News|PoliticsCalifornia’s Proposition 50 on redistricting to pass in blow to TrumpBig victory for California Governor Gavin Newsom could tip congressional balance of power in Democrats’ favour.
California has passed a ballot measure that will redraw the boundaries of electoral districts to favour the Democrats in next year’s critical midterm elections in a counterattack against United States President Donald Trump ’s gerrymandering in…
California has passed a ballot measure that will redraw the boundaries of electoral districts to favour the Democrats in next year’s critical midterm elections in a counterattack against United States President Donald Trump ’s gerrymandering in Republican states.
Early results from Tuesday’s vote showed voters approved Proposition 50 by a margin of two-to-one in what was seen as a big victory for Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom , boosting his party’s chances of winning control of the US Congress in next year’s poll and hence thwarting Trump’s agenda.
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The approval of the measure means Democrats might win as many as five additional seats in the House, offsetting the five that Texas Republicans are looking to pick up after Trump urged them to redraw their own maps. Republicans also expect to gain one seat each from new maps in Missouri and North Carolina, and potentially two more in Ohio.
Republicans also expect to gain one seat each from new maps in Missouri and North Carolina, and potentially two more in Ohio.
Trump responded to Newsom’s fightback with fury. “The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” he wrote on his social media site Truth Social on Tuesday.
Newsom, who is staking his claim to leadership of the Democratic Party ahead of the 2028 presidential election on his willingness to stand up to Trump, hit back, describing the Republican’s response as the “ramblings of an old man that knows he’s about to LOSE”. Taking to X after the victory, he said voters had sent a “powerful message” to Trump.
Tonight, California sent a powerful message to Donald Trump. We will fight for our democracy. And we will win.
Based on reporting by Al Jazeera.
