Gavin Newsom urges Trump to abandon Texas redistricting effort in letter | Donald Trump
Once again, Texas Democrats made an effort to re -draw a republican effort, with the order of California Governor Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom.
Sufficient Texas Democrats remained outside the state on Monday to reject the necessary enough to continue the desired congress map of Trump, the state -led state legislature. Duzine democratic state deputies left the state on Sunday and took refuge in blue states such as Illinois and New York. Last week, they tried to raise awareness of their efforts to prevent the republican redistribution plan and to support rally.
Standoff has expanded the redistribution wars, threatening to draw retaliation maps by Newsom and other democratic state leaders, if Texas is moving forward with the red distribution scheme.
In a letter to Trump on Monday, Newsom said that the president was “playing with fire ve and warned that California is ready to“ neutralize any earnings that Republicans hoped to obtain in Texas.
“This attempt to come to power before a single vote in the 2026 elections is an insult to American democracy,” Newsom wrote.
The governor emphasized that he would prefer to leave the congress map issue to independent commissions, not to the Partizan legislative bodies, and that other states would be “happily” if he abandoned his efforts to redistribute. But “California can not stand empty as this power progresses.” He said.
In order to mimic Trump’s social media style, all cover tweets summarized the letter of Newsom’s office: “Donald Trump, if you don’t stop, we will have to make an effort to balance the armat of maps in red situations. However, other states will make efforts to direct the subject!
The White House did not respond immediately to the request for comments. However, when asked, Trump defended his Texas plan, arguing that he had the right to five chairs ”because he won the popular vote of the state in the 2024 Presidential elections. However, the argument is flawed – a popular vote gain does not necessarily mean that a president’s party is given more congress seats.
Despite the attractiveness of Newsom, the White House is trying to take other red states in the conflict of the red distribution. Last week, he went to Vice President JD Vance Indiana, where he met with the Republican leaders to make them lobbying for the effort. Republicans also targeted Ohio and Missouri.
At a press conference with a few core -breaking Texas deputies, as well as California’s legislative leaders, he summarized the plan to invalidate the existing congress maps drawn by a commission independent of voters and to accept a new offer to create five democratic -prone seats. The governor expressed his confidence that voters would approve the plan and said that the state legislature will act on time to take precautions in the ballot this November this November.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker also promised to take action.
In Texas Capitol in Austin, Dustin Burrows, the President of the State Assembly, postponed his session after the opening on Monday, and Texas Republican Greg Abbott has largely gathered a special session in five democratic seats, 202 years.
In short statements, Burrows said he used private agents in Texas to find democrats with civil orders for the arrest of the Public Security Department. Authorized, agents were established outside their homes, surveillance, knocked on their doors over and over again and called their phones, he said.
“No one has been at home so far,” he said: “The search continues and will not stop.”
DPS has set a clue line for the public to inform the democratic deputies about “where”. However, those who are out of the state are beyond the reach of Texas officials.
Since Sunday, Texas Republicans have increased political, legal and financial risks for the separated democrats.
Texas Chief Public Prosecutor Ken Paxton, the President of the President’s extreme right ally, asked the State Supreme Court to evacuate the seats of 13 non -state democrats. He also asked an Illinois court to apply Texas Civil warrants. Abbott wanted to dismiss Wu again, the democratic leader of the State Supreme Court. The US senator John Cornyn, a Republican who met a primarily by Paxton, is unclear what the federal law enforcement officers would be because FBI refused to help Texas officials to find democrats, but the agency refused to comment and was not accused of federal crimes.
The Democrats stated that on August 19, they plan to stay away from the special session at least to the end. Speaking from Illinois on Monday, Mihalala Plesa, the deputy of Texas, said that he and his democratic colleagues were “more determined than ever before” to stop Trump’s republican seat. “We do not take our walks from a man who thinks he is a king,” he said: “We are not withdrawn when the bets are high.”
However, the Governor of Texas promised to call special sessions over and over again until he returned to the state house.
In a weekend interview at Fox News Sunday, Abbott said, “If they will reappear in the state of Texas, they will be arrested and taken to Capitol.”
Burrows claimed that the members will be responsible for “every gallon gas, every mile traveling miles and overtime hours”. In accordance with the legislative rules, they are fined $ 500 per day for each absence.
Burrows said the house would try to gather again on Tuesday.
