Texas, Gavin Newsom and Democrats
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Gavin Newsom recently announced a shockingly partisan electoral idea—to consider different “pathways” for California to conduct a mid-decade congressional redistricting to help shore up Democratic majorities. Out of context, this would be an outrageous effort to undermine well-established rules for determining congressional election boundaries.
Newsom contends Trump is playing gutter politics by pressuring Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the GOP-controlled Legislature to redraw the state’s U.S. House seats in an effort to elect five additional Republicans in next year’s midterm elections. House seats normally are redrawn only at the beginning of a decade after the decennial census.
As Texas moves forward with an off-cycle redistricting to shore up Republicans’ narrow House majority, Gov. Gavin Newsom is plotting a Democratic response in California. But the state’s independent redistricting commission is a major obstacle.
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'Do you even know what's going on in your state?' Newsom's epic putdown to Texas senator
Friday for apparently being unaware that the Texas Legislature is currently in recess amid a special session. Having commenced on Monday, the special session was called by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to address flood warning systems following the deadly Central Texas flood earlier this
If Texas gerrymanders its House seats to boost Republicans, Newsom threatens to do the same for Democrats. But it's not in the governor's power after voters created a nonpartisan commission.
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