California plans partisan redistricting through a Nov. 4 special election ballot measure, Proposition 50, to replace the congressional boundaries set by the 2021 independent redistricting commission. The proposed maps would favor Democrats and could unseat as many as five Republican members of Congress. The effort is presented as a response to perceived authoritarian actions, including assaults on vote-by-mail, military deployments in U.S. cities, federal immigration raids, and large National Guard activations. Those actions are characterized as efforts to rig elections and amass a private army. The campaign messaging aims to influence control of the U.S. House and neutralize developments in other states.
Trump's assault on vote by mail and decision to send the military into U.S. cities are evidence of his authoritarian policies, and California must do its part to keep him in check, Newsom said. By deploying federal immigration agents in roving street raids and activating thousands of members of the National Guard in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Newsom said, Trump is amassing "a private army for Donald Trump."
The argument is a preview of the messaging for the ballot measure campaign that Newsom and his Democratic Party allies will be running over the next 74 days. On Thursday, California lawmakers signed off on a Nov. 4 special election that will put partisan redistricting in front of California voters. The ballot measure, called Proposition 50, will ask voters to discard the congressional boundaries drawn by the state's independent redistricting commission in 2021 in favor of partisan districts that could boot as many as five California Republicans out of Congress.
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