Jasmine Crockett's Remarks on the Census and Congressional Seats Has Jaws Dropping

The House Oversight Committee held a hearing on the problems in the US Census on Thursday.

Chairman James Comer (R-KY) pointed out how the errors in the 2020 Census -- surprise! -- tended to benefit the Democrats.

🚨 Chairman Comer (@RepJamesComer) Opens Hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau

“The Census Bureau’s Post-Enumeration Survey—which measures Census count accuracy—revealed significant errors in 14 states. These errors predominantly benefited Democratic-leaning states in… pic.twitter.com/H6iWNQ3gmx
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) December 5, 2024

“The Census Bureau’s Post-Enumeration Survey—which measures Census count accuracy—revealed significant errors in 14 states. These errors predominantly benefited Democratic-leaning states in the allocation of congressional seats and electoral college votes.
“In contrast to the 2020 census, no states were found to have had such errors in the 2010 census.
"In 2020, the Post-Enumeration Survey suggests that there were overcounts in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Delaware, Minnesota, Utah, and Ohio. And there were undercounts in Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Illinois.
“Six of the eight states benefiting from overcounts tended to favor Democrats in awarding congressional apportionment and electoral college votes.
“Meanwhile, five of the six states that were unfairly penalized by undercounts tended to vote for Republicans. [....]
“Based on the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey, it is likely that miscounts caused Colorado to gain a seat it would not have gained otherwise, and for Rhode Island and Minnesota to each keep a seat they would have lost.
Meanwhile, Texas and Florida likely should have each gained a seat.
“It is imperative that we understand what went wrong in the 2020 census and take action to mitigate the risk of those similar errors in the 2030 census.”

One problem is that illegal aliens and non-citizens are counted in the Census, so that means they can have an impact on votes. It's something that seriously needs to be addressed, to accord proper representation per state.

But Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) had a comment during the hearing with the Director of the Census Bureau that was something else. While she hasn't been in office that long, only since Jan. 2023, she's already gotten a reputation for her Congressional rants. In November, she had a viral rant where she claimed that there has been "no oppression for the white man in this country."

Her comment during this hearing was also centered around race.

Crockett spoke about the Census numbers in Texas, saying that four million people were added in the 2020 count, but only 180,000 were "Anglos."

Rep. ⁦@JasmineForUS⁩: Since 2020 Texas added 4 million people — only 180k of whom were “anglos” — and Republicans took these “black, brown & Asian Bodies” & added 2 “new white seats” to Congress pic.twitter.com/K0FhZkfsFh
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 5, 2024

She argued that most of the people added were "people of color," and Texas added two new seats:

So they took those black and brown and Asian bodies. And do you think we got a new black, brown, or Asian seat? Somehow, the way they do their Republican math in the state of Texas, that amounted to two new white seats. Guess what? White Republican seats. We got two new Republican seats. Out of 4 million people of color. Let me tell you, they love to use our bodies to apportion us in an inaccurate way.

Oh, my. Where to start with that? Talk about disgusting language. Many people thought what she was saying was racist.

Let's start with the fact that we don't have seats based on race in this county. There's no such thing as a "white seat" or a "black seat." People win their seats by the vote of the people. Americans of all races vote for people of all races. And surprise, lots of people of color vote for Republicans.

Maybe she and the Democrats could take a lesson from that and the recent election -- that people of all races want answers and solutions; they voted with the belief the Republicans are going to be better for that. Many people of color voted for President-elect Donald Trump. Trump did historically well, as CNN's Harry Enten pointed out.

Trump's mandate:

1. More states (49 + DC) swung in his direction vs. last election than anyone since 1992.
2. Best GOP showing w/ age 18-29 in 20 yrs, Black voters in 48 yrs, Hispanics in 52+ yrs.
3. Coattails: best GOP showing in House popular vote in prez year since 1928. pic.twitter.com/xDEjHVJFAm
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 8, 2024

Many voters also rejected the divisive, identity politics of the Democrats, like what Crockett is pushing.

I think she was trying to make a point about gerrymandering. If she wants to rectify errors in apportionment, she should support the Republicans' effort to have an accurate count. But I don't expect her to do that anytime soon.