"I feel like there's not much we can do individually, so it does feel good to do something."
""Trump is such a polarizing figure," said Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at UCLA. "He commands great loyalty from one group of people and great animosity from others.""
Proposition 50 won decisively and has national political implications. Supporters framed the measure as a referendum on President Trump, and roughly half of California voters said their Prop 50 vote was a way of opposing Trump, according to a CNN exit poll. Democratic operatives crafted the measure in response to Trump's urging that GOP-majority states redraw congressional maps to favor Republicans and preserve House control. California previously created an independent redistricting commission in 2010 under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to remove partisan influence. The 14-member citizen panel draws contiguous, equal-population districts that comply with the Voting Rights Act and group communities of interest.
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