Trump Wants to Stop Counting the Number of Illegals in a State Towards Its Congressional Representation—And Democrat Voters Agree.

President Donald J. Trump is making moves to tie congressional representation to the total number of citizens and legal immigrants living in each state, with illegal aliens discounted. New polling data reveals that a majority of Democrat voters are in favor of changing the current system.

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Under the current system, the number of seats in the House of Representatives for each state is determined by the state’s population, including not just citizens and legal immigrants, but also illegal aliens.

Crucially, this gives extra seats to states with high concentrations of illegals and noncitizens, which are often centered in Democrat sanctuary cities.A new Census Bureau proposal, released on September 10, seeks to radically change the existing structure by counting only citizens and lawful permanent residents when determining a state’s population for the purpose of congressional apportionment in the next census in 2030.President Trump has been arguing for changes to the system since his first term, noting in 2020 that the current system essentially encourages and rewards states that allow violations of U.S. immigration law by counting illegal aliens in the census and increasing their power in Congress.Under the 14th Amendment, congressional seats are detemined by the “whole number of persons in each State” but, the Trump administration has consistently argued that while in practice that has counted noncitizens and illegals, the amendment itself “does not specifically define which persons must be included for the purposes of apportionment and requires only that Representatives be apportioned according to what has long been understood to mean the ‘inhabitants’ of each State.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/10/01/trump-wants-to-stop-counting-the-number-of-illegals-in-a-state-towards-its-congressional-representation-and-democrat-voters-agree/

GiantLdaV

@GiantLdaV

Oct 4

Democrats lost this demo over the last decade due to their terrifying policies. Now Latino voters may save America from leftist white women.

Khoa

@1980Khoa

Oct 4

Democrats will be very surprised that the Latino's shift from 2024 is very minimal. Hispanics don't think democrat's policies will make their life better.

New York Shade

@newyorkshade

Oct 4

Blue wave is so manufactured Ann Selzer 2.0

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LIVE: Trump Heads West for Nebraska Rally as Campaign Focus Turns to Midwest | APT

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Maricopa County Announces Runbeck Mistakenly Sent Out Thousands of Midterm Ballots – Trump Responds to TGP: “There Were No Errors… They Got Caught!”(VIDEO)

by Jordan Conradson Oct. 5, 2026 4:40 pm

President Trump sounded the alarm on the cheating in Arizona’s elections on Monday, slamming Maricopa County elections as “crooked” and “very, very dishonest” after the election vendors sent out thousands of ballots by mistake.

A similar issue occurred in 2022, when over 60,000 ballots with incorrect races were sent to voters by mistake ahead of the August primary elections.

Maricopa County announced on Sunday that over 3,000 ballots were mistakenly sent to voters by its ballot printing vendor, Runbeck Election Services, nearly a week before early voting is set to begin in the Grand Canyon State.

Runbeck has a history of errors and is believed to be behind the wrongdoings of the 2020 and 2022 elections in Arizona. Even in 2024, when Trump won in Arizona, Runbeck was accused of election security violations, including commingling blank ballots with voted ballots.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on this shady private entity, which was founded by leftists and transports and scans Maricopa County mail-in ballots with no oversight or chain of custody before they are processed and counted by the County.

Back in 2022, Runbeck was accused by Former Trump-Endorsed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s attorneys of creating massive discrepancies in ballot chain of custody documentation and generating tens of thousands of ballots that seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

It would appear the fix is in with Governor Katie Hobbs, who stole the 2022 election from Lake, up for reelection against Trump-Endorsed Republican Congressman Andy Biggs.

The Maricopa County Recorder’s office announced the so-called error, adding that the County Recorder’s office did not approve the ballots to be sent out.

“Runbeck Election Services informed the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office that it had mistakenly mailed 3,126 early ballots the previous day, six days before the scheduled October 7 mailing date.The premature mailing was not authorized by the Recorder’s Office, which was notified only after it occurred,” the County wrote.

“Runbeck’s error affected only the timing of the mailing.The correct ballots were mailed to the correct voters,” the statement continued, however, claiming that the ballots will remain valid and that “no voters were adversely affected.”

The county also published a statement by Runbeck, which the ballot vendor refused to release publicly. “The MCRO believes this is the wrong call, so we are posting it publicly for them,” they wrote.

We asked Trump about the so-called error on Monday, and he went off, calling the anomaly “crooked.”

“Maricopa just sent out thousands of ballots in error, Maricopa County in Arizona,” Trump said. “And they have to be ashamed of themselves.”

“By the way, there were no errors. You know that, right? There were no errors,” he continued, announcing it to the rest of the press.

“Did you hear that? Maricopa sent out thousands of ballots illegally, and they got caught! And now they’re saying it was an error. Maricopa is a very, very dishonest county.”

Kari Lake also slammed the so-called error, calling for honest elections in Arizona.

