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Nicholas Begich: “Under the Constitution, anyone who is in the country…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Thursday 3-7-24 - Candidate Nick Begich & Senator Mike Shower

Published | Video Starts at 42:01

California will have fewer. The Democrats know that structurally, demographically, they are going to lose the United States House of Representatives the next, after the next census, after the next reapportionment. But Under the Constitution, anyone who is in the country, whether they are a citizen or not, counts in the census. and it counts toward the number of representatives that we have in the house from each state. This is what's going on. Why do you think all these people are being housed in California? (42:01–42:10)

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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution mandates counting all residents, citizens or not, in the census.

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