2020 Census “Disproportionately” Hurt Red States

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:00pm- At least fifty-one Texas House Democrats fled the state as part of an effort to deny the Texas House a quorum—effectively preventing a vote on redistricting while also prolonging a vote on providing financial relief for families impacted by last month’s devastating floods that killed more than 120 people. In response, Governor Greg Abbott has argued that fleeing the state to prevent the legislative process simply because you don’t like the expected outcome of an upcoming vote amounts to an “abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office.” 5:10pm- While appearing on CNN, political strategist Brad Todd explained that errors with the 2020 census “disproportionately” hurt Republican dominated states. 5:15pm- Democratic Strategist James Carville is now encouraging his party to make Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. states and add four seats to the Supreme Court if they take control of the House, Senate, and White House in 2028. 5:30pm- Chris Cuomo was tricked by perhaps the most obvious deep fake video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in recent memory—and didn’t realize it for nearly 3 hours! Are we actually on Team AOC here? 5:40pm- Dr. Victoria Coates— Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Donald Trump potentially meeting with Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. Dr. Coates is the author of the book: “The Battle for the Jewish State: How Israel—and America—Can Win.”

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1:11.3	Just come to the show. You can say for all of the show. You can say for part of the show. We just love to see you and love to see you there at the Grand Hotel of Cape May. Yeah, so I mean, I told you the master plan of the Democrats a long time ago, and that was always to, you add DC as a state, which, you know,
1:15.5	I would argue the Constitution prohibits, but they don't care about the Constitution, so they would push that anyway.
1:17.0	And Puerto Rico is a state.
1:18.8	Even though Puerto Rico has a Republican governor, you would get two Democrats senators.
1:22.6	You have a Kentucky situation out of Puerto Rico, and basically what you would have is you would have a super
1:31.3	majority in the Senate. The Democrats will kill the filibuster. And then there's no way for a Republican
1:38.8	to stop them. And then you then pack the Supreme Court. You make it a super basically mini legislature.
1:46.2	This is something that Booker's been screaming about for years.
1:48.6	You put 14 Supreme Court justices on there and you have your mini legislature that you can have to do all the stuff that Congress can't get passed in the House.
1:59.7	The redistricting fight that's playing out right now in the House of Representatives,
2:03.1	understand that what we're talking about right now and everything we're talking about
2:10.5	has to do with the fact that these maps have been gerrymandered to such a point because
2:16.4	they have counted illegal immigrants as
2:18.3	part of it. And I mentioned this and I was going to play it, but I had to go to break. But here's
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