Sacramento – Moments after California legislators approved a plan designed to undermine efforts by the president and co -republicans to maintain control over Congress, Gavin Newsom said the proposed partisan reduced that Democrats were an essential counterweight to President Trump’s threat to American democracy.
Trump’s assault on voice by mail and deciding to send the military to US cities is proof of his authoritarian policy, and California must do his part to keep him in check, Newsom said.
By deploying federal immigration agents in Roving Street attacks and activating thousands of members of the National Guard in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, Newsom said, collecting Trump “a private army for Donald Trump.”
“He is trying to target the election, he tries to set up the conditions where he can claim that the election was not won fairly and square,” Newsom said. “Open your eyes to what’s going on in the United States in 2025.”
The argument is a preview of the messages for the ballot campaign that Newsom and its Democratic Party allies will last over the next 74 days.
On Thursday, California lawmakers signed up at a special election on November 4, which will place partisan redistricts in front of voters in California.
The ballot, called Proposition 50, will ask voters to throw away the congressional boundaries drawn from the state’s Independent District Commission in 2021 in favor of partisan districts that can begin as much as five California Republicans from Congress.
“If all things are equal, and we all play with the same set of rules,” Newsom said, “there is no doubt that the Republican Party will be the minority party in the House of Representatives next year.”
California responds to what happened in Texas, we neutralize what happened, and we give the American population a good chance, ‘Newsom said.
The National Chairman of the Republican Congress Committee Rep. Richard Hudson of Northern Carolina has accused Newsom of trying to “direct” the system to promote his own political career.
“Instead of correcting the homelessness, crime, drug and cost crises that crush the Golden State, Gavin Newsom tear the California Constitution to promote its presidential ambitions,” Hudson said in a statement.
The new lines in California will neutralize the efforts in Texas to sign their cards of the congress district to elect another five GOP candidates in 2026. The Texas Legislature is expected to approve new district lines this week.
The other option, Newsom said, is that California and Democrats ‘overtake and do nothing’.
“I think people across the country are going here in California campaign,” Newsom said. “They acknowledge what’s at stake. It’s not just about the state of California. It’s about the United States of America. It’s about the election. It’s about the rules completely. ‘
Times staff writer Seema Mehta contributed to this report.