California to take on Newsom-backed redistricting plan today
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Despite supporting independent redistricting, former President Obama endorsed California Democrats' proposal to redraw the state's congressional districts to counter efforts by President Trump and GOP state leaders to push mid-decade partisan gerrymandering.
Under normal circumstances, the former president would not back a Democratic plan for mid-decade redistricting. But these are not normal circumstances.
California’s Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas’ mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its own.
Democratic voters loathe partisan redistricting, but support California doing it to counter Texas, according to a new national poll on Gavin Newsom’s high-stakes gerrymander.
Democratic voters overwhelmingly say partisan gerrymandering is wrong, except when it benefits California Democrats, a new poll shows. A new