Biden's Census Bureau admits to undercounting 5 Republican states, experts warn of midterm consequences

Although progressives long accused the Trump administration of using dirty tricks to undercount blue-leaning constituencies, a new report has revealed that the United States Census Bureau undercounted five Republican states and overcounted six Democratic states in the 2020 Census.

According to the report, voters from the states that were undercounted – including Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas –all voted for Trump in the last two presidential elections. Meanwhile, that were overcounted include Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah — six of which are Democrat strongholds.

NEW TODAY: #2020Census estimated undercount and overcount rates by state and D.C. from the Post-Enumeration Survey, as well as estimated coverage rates by census operation: https://t.co/s6LFvsYPUn pic.twitter.com/xwgNrg3522

— U.S. Census Bureau (@uscensusbureau) May 19, 2022

As Breitbart previously suggested, this could mean that “voters who twice voted to elect Trump over Democrat candidates were more likely to be undercounted in the 2020 Census than voters who backed Democrats against Trump in the last two elections.”

Ultimately, this could mean serious consequences for the midterm elections because decennial data is used to decide how district lines are redrawn and how various federal funds get distributed, Axios reported.  

Shortly after the report was released, Census Bureau Director Robert Santos released a statement explaining that achieving an accurate count in all 50 states “is always a difficult endeavor.”

“These results suggest it was difficult again in 2020, particularly given the unprecedented challenges we faced,” he added.

But left-leaning pundits were not so quiet when former President Trump suggested including a question about American citizenship on the Census – and the progressive Brookings Institute went as far as accusing him of trying “to hijack” the electoral process and “imperil America’s future.”

Similarly, the Washington Post editorial board charged the Trump administration in March of getting “exactly what it wanted” when the Census Bureau found that minority communities in the United States had been undercounted during the process.

“The Trump administration might have failed in its effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from the U.S. Census. But it still managed to get exactly what it wanted: a less accurate count that diminishes minority communities in the United States,” the editorial board wrote.