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voters in California to pass accepted limit change In a significant political maneuver, Democrats could gain five seats in the state’s 52 congressional districts. Lok Sabha In next year’s midterm elections.
The move, led by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, will cause a headache for Donald Trump’s Republican Party, which currently has full control of both the lower and upper houses with majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The vote on Proposition 50 follows similarly calculated efforts by Republicans in several other states to redraw maps — notably in Texas — to boost their party’s chances, a process commonly known as “gerrymandering.”
“We are proud of the work the people of California did tonight to send a powerful message to a historic president. Donald Trump is the most historically unpopular president in modern history.”
In approval of redistricting in Texas, he accused Trump of “trying to rig the midterm elections before a single vote is cast.”
He called on Democrats in the states of Virginia, Maryland, Illinois and New York to follow suit and “seize this moment, too, and recognize who we face in 2026.”
Typically, the redistricting process occurs once every decade, shortly after the national census, with legislative districts redrawn to reflect population changes in the states.
However, the passage of Proposition 50 allows officials in California to temporarily bypass the independent commission that typically controls the redistricting process, allowing them to draw a new and potentially more partisan map.
Democrats currently hold 43 of the state’s 52 seats, but the new map is designed to try to secure an additional five. That advantage could be enough to make a meaningful difference in the broader political race to control the House.
Should Democrats win the majority and thus install a Democratic Speaker of the House, it would reshape the final years of Trump’s presidency, limiting his ability to advance his agenda unchallenged.
Midterm elections have historically produced disappointing results for incumbent presidents. This pattern seems likely to be maintained in next year’s polling, with recent polls showing significant levels of dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s handling of major issues.
Two surveys released last weekend show Trump and the Republican Party are making a mess of their management of the economy, the immigration system, crime, healthcare, and foreign policy.
meanwhile, federal government shutdown is entering This week is its second month, There is no end in sight and the House of Representatives is still out of session.
Kevin Kiley, California Republican representative whose district would be redrawn under the new maps, said such an upset “falls far short of the ideals we should strive for in our democratic process.”
“I believe fighting fire with fire burns everything down,” he said in response to the tit-for-tat slogans invoked by Newsom. “With California’s new gerrymander, there’s no end in sight to the redistricting arms race.”
The term gerrymandering came into common use after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry approved a gerrymandered district in 1812, which looked like a “salamander” on a map.