Trump Allies Argue the GOP Can Systemically Take Dozens of House Seats From Democrats

Following President Donald Trump’s Thursday order for the Commerce Department to “immediately” begin work on a “new and highly accurate” census, several of his top media allies are claiming the GOP can net dozens of new House seats if they play their cards right.

“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern-day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump posted to his Truth Social account.

MAGA influencer and organizer Charlie Kirk quickly weighed in, sharing a map claiming that a new census would net the GOP ten new seats as Texas and Florida each gained 4 seats, while states like New York and California lost.

Kirk then took it a bit further, arguing, “Properly counting the US population would result in a delta of 15-20 more seats for Republicans. Article I of the Constitution says that the Census must be done ‘within’ every 10 year period. There is no prohibition on performing more. Redo the botched 2020 Covid Census.”

Steve Bannon brought on Alex deGrasse, a political strategist and a longtime adviser to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), to discuss a new census.

Bannon discussed why the first Trump administration failed, in his view, to correct the census. “At the time, the Commerce Department had a bunch of globalists in it. We kind of blinked and it didn’t happen. President Trump’s not making that mistake again. He says, ‘No way. We’re going to do it and do it right. No illegal aliens.’ How big a deal? Got about a minute to grasp. How big of a deal is that for us?” he then asked.

“If we zoom out, Steve, we’ve got three things here. OK, we got obviously the more we’ve been talking about on the show all week and prior, of course, the Texas redistricting. You’re looking at—we talked about 12 seats. Now it’s 13. Now they’re talking about 15, 16. You’ve got South Carolina. You got other states looking at things. That’s one front,” deGrasse replied, referring to the highly controversial gerrymandering battle going on in Texas.

“And we’ll get more in the weeds on that. Obviously, the census and not including illegal immigrants, which, again, something the War Room and you have been talking about for like since the start of the show, Steve would be systematically changing modern American politics,” deGrasse continued, adding:

And the other third aspect that we’re talking about here, Steve, is the Voting Rights Act, you know, is up in the Supreme Court. They said, ‘Wait, hold on, do we need race-based seats? You know, does this go against the 14th and 15th Amendment? And does the Constitution supersede racial seat drawing?’

Of course, now, and if that happens, you’ve got these three vectors. You know, back-of-the-envelope math, this morning, when I woke up with a smile, was Democrats could lose 42 seats, and that would change the whole ballgame here.

Bannon replied with a hearty chuckle.

Notably, the U.S. Constitution has always provided for the counting of non-citizens for apportionment, with the infamous compromise between North and South that a slave at the time be counted as “three-fifths” of a free person. Following the Civil War and the adoption of the 14th Amendment, the Constitution directed the census to count the “whole number of persons in each state.”

Watch the clip above via War Room.