
“Republicans say that the 2020 Census was messed up. In fact, in 2022, the Census Bureau admitted that it had undercounted six states and overcounted eight states. Among the undercounted states were mostly red states, including Texas and Florida. Among the overcounted states were blue states, including Massachusetts and New York,” York said.
BYRON YORK NOTES CALIFORNIA VALUES ‘ON THE SHELF’ DURING REDISTRICTING FIGHT
“Listen to Democrats, they’ll say the people in Texas are doing it entirely for Donald Trump. I do believe that is part of it, but it’s also part that they think that they were kind of screwed in the 2020 Census,” York said.
President Donald Trump instructed the Department of Commerce to conduct a new census immediately, this time demanding that illegal immigrants not be counted in the data.