California ponders redistricting to reduce GOP congressional districts

Gov. The California democrats led by Gavin Newsom, the balance of power in the Congress and a brewing on the fate of President Trump and GOP’s aggressive, right -wing agenda may increase the task of independently drawn political regions as part of the national political fight.

The effort evaluated by the state democratic leaders is to reduce the number of republicans in the congress committee of California, and retaliate to the ongoing actions of GOP leaders in Texas, and to be involved in democratic representatives under Trump’s command.

“I think all this is a terrible idea… and I don’t think people understand the consequences of what people are talking about, Mat said Matt Rexroad expert Matt Rexroad. “When we come to the point where we re -distribute randomly after each election… redistribution will not be used as a tool that will reflect voter interests. After each choice, republican or democrat, the minority will only be used for political interests.”

Newsom has already discussed California’s Congress Zone borders before the 2026 elections.

Probably doing this will require a state -of -state voting measures to scrape or temporarily pause the voter -approved, independent California citizens in charge of drawing the boundaries of the congress regions represented in logical geography, common interests, minority communities and other directions. In 2010, California, two years after doing so for the state legislature, voted to form a commission to take partisan politics from the redditation process for the congress.

This year, Texas and other GOP -controlled states this year decided to re -decide to re -decide the congress zones to take control of the Congress in the coming elections in the coming elections, California may have to take an emergency action. The redrawing of the congress regions usually occurs after the decades of population in order to reflect the population shifts throughout the country.

“That’s why they want to change the game,” he said last week. “We can act compulsory. We can sit between them, talk about how the world should be, or we can recognize existential nature.”

Reduction experts on both sides agree that Partizan will make a few GOPs vulnerable to return to the re -scratching of the congress lines in California. The congress regions of the state can be restructured to increase the share of democratic voters in a way that is currently represented by Republicans or in a way that forces Republican office owners to confront each other.

Rexroad sees a scenario where Republicans are so packaged in the districts that the party will only have three safe seats. Only nine of the state’s 52 congress zones are currently represented by GOP.

Democratic Reduction Specialist Paul Mitchell said five of the region held by nine GOPs can be translated. The authority said the democrats are in a good position to win seats due to non -Partizan redistribution of California. In Texas, when compared, the districts are already Gerrymandered to choose Republicans.

In California, “Democrats have not drawn partisan calligraphy since the 90s,” he said. “So for decades, this partisan earnings remained on the table for decades. If you open the map, there are many people to support”.

Rexroad warns that there will be undesirable results that lead to a broken system in which the lines are redrawn to weaken the secure republic regions in Texas and to control the White House or various legislature after each election.

Prior to the establishment of the Independent Citizens Reduction Commission, California was similar to most of the other states. Political regions were created by strange -shaped regions such as the famous “shame lane”, which gives priority to the protection of the task by the state deputies of both parties and where a congress zone between Oxnard and Monterey district lost during the high tide of a 200 -mile coastal line.

Old USA Atty. General Eric Holder, such regions in 2017 in 2017 former President Obama and former Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), the national democratic redistribution committee began, he said.

“We have the most fair national congress map that the country has seen in a generation because of our work.

However, if some states open the process of redistribution for the Partisan gain, and the states controlled by the opposite party can open the retaliation process by doing the same thing.

California Democrats, President Trump and the administration of the Texas people, probably try to review the independent line drawing after calling the GOP to rehabilitate the ability to keep the Congress’s control in the next year’s interim elections.

The house is narrowly divided and the White House won the party, after two years, usually loses seats in the body. The loss of a handful of GOP seat would stop Trump’s plans and potentially make it a lame duck for two years.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for a special session of the state legislature, which contains redistribution and started on Monday.

On Tuesday, Abbott said that the decision was requested by a court decision last year, and that the state no longer has to draw “coalition zones olarak consisting of multiple minority communities.

Fox 4 Maps will insure that we will maximize the ability to vote for the candidate of Texas, “he said in an interview with FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth.

Pelosi said on Wednesday at the “Texas Devletma” event, “This shameless, shameless, redistribution of Donald Trump’s orders in mid -decade.” “And that’s what we do in California.

If California democrats continue their timely redistribution for the next year’s midterm exam selection, the legislative body, which the Democrats have a super -supervisor, can probably place the issue on the ballot during a special election in November. State deputies may also prefer to change through legislation, but this will probably be vulnerable to a legal difficulty.

The non -Partisan Congress redistribution was one of the gov at that time. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s priorities when approved by voters in 2010. Schwarzenegger did not focus on the state that potentially canceled the reform. However, the director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute warned that the weakening of the California system, which includes such political reforms among the most important priorities, will synchronize with the values of the state.

Uz We are in a frightening position with all this speech of this Gerrymandering Weapon Race between Texas and California, Coner said Coners Davis, the global director of the USC Schwarzenegger State and Global Policy Institute. “We must celebrate California’s Citizen Rediment Commission for voters both in the states and as a whole as a whole.

The Republican Party, which opposes the creation of the redistribution commission, is now supporting the community in the face of an offer that will cost the seats.

Corrin Rankin, the President of the Republican Party of California, is undermining the entire independent redistribution commission that everyone trusts in order to start dealing with him at this point. “And I don’t know what to look like constitutional.”

He was asked about Texas, disturbing California, saying he focused.

The state democrats, who opposed the creation of the commission, applauded the potential reaction to Texas.

“Trump and Republicans – from DC to Texas – are trying to rewrite the rules of our democracy, Rust California Democratic Party President Rusty Hicks said. “California, who is so dangerous, can leave an option other than fighting fire to protect and protect our democracy.”

Times staff writer in Sacramento contributed to this report.