California voters on Tuesday approved a high-stakes redistricting measure that could determine whether Donald Trump and Republicans retain full government in next year’s midterm elections.
It was a decisive victory for Democrats in deep blue California, who advanced in a gerrymander in Texas, to avoid the newly safe Republican districts. In approving the measure, voters chose to toss out the work of California’s independent redistricting commission and temporarily adopt maps drawn by the state legislature to help Democrats pick up five additional seats in the US House of Representatives.
Gavin Newsom and Democrats framed the measure as a way to protect US democracy from Trump’s “Wrecking Ball.” In contrast, opponents offered a mixed message, with Republicans alternately attacking newsom and praising the work of the independent mapmaker.
Democrats hold 43 of the 52 state house seats. The new maps are designed to help Democrats flip as many as five of the state’s nine Republican-filled seats. It also helps make more swing seats easier for Democrats to win.
Five seats will be decisive in the battle for control of the house, a chamber that could be decided by razor-thin margins. The Party that wins the majority will shape the final years of Trump’s second term in the White House – whether a unified Republican Congress will continue his agenda or whether he will be defeated, even in a third impeachment attempt.
Historically, the President’s Party has lost ground in midterm elections. According to recent polls, Americans widely disapprove of the way Trump has carried out his powers in office and disapprove of the job he is doing. However, Republicans have an edge in renewing the Arms race that is spreading across the country as California continues to redeem the Gerrymander.
Trump has asked several Republican states, including Missouri and North Carolina, to approve the maps, while others are slated to follow suit. Some Democratic states have announced counter measures, but California’s maps are the first major response to the Republicans’ unprecedented efforts.
Going into election day, the Democrats were not at all confident, with the Governor of California telling donors that “AFTER donating to collection groups that are working against the collection initiative.
But victory is not certain. The initial surveys showed a reluctance among the people of Cali to impose their approved independent independent commission. While polls show independents turning the golden state upside down, Trump doesn’t and voters are angry at his “Yes” campaign.
In the final weeks of the expensive campaign, one of the costliest for a ballot measure in state history, the opposition has largely retreated. According to the California Secretary of StateThe supporters of the ballot measure about $ 170m – almost twice the opponents, who raised $ 84m.
Newsom said late last month that the campaign raised $38m from about 1.2m of George Suplos’ “Little Dollars” and about $4m from a lobbying soros and about $4m from a lobbying soros and about $4m from a lobbying teacher funded by George Soros and about a lobbying soros and about $4m from a teacher teacher who quit, etc. Tom Steyer, the billionaire and former Democratic presidential candidate, spent $12m to support the proposition.
While prominent Democrats from Barack Obama to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have moved behind the measure, most National Republicans have largely stayed the course. Trump went completely unnoticed for most of the campaign. Hours before the polls opened on Tuesday morning, Trump posted on social media, that there was no evidence of “extreme review in California Trump did not add which agencies are investigating.
Later, the White House Press Secretary repeated Trump’s bad claims that voting in California is “going to be the administration that is preparing to end this year’s suspension of voting by mail. A move that voting rights experts say is almost impossible, legally.
“It’s true that there was election fraud in California,” Leavitt said. “It’s a fact. It’s a fact.”
He offered nothing on the question, posed by PBS News land loz:
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Leavitt said the White House is working on an executive order that would ban mail-in voting in California.
Trump’s Justice Department sent Federal Election Officials to monitor polling sites in five California counties, a move by California officials that will lead to Philakations Pishidation. In response, California sent its own observers to watch federal monitors.
The success of the proposal of 50 caps lightning campaign that came together this summer, when the democrats of the house and state introduced the “electing ridgeater legislative movement of Speed
The former Republican governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Trump critic who championed the commission’s creation, harshly criticized Proposition 50, but never formally campaigned against it. Meanwhile, Charles Manger Jr, the wealthy Republican Donor and longtime independent backer of the re-election, has poured more than $30m into stopping “the evils of partisan gerrymandering”.
The new maps impact the 2026, 2028 and 2030 election cycles, where the state’s independent commission will continue the next census.
On Tuesday, voters waited in line in Los Angeles to cast a ballot at COCHAN Avenue Baptist Church.
“It’s time for the American people to say, ‘This is not right and this is unacceptable.’ Like when we came back when they said three-fifths of a person,” said Charles Johnson, pastor of the church, that you vote [Texas redistricting] an isolated event, no, it was an attack. Donald Trump says ‘I can do what I want, I can make myself king, and you lie down and take it.’ “
Abené Clayton contributed to this report from Los Angeles