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Ron DeSantis: “We got shortchanged in the census from this decade. And they…”

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Holds A Press Briefing On Red Snapper Fishing

Published | Video Starts at 13:01

And this was, this wasn't the only thing on the agenda. You know, we're talking about the census too, because We got shortchanged in the census from this decade. And they say, oh, well, Trump was president in 2020. Yeah, but then Biden came in, he issued a bunch of executive orders, and then how they applied that data only gave Florida one seat, where we are anticipating, two seats in Congress. Texas should have had three. They had two. So that was a big thing that we dealt with the Department of Commerce on. And I don't know what they're going to do. (13:01–13:19)

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Asserts that Florida was shortchanged in congressional seats due to census data application under Biden.

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