Posted on 08/21/2025 10:42:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new congressional map that creates five winnable seats for their party, a direct counter to the Texas House’s approval of a new map to create more conservative-leaning seats in that state.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has engineered the high-risk strategy in response to President Donald Trump’s own brinkmanship. Trump pushed Texas Republicans to reopen the legislative maps they passed in 2021 to squeeze out up to five new GOP seats to help the party stave off a midterm defeat.
Unlike in Texas, where passage by the Republican-controlled state Senate and signature by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott are now all that’s needed to make the maps official, California faces a more uncertain route. Democrats must use their legislative supermajority to pass the map by a two-third margin. Then they must schedule a special election in November for voters to approve the map that Newsom must sign by Friday to meet ballot deadlines.
The added complexity is because California has a voter-approved independent commission that Newsom himself backed before Trump’s latest redistricting maneuver. Only the state’s voters can override the map that commission approved in 2021. But Newsom said extraordinary steps are required to counter Texas and other Republican-led states that Trump is pushing to revise maps.
“This is a new Democratic Party, this is a new day, this is new energy out there all across this country,” Newsom said Wednesday on a call with reporters. “And we’re going to fight fire with fire.”
Texas Democratic lawmakers, vastly outnumbered in that state’s legislature, delayed approval of the new map...
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They will be weakening other districts and can end up more vulnerable across more districts, especially if stronger control over ballot stuffing.
Let’s hope there is enough of a voter swing next year that this backfires on the dims.
Considering some terrible fires which have happened in California, Newsom really should not use fire metaphors. Just a thought.
The continued deportation of thousands of illegals from Kali will help also.
Historically, if someone is willing to fund opposition to a ballot measure in California, it can be defeated, regardless of the spending in support.
But...now that the Democrat party in California has enacted universal mail in voting, ballot harvesting, and has expended its demographic reach, that may no longer be the case.
I suspect the deciding factor will be motivation — will it be possible to motivate the millions of Republican voters to get to the polls to forestall their total disenfranchisement?
Time will tell.
Newsom declarers California elections are a waste of time and he’s taking over
Maybe Texas should add another 5 in response. Florida, how about another 3 or 4 there sounds good…
Elections in California are rigged through mail in ballots and vote harvesting. The state courts are stuffed with partisan hacks. This is enough to overcome any roadblocks in the existing California constitution.
California is set to act fast believing that is when it’s time to increase taxes or give more to the illegals.
Texas Senate approves GOP congressional map, sending plan to Abbott’s desk - which will be faster passage than Newsom’s action
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/22/texas-congressional-redistricting-map-senate-governor-desk/
https://senate.texas.gov/videoplayer.php?vid=22522&lang=en
Good deal
Thanks
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