Obama endorses Newsom’s redistricting proposal
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Former President Barack Obama is backing California’s plan to counter mid-decade redistricting efforts by Republicans in Texas.
They want to do this by passing a state constitutional amendment via a ballot initiative during the 2026 general election.
Lofgren, the chair of California’s 43-member Democratic delegation, consulted in June with a trusted data expert who dismissed it as absurd — a foolhardy end-run around the state’s popular redistricting panel with no guarantee of yielding enough blue seats to fully offset Texas.
The Texas Senate has approved a Trump backed redistricting bill that could gain the GOP five House seats in 2026.
California has landed its counterpunch. The national tug-of-war over redistricting and voters in the 2026 midterm elections shifts once again back to Texas, where it all started. California lawmakers voted mostly along party lines Thursday to approve legislation calling for a special election in November to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.
California lawmakers passed a redistricting plan to counter Texas' GOP map. Voters will decide Nov. 4. Trump finally responds to Gavin Newsom’s mocking – and busts out an old nickname to do it Mexican brothers arrested,