Newsom unveils the California redistribution plan to counter the GOP Thursday

California is at the center of the scene Thursday in the national battle on the redistribution of the congress before the mid-term elections next year.

The Democratic Governor with two mandates Gavin Newsom joined the Democrats in Congress and the strongly blue legislative leaders during an event in Los Angeles.

It was there that they revealed their match plan to counter the push of President Donald Trump and the Republicans to create up to five districts of the GOP convivial congress in Texas to the detriment of the seats currently controlled by Democrat.

“Today is Liberation Day in California,” said Newsom. “Donald Trump, you pushed the bear and we’re going to hit.”

Newsom promises to fight “ fire of fire ” in the battle of redistribution of Congress

California DEMS “promised not to fully delete the state independent redistribution commission” and rather plan to ask the voters “to approve a constitutional amendment which would put new cards approved by the legislator in force for electoral cycles 2026, 2028 and 2030”. (AP photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

And Newsom promised to “meet the fire with fire” with its push for the rare – but not unknown – a redistribution of the decade.

Newsom says Trump has missed a deadline to withdraw on his efforts to redirect in Texas.

“Donald ‘Taco’ Trump, as many call it,` `missed ‘the deadline !!! California, will now draw new’ most beautiful cards’, they will be historic because they will end the Trump presidency (the DEMS will take over the house!),” Wrote Newsom earlier this week in an article on social media published by his press office, who makes fun of his own. social.

“Big Press Conference this week with powerful Dems and Gavin Newsom – your favorite governor – who will be devastating for” Maga “. Thank you for your attention to this case! – GN,” he added.

The republican thrust in Texas, which comes at the request of Trump, is part of a wider effort of the GOP across the country to fill their majority at the thin house like the razor to keep control of the mid-term room in 2026, when the power party traditionally faces a political head and loses seats.

Newsom demands Trump to abandon the Rediscuss Pushes of Texas

Trump and his political team aim to prevent what happened during his first mandate in the White House, when the Democrats returned to seize the majority of the room in the middle of 2018.

But while the republican push in Texas to upset the current cards of the Congress does not face the constitutional constraints, the Newsom path in California is much more complicated.

In Texas dominated by the GOP, the Republicans plan to promulgate the new cards they have attracted once enough of the State Democratic legislators who fled the State to prevent the legislator from passing the return of the measure to Texas.

The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, saw the floor during a bill in the Capitol of the State on April 23, 2025 in Austin, Texas, called a special session of the Legislative Assembly of Texas to put pressure for the redistribution of the Congress. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

The governor is moving to organize a special election this year, to obtain the approval of the voters to cancel the constitutional amendments that created the non -partisan redistribution committee. A two -thirds majority vote in the Californian legislature dominated by the Democrats would be necessary to hold the referendum.

The leaders of the Democratic Party are convinced that they will have the votes to advance the constitutional amendment and the new cards proposed to the Congress through the Legislative Assembly.

“Here, we are open and simple before a vote is expressed in the mid-term elections of 2026 and here (Trump) tries once again to fake the system,” said Newsom.

Newsom said that his plan was “not complicated. We do this in reaction to a President of the United States who called a Governor in office in the State of Texas and said” finding me five seats “. We do it in response to this act.”

The National Committee of the Republican Congress (NRCC) accused that “the Newsom was clearly: they will shive the constitution of California and trample democracy – direct a cynical and selfish game book where Californians are a reflection after the fact and power is the only priority.”

But Newsom defended his actions, saying: “We work through a very transparent, temporary and public process. We put the cards on the ballot and put power to the people.”

The appearance of Thursday by Newsom, which is considered to be a probable competitor for the democratic presidential appointment of 2028, will also serve as the start of fundraising to increase the massive quantities of the campaign necessary to sell the redistribution thrust throughout the state in California.

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The non -partisan redistribution commission, created over 15 years ago, remains popular with most Californians, according to the survey of public opinion.

This is why Newsom and the Democratic legislators of California promise not to completely remove the commission, but rather temporarily replacing it by the Legislative Assembly for the next three electoral cycles.

“We are going to assert our commitment to the independent redistribution of the State after the 2030 census, but we ask voters their consent to rediscover mid-term,” said Newsom.

But their efforts are opposed to a number of coalitions of figures favorable to the non -partisan commission.

Among the most visible members are former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the last Republican governor elected in California dominated by the Democrats.

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the last elected Republican elected governor in California, opposes the thrust of the Democrats to suppress the non -partisan red -cutting commission. (Tristar Media / Wireimage)

Schwarzenegger, during his governor mandate, played a main role in the adoption of constitutional amendments in California in 2008 and 2010 which took the power to draw legislative districts and the Congress of the States of politicians and to place it in the hands of an independent commission.

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“Most people do not really think of an independent commission, in one way or another. And it is both an opportunity and a challenge for Newsom,” Fox News Jack Pitney, American politics professor at California Claremont McKenna College, told Fox News.

But he added that “it will take a lot of effort and money to energize the Democrats and motivate them to present themselves to the polls” and that the effort of Newsom “is to motivate people who do not like Trump”.