US EditionCalifornia Gets Ready for Gerrymandering Fight
Governor Newsom's new map aims to flip five GOP districts to Democratic control and reduce Republican representation to 8%, with a special election set for voter approval.
- On August 16, 2025, California Democrats released a new House map and Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a November special election via ballot initiative.
- This fight was sparked by Texas redrawing its maps for the 2026 midterms to flip five seats from blue to red, prompting Newsom to call for redistricting.
- A Politico poll shows Democrats, Republicans and Independents overwhelmingly oppose the scheme, with 64% of Californians opposing, and the California Republican House Delegation condemning it Thursday.
- If enacted, the map could shrink Republican seats from 17% to 8%, leaving four GOP seats out of 52, and increase Democrat representation to 92%.
- This tit-for-tat with Texas risks turning congressional map wars into political chessboards nationwide, as approval requires overriding California’s independent redistricting commission and a key special election.
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Mike Johnson vows to fight California over gerrymander 'power grab' — but supports Texas
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declined to oppose a Texas gerrymandering effort that could maintain Republicans' control of Congress. Still, he has insisted that a similar move by Democrats in California was an "illegal power grab.""Gavin Newsom's latest attempt to disenfranchise millions of ...
Rep Kiley: New Congressional Map Goes Against Voters Wishes
YouTube @ Face The Nation The California Assembly has released a proposed map of the new Congressional Districts voters could decide on if approved by the legislature next week. Five California Republicans are targeted by the plan including Representative Kevin Kiley, who says this goes against what voters is the state said they want. State lawmakers will return today and will have until the end of the week to finalize and approve the proposed m…
Newsom Demands Special Election to Fully Gerrymander The Already Very Gerrymandered State - Geller Report
The far-left failure Governor Newsom is forcing a special election in an already very gerrymandered state into a utterly one party state. Newsom is a threat to democracy. Newsom claims gerrymandering is evil so he is going to super-gerrymander California’s existing gerrymandered congressional districts. Think about that. Newsom wants to increase Democrat representation by five more, which would give Democrats 92% representation, while 40% of Cal…
California gets ready for gerrymandering fight
As Texas Republicans convened for a second special session to move forward with a new congressional map deleting five Democratic seats, opposition-party lawmakers who’d fled the state were expected to return and oppose it — encouraged by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He’s been busy at home, too: If Newsom’s Democrats get their own map endorsed by Golden State voters on Nov. 4, every incumbent swing-seat Democrat will get a bluer district, and fi…
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