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Catherine Rampell: Those aren’t the emails we should be looking for

President Trump would like to make someone’s email a central issue in the 2020 election, just as it was in 2016.

I’m on board — though I disagree with which someone we’re talking about.

We should be laser-focused on newly discovered private emails between a high-ranking census official and a GOP operative, and what they reveal about a long-term Republican conspiracy to rip political representation and financial resources from Democrats and people of color.

Thanks to recent court filings, we've learned that the late Thomas Hofeller, a Republican strategist and gerrymandering savant, helped devise a scheme to rig the political system in favor of his party for years, perhaps decades.