{"id":144886,"date":"2025-08-14T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144886\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:58:09","slug":"newsom-to-announce-redistricting-plans-in-los-angeles-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144886\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom to announce redistricting plans in Los Angeles \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governor Gavin Newsom<\/a> was scheduled to visit Los Angeles Thursday as he was expected to announce his plans to redraw California’s congressional districts with other Democratic leaders in an effort to fight back against Texas\u2019 gerrymandering push.<\/p>\n

In an apparent move to mock President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s style of writing in social media posts with all capital letters as well as hyperbole, Newsom on Wednesday wrote that there will be a \u201cHISTORIC … BEAUTIFUL RALLY” in Los Angeles at 11:30 a.m. Thursday with the governor and other \u201cSTRONG DEMS.”<\/p>\n

In the same social media post, Newsom promised a \u201cbeautiful payback\u201d as he predicted Democrats will regain the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives during the midterm elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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HUGE \u201cHISTORIC\u201d EVENT \u2014 THURSDAY 11:30AM PACIFIC IN LOS ANGELES!!! A \u201cBEAUTIFUL RALLY\u201d \/ PRESS CONFERENCE WITH GAVIN CHRISTOPHER NEWSOM & STRONG DEMS. DEMOCRATS WILL DESTROY GREG ABBOTT\u2019S \u201cTOTALLY RIGGED MAPS.\u201d TREMENDOUS WORK IS BEING DONE. DONALD TRUMP (THE CRIMINAL\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) August 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The California governor has said he will push for a special election<\/a> so Californian voters can approve (or reject) the newly drawn congressional maps that will further squeeze out Republicans in the deep blue state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newsom also reiterated that his push for the new maps are a \u201creaction\u201d to Texas Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s effort to redraw the Lone Star state\u2019s congressional districts ahead of next year\u2019s mid-term elections, with the new maps potentially adding up to five Republicans seats in Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week<\/a>, the governor said the newly revised maps would be done by this week and released to the public so that California voters can review them before the special election on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n

Newsom also explained that he’s not eliminating California’s independent redistricting commission, saying the latest decision is just an “emergency measure.”<\/p>\n

“We will nullify what happens in Texas. We will pick up five seats with the consent of the people,” Newsom said.<\/p>\n

The California governor also said he feels confident that voters will approve his plan, especially in light of ongoing immigration raids across Southern California and the Trump’s administration’s slashing of federal funding from UCLA.<\/p>\n

“What more evidence do you need?” Newsom said “(California voters) intimately understand what’s at stake with Donald Trump”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In response to Newsom\u2019s plan, the California Republican Party would go to court to fight the redistricting effort in the state, according to Corrin Rankin, chair of the California Republican Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe California Republican Party will fight it in the courts, at the ballot box and in every community,” Rankin said.<\/p>\n

Texas and California \u2014 the two most populous U.S. states \u2014 are the leading actors in a back-and-forth push to remake the balance of power in the U.S. House, kicked off when President Donald Trump called for Texas to redraw district lines with the GOP’s fragile House majority imperiled in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Other states \u2014 including New York, Florida and Indiana \u2014 could get into the power struggle that\u2019s emerging as a national proxy war for control of Congress.<\/p>\n

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