Newsom calls for special November election to block Trump from ‘rigging’ 2026 midterms

On Thursday, Democratic MPs and allies Governor Gavin Newsom launched a special election campaign that called on California voters to approve the new congress regions to shrink the state’s delegation, a move and the agenda of the Chairman of the Congress Trump.

The special election effort is a response to the Republic -led states, especially to Texas, and is a response to re -drawing Trump’s congress maps and to re -reduce the number of democrats in the US House of Representatives in a narrowly divided US.

Speaking to a fiery Partisan crowd at the Japanese American National Museum in the Los Angeles city center, Newsom described the efforts of the Republicans as a desperate effort for a failed president to come to power by controlling the Congress.

“He does not play with a different rules – he does not believe in the rules,” Newsom said. “And as a result, we must disappoint ourselves from the path of things. It is not good enough to hold hands, to make a candlelight vigil and to talk about how the world should be. We must recognize the cards and meet with fire.”

Governor California’s US senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff; Southern California’s congress democrats and union leaders who will provide financing and volunteers for the campaign.

Voting Pusula Measure, “Election Equipment Response Law” would temporarily scrape the state regions of the state issued by the voter -approved independent redistribution commission.

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According to a draft map reviewed by The Times, the Gerrymandering plan in California can increase the dominance of the Democratic Party in the state by making five home zones more favorable for democrats. These changes may reduce more than half of the number of republican representing California in the Congress.

Apart from the rally in the historical area where Japanese American families took on the camps of imprisoned camps during the World War II, border patrol agents gathered and arrested at least one person. Newsom, the crowd inside, said it doubts that it was a coincidence.

Republicans criticized the efforts of Newsom as antidemocrat and attempted to increase a future presidential campaign.

Voting Pusula measure, the National Republican Congress Committee spokesman Christian Martinez, the Campaign Branch of the Republicans Assembly, “reinforcing the radical democratic power, silencing California voters and supporting the 2028 presidential pipe dream,” he said.

For Newsom’s work plan, the state legislature, led by the democratic, should vote for November 4 to place the ballot. The final decision will be up to California voters.

California, the first coalition spokesman of the voters including a billionaire son Charles Munger Jr., who paid the Voting Pusula that created the independent commission, said, “The same tactics should not bend with Texas.

Thoma does not give two wrong rights and should not turn to the same tactics as California Texas. Instead, we should force other states to adopt our independent, non -partisan commission model throughout the country, ”he said. Munger said he would strongly oppose any proposal to overcome the independent commission.

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who advocated independent redistribution in California and throughout the country, said, “The Gerrymanders of the Politicians in Texas, the Gerrymanders of the Gerrymanders of California’s best way, standing against the levels of California, standing with the selects, standing with people, Daniel Ketchell.

Since the voters approved the redistribution of independent congress in 2010, the California regions have been drawn by a panel without a party preference between registered democrats, registered republicans and voters after the US census.

The Commission is not allowed to consider the regions to protect the partisan structure or the protection of persons in charge.

The current map was drawn in 2021 and entered into force for the 2022 elections.

Newsom is forcing this region to suspend the lines and puts a new map in front of the voters on November 4 to prefer the democrats. He said that this plan would be a “trigger”, that is, as the state -led state -led state progresses on its own, it means that a redrawn map will not come into force.

Sara Sadhwani, who served in the Rediment Commission, which approves the current congress boundaries, is deeply proud of the work completed by her and her colleagues, she said she approved Newsom’s efforts due to unprecedented threats to democracy.

“Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, Sad Sadhwani said, referring to migration raids, encouraging political violence and the use of national guard troops in American cities. “And if this is not enough, we are sure that the manager is of course that we have to return to the graves of our founding fathers. … These are the distinctive features of a danger.”

If the voters have approved the ballot, the new maps for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections will be in force until the independent commission is rediscovered in 2031.

In order to meet the ambitious final delivery date of Newsom, the legislature will have to pass the ballot compass through a two -thirds majority and send it to Newsom’s desk on 22 August. Governor and legislative leaders rely on their abilities to meet this threshold in the state council and the Senate, where democrats are a supercatority.

Newsom first talked about this idea in mid -July, so the whole process can be done within about five weeks. In general, the state’s election lines and the documentation of a measure that will appear before the voters in the ballot compass is not more than a year, but it is not more than a year.

In California, the Gerrymandering plan shaped behind closed doors will increase the domination of the state by making the Democratic Party more favorable for democrats, according to a draft map reviewed by The Times.

These changes may reduce more than half of the number of republican representing California in the Congress. California has the largest congress committee of the country with 52 members. Nine Republican.

In the plans discussed, a Northern California region represented by the representative Doug Lamalfa (R-Richvale) can pour rural, conservative voters near the Oregon border and collect left-leaning cities in Sonoma district. The Sacramento region representative Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) would see that the city was going to the more blue center of the city.

The plan will also add more democrats to the Central Valley region, represented by the representative David Valadao (R-Hanford), a perennial target for the democrats.

Southern California would see some of the biggest changes: the representative Darrell Issa (R-Bonall) would safely see that the Republican region was more purple with the addition of liberal Palm Springs in the San Diego district. And the representatives will be drawn to the same region, the young Kim (R-Anaheim Hills) and Ken Calvert (R-Corona), which will force the deputies to run against each other.

The plan would also support the democrats representing the swing regions such as Dave Min (D-Irvine) and Derek Tran (D-Orge).

In addition, in modern history, it can add another region to the Southeast Los Angeles district, which chose the first Latin congress member from California. A similar floor was eliminated during 2021 redistribution.

Trump’s producing Texas Republicans to redraw their maps launched a country -wide redistribution wars. This includes Florida, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri and Democrats in power, where Republicans control the state house, and New York, Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington.

The democratic deputies in Texas fled the state to prevent the approved of a new map of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic and prevented the necessary nuclei to approve the measure.

A second private session is expected to start on Friday. The deputies who are destroyed are faced with fines, civilian arrest orders and calls for dismissal.

Times staff writer in Sacramento contributed to this report.