It’s bad enough that Republicans have put a target square in the middle of AOC’s back, but now the Democrats have found a way to guarantee she doesn’t win in 2022.
It’s perfectly legal, and there is not a single thing she can do to stop them.
New York already knows that they are going to lose at least one congressional seat due to people fleeing the state for Florida.
The state Democrats are working on the new map – and guess whose district is going to be eliminated?
They will break up her current district and place various parts into districts with hugely popular representatives.
I guess they are still bitter over losing 25,000 high paying jobs and all the tax revenue they would have reaped.
She is also working against many longtime members of the House, and they don’t like that.
AOC is telling her constituents to make sure they fill out their census form in an effort to keep her seat.
The problem is, many of her constituents are illegals, and may not fill out their census forms out of fear of deportation even if those forms are anonymous.
Ocasio-Cortez’s main problem is that many of her constituents happen to be “undocumented” — “non-citzens,” as The City puts it.
The Trump Administration pushed to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census so that they could quantify where illegal immigrants and other undocumented workers were moving to after entering the country.
The Administration ultimately dropped that bid when it was clear the change would be tied up in litigation beyond the deadline for the 2020 census questions, but The City points out that illegal immigrants may still be nervous about filling out official government documentation, even if it is an anonymous survey.
“For Ocasio-Cortez, a full Census count is more than a matter of making sure her district gets all the funds and services it’s due. In a sense, her own political fortunes could hang in the balance,” the outlet reported in August.
“A review by THE CITY, building on data and analysis by The Texas Tribune, suggests Ocasio-Cortez’ district could be particularly vulnerable to undercount because a little over a quarter of those living there are non-citizens…That’s a higher percentage than any other congressional district in the state.”
