CNN: Census Targeting States Biden Won, GOP Gains By Gerrymandering

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 26, 2021
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It’s the constitutional duty of the Census Bureau to track the population growth and shifts between the states and appropriate House seats accordingly, which feeds into the Electoral College calculation (House seats plus Senate seats). But according to the suggestions of CNN Prime Time host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo and fellow CNN host Michael Smerconish, the bureau helping Republicans exclusively and increasing their disproportionate representation in U.S. politics.

With an on-screen headline that dubiously read “Census Shifts 3 House Seats from States Biden Won,” Fredo came back from a commercial break projecting a suspicious tone.

Did you hear about the Census Bureau and what the census is going to do? It's going to shift some of the seats this Congress. It’s going to make a difference, especially for the left. The House is about to get real skinny real fast,” he warned his viewers.

Flaunting his meager grasp of the subject matter, Fredo began suggesting the Census Bureau was taking away blue “states” from President Biden and the Democrats.

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