Democrats refuse to give up on the idea that the Trump administration’s push to change the Census to count the number of citizens—rather than just persons—in each congressional district was a plot to elect more Republicans. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform, chaired by Upper East Side representative Carolyn Maloney, put it this way in a report released last Wednesday: “The Trump Administration secretly tried to manipulate the census for political gain while lying to the public and Congress about their goals.”
Of course, one can’t discount the possibility that Republicans wanted to elect more of their own by manipulating how congressional districts are drawn. Both parties do this, as New York Democrats did in their failed attempt to gerrymander the state’s congressional map this year.
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