President Donald Trump's announcement ordering a redo or update of the 2020 census wasn't a shock-and-awe move, even though there are mutinous ravings from the save democracy crowd over at the Democrat headquarters. No, he's deadly serious, and there's a huge reason for it: The numbers don't lie.
On Thursday, he announced on TruthSocial that he "instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern-day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024." He concluded, "People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS."
You already know why President Autopen let millions of strangers into the country. The idea, of course, was to erase our borders and let in the third world and the left's favorite terrorists, but also to change the census count. The census count changes the apportionment of congressional seats and, therefore, affects electoral votes.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is exactly right when he said this week that Democrats "stole 20 or 30 House seats by counting illegal aliens in the census, and now you have Democrats talking about, 'Oh, Republicans can't change their congressional maps!'"
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If Democrats weren't advantaged by illegal immigration, they'd be as hard-line against it as Nancy Pelosi sounded back in 2008 when she was attempting to play gotcha politics against George W. Bush.
"...we certainly don't want any more coming in." Nancy Pelosi in 2008 on illegal immigrants. #BorderCrisis #SecureTheBorder pic.twitter.com/xc1axi02ES
— Independent Women's Voice (@IWV) July 22, 2019
Now, of course, Democrats want to give every illegal alien free housing, insurance, and a fuzzy puppy. "And, oh, can you sign this voter registration form in this congressional district? Yeah, thanks."
That's one of the reasons that Donald Trump needed a margin of victory that he called "too big to rig."
Miller says this is why Democrats are wailing over Texas Republicans wanting to redraw congressional lines based on the census and huge numbers of people pouring into the state since Democrat governors went full autocrat during COVID. They'd win more seats because there are more Republicans. Duh. To the victor go the spoils.
Moreover, "You have literally brought invaders into this country by the tens of millions to RIG the results of the census, and the apportionment of congressional seats!" Miller told Newsmax.
🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Miller just went on a fiery rampage against Democrats for stealing dozens of House seats by counting illegal aliens in the Census - and then they complain about redistricting.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 8, 2025
"Just think about that for a second. They stole 20 or 30 House seats by counting… pic.twitter.com/a7Nj76L9Rl
But the story doesn't begin or end there.
As I pointed out on my Adult in the Room Podcast on Thursday, the Census Bureau miscounted for the first time in its history by so much that in the 2024 election, Kamala Harris got six more electoral votes than she should have, while President Trump was denied another nine electoral votes for a total swing of 14 electoral votes.
I wrote about it last November in the story Did Trump #Resisters Try to Rig the 2024 Election?
The Census Bureau corrected its mistake two years after the election.
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Stephen Miller put it this way:
And then on top of that, of course, you have a situation where even though Republicans won a landslide in the House popular vote, Democrats have so thoroughly rigged and gerrymandered and manipulated their districts beyond all recognition that Republicans only gained a 4-seat majority, despite winning a much smaller majority in the popular vote in 2010 and getting 63 seats.
Maybe that's what Joe Biden meant when he said Democrats had "the best voter fraud organization in American politics." And he was right.
Biden admitted to the fraud we see happening now in this video: “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization in the history of American politics”
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) November 4, 2020
They already had this planned..... pic.twitter.com/1Z4VWPSVKV
That's why Democrats are doing Democracy Dies in Darkness boogaloo now. Never before has a president of the United States had the intestinal fortitude to fight this hard for the voting rights of citizens and to right the wrongs of the past.
Hans von Spakovsky points out in his Heritage Foundation study that the "shocking" mistakes of the 2020 Census did not occur in the 2010 Census.
[The 2020] mistakes were costly to certain states in terms of congressional representation, number of electors, and money those states are likely to receive from the federal government during the next decade. To put the scope of these mistakes into perspective, contrast the errors in the Census Bureau’s latest recount (the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey, or PES) with the recount from a decade ago (the 2010 Post-Enumeration Survey)—in which there was a net overcount of a mere 0.01 percent (36,000 people), a statistically insignificant error. [emphasis added]
Spakovsky points out the downstream effects:
[A]s a result of these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats and Texas did not receive one more congressional seat. Meanwhile, two other states, Minnesota and Rhode Island, each retained a congressional seat that they should have lost, and Colorado gained a new seat to which it was rightfully not entitled.
The harms flowing from these mistakes impact more than just congressional representation, which also affects the number of electors from those states since they are calculated by the number of Senators and Representatives in each state.
Those errors affected $1.5 TRILLION in funding to the state affected.
Now, do you get a clear picture of why illegal immigration changes everything?
