House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Monday he has directed his chamber’s campaign arm for Republicans to do what it can to prevent an effort to redraw California’s congressional districts designed to thwart a similar middecade redistricting plan in Texas.
California Democrats on Friday proposed a new congressional map that seeks to neutralize the five-seat gain expected under Texas’ redistricting plan. Led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, they are putting the map on the ballot in a special election in November, bypassing the state’s independent redistricting commission.
“Unlike other states, California must shred its own Constitution to succeed in its desperate gambit to ‘end the Trump presidency,'” Johnson posted on X. “Voters in California and across the nation see through this partisan stunt. Gavin Newsom should spend less time trampling his state’s laws for a blatant power grab, and more time working to change the disastrous, far-left policies that are destroying California.
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