Rachel Maddow: Abrupt census deadline change shows White House doesn’t think Trump will get reelected

By Mike Brest

Published August 5, 2020 2:34pm ET

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Rachel Maddow: Abrupt census deadline change shows White House doesn’t think Trump will get reelected — Harvard professor Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, left, and MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show, right, take questions from an audience, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. | (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow argued that the White House’s abrupt shift on the census is evidence that they don’t believe President Trump will be reelected.

Maddow, the host of the Rachel Maddow Show, said on Tuesday that the administration’s decision to cut the census data gathering timetable, even after the deadline was pushed back as requested, shows that it wants to get the president the numbers before the next president is sworn in.

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