Air Conditioning Meets The Census Results and 89 Missing New Yorkers
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, April 28th. |
| 0:15.0 | Can the result of the census be appealed? Can there be a recount like in a close election or a videotape replay like in sports? |
| 0:24.1 | Governor Cuomo wants to try. Look, you had a lot going on. You had people who were nervous to come |
| 0:31.1 | forward, right? You have undocumented people who were nervous to come forward. I do believe the |
| 0:36.5 | federal government had a chilling effect. |
| 0:39.4 | The 2020 census count, as it was released on Monday and currently stands, will mean New York |
| 0:45.5 | State loses one seat in the House of Representatives. Soll, other Northeast and Midwest, |
| 0:51.9 | Rust Belt states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois, |
| 0:55.7 | so will West Virginia, Seoul, California, New Jersey will stand pat. Florida and North Carolina |
| 1:01.7 | will gain one, and Texas will gain two seats. But it's not just about the Sunbelt, |
| 1:07.1 | also gaining a seat the more northern and western states of Oregon, Montana, and Colorado. |
| 1:13.6 | North Carolina will also gain a seat. Each seat in Congress is also one electoral vote for president, |
| 1:20.4 | so it's a political double dip. In New York's case, it would not have lost a seat if just |
| 1:26.6 | 89 more people have been counted in the |
| 1:30.0 | census. Mayor de Blasio is blaming poor outreach by Cuomo for that narrow loss. Cuomo is |
| 1:36.2 | blaming Trump for scaring away Latinos from filling out the forms. Do I think it was accurate |
| 1:42.5 | to within 89? No. And we're looking at legal options, because when you're talking about 89, I mean, that could be a minor mistake in counting. |
| 1:55.0 | So Cuomo might get that day in court for New York, but other people are asking, what if Cuomo hadn't transferred all |
| 2:02.7 | those COVID patients from hospitals back to nursing homes? Maybe 89 more people would have lived |
| 2:08.7 | past April 1st, Census Day, and been counted. Ready to geek out on more numbers? The total U.S. |
| 2:16.2 | population was counted at $328 million, up around $22 million from a decade ago. |
| 2:23.0 | Rounding to the nearest million, California has 40 million people, the biggest state, up by 2 million. |
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