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Ron DeSantis: “Biden comes in, who's the Commerce Secretary overseeing the…”

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DeSantis All But Accuses Gina Raimondo Of Rigging Post-Census Redistricting Against Red States

Published | Video Starts at 12:59

And I was looking around and I'm like, you know, they told me Rhode island was going to lose a seat and we were going to get two. And then Biden comes in, who's the Commerce Secretary overseeing the census? Former governor of Rhode Island. Did Rhode island lose a seat? No. Did Florida get two? No, we only got one. So there's all these questions, and so I've been frustrated with it. We were not going to get anywhere, I think, under the, under the Biden administration. (12:59–13:10)

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Asserts that the former governor of Rhode Island, as Commerce Secretary, oversaw a census where Rhode Island did not lose a seat, and Florida did not gain two seats as expected.

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