“Maricopa just sent out thousands of ballots in error, Maricopa County in Arizona,” Trump said. “And they have to be ashamed of themselves.”

“By the way, there were no errors. You know that, right? There were no errors,” he continued, announcing it to the rest of the press.

“Did you hear that? Maricopa sent out thousands of ballots illegally, and they got caught! And now they’re saying it was an error. Maricopa is a very, very dishonest county.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/maricopa-county-announces-runbeck-mistakenly-sent-thousands-midterm/

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Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

Anthony Ha 12:33 PM PDT · October 3, 2026

A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for her license plate without a warrant.

As reported by 404 Media, this ruling does not create a binding precedent,but it is one of the first times that a federal judge has ruled that a Flock search is unconstitutional.

In this case,Judge Sara Hill said the deputy should have obtained a warrant before searching the Flock database for the woman’s license plate, as he had “no apparent reason” for the search “other than the fact that [the woman’s vehicle] had a California license plate.”

The deputy then used the woman’s travel history in Flock as part of the justification for searching her car, where he allegedly discovered 91 pounds of meth. But Judge Hill wrote that all evidence obtained after the Flock search “must be suppressed as the fruit of a poisonous tree.”

Judge Hill also took broader aim at warrantless searches of the Flock database, writing that tracking people’s location — even when they’re in public places — becomes “constitutionally problematic when law enforcement can indiscriminately and passively catalog your whereabouts over an extended period of time and then use that information for any purpose whenever convenient.”

“This is a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance,” Hill wrote. “It is not targeted on a single individual, as in [Carpenter v. United States, a Supreme Court case focused on how government agencies access location data from cell phones]. It is a tool that collects information about all vehicles that pass by any network-connected camera at all times, and it serves up the information to law enforcement on demand.”

Hill joins a growing chorus of Flock critics from across the political spectrum. Numerous local and state governments, including Florida and Texas, have said they will stop using the technology. And on Friday, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Block Flock Act, which would bar federal agencies from using automated license plate readers such as Flock.

Flock CEO Garrett Langley — who we’ll be interviewing onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt — has called for a “compromise” between privacy and safety and offered an apology to women who have been stalked by law enforcement officers using the Flock system. And with all those cancellations,Flock has also reportedly offered voluntary employee buyouts as a way to shrink its workforce.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/

WATCH: Trump Slams CNN Over Fake Polls on Latino Support – “Your Whole Outfit is Fake, and so Are You!”

by Jordan Conradson Oct. 5, 2026 7:00 pm

President Trump on Monday eviscerated CNN’s Senior White House Correspondent, Kristen Holmes, when she tried to ask him about his polling with Latinos, claiming that only 27% of Latinos approve of him.

Recent polling from NBC and Telemundo claims that Trump’s approval with Latinos has plunged to 27%, crediting concerns over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and the cost of living.

“Two-thirds say his administration’s deportation policies have gone too far and three-quarters disapprove of how he has handled the economy and the cost of living,” according to NBC.

As he was departing the White House en route to Nebraska for a midterm rally, Holmes asked Trump about the polling, and he went off on her and her outlet.

President Trump on Monday eviscerated CNN’s Senior White House Correspondent, Kristen Holmes, when she tried to ask him about his polling with Latinos, claiming that only 27% of Latinos approve of him.

Recent polling from NBC and Telemundo claims that Trump’s approval with Latinos has plunged to 27%, crediting concerns over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and the cost of living.

“Two-thirds say his administration’s deportation policies have gone too far and three-quarters disapprove of how he has handled the economy and the cost of living,” according to NBC.

As he was departing the White House en route to Nebraska for a midterm rally, Holmes asked Trump about the polling, and he went off on her and her outlet.

“Oh, I’m doing great. No, no, you got my poll — you’re fake news,” Trump told Holmes, blasting CNN as “fake” and pointing to his crowd sizes at the rallies.

“You’re CNN, you’re fake news. My poll numbers are great, and all you have to do is look at the crowds we’re drawing. And every time I leave, that candidate will be losing, and by the time I leave, they’re winning.”

“No, CNN poll numbers are fake, and your whole outfit is fake, and so are you,” he added.

Trump has escalated his attacks on CNN since booting CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House last month, and is facing a lawsuit from the networks.

Still, Trump later banned CNN and Politico from accessing Air Force One to travel as part of the White House press pool.

The outlets are now asking U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly for a preliminary injunction to extend their access to the White House until the case is resolved, as well as seeking restoration of their access to the President on Air Force One. This comes after Kelly granted a temporary restraining order, reinstating their access to the White House grounds.

Trump has continued bashing CNN for their anti-Trump coverage.

Last week, the White House released a video compilation of Trump slamming CNN and its reporter, Kaitlan Collins, during his press conferences over the last year and a half.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/watch-trump-slams-cnn-fake-polls-latino-support/

White House Releases Compilation of Trump Going Off on CNN

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