Governor reveals election rigging response act to counter Trump’s push to gain five extra seats in Texas midterms
Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said on Thursday state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan to counter the Republican-led map-drawing effort in Texas aimed at securing a House majority after the midterm elections.
Newsom, joined by congressional Democrats and legislative leaders, unveiled a plan, known as the election rigging response act, that would override California’s independent redistricting commission and draw new congressional lines – a direct counter to a Texas effort, sought by Donald Trump, to push through mid-cycle maps that could hand Republicans five extra US House seats. The governor vowed the move would “neuter and neutralize” Texas’s proposal.
“Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Newsom declared at a rally in Los Angeles, in which he formally called for a 4 November special election to approve a new congressional map. “We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district all across the country.”
from what I’ve gathered (although it’s been hard for me to find the exact info I’m looking for) most of the states with nonpartisan or bipartisan redistricting commissions seem to be democratic states by a significant margin.
safe to assume the ones that have partisan commissions are already gerrymandered to hell and back. and there’s little to gain from doing it more; there will be diminishing returns.
i think an all out war would mostly benefit the dems but again i don’t have very concrete data so I’ll qualify these statements to be based on gut and not much more.
That’s my gut feeling as well. Gerrymandering is a Republican tradition and they’ve been doing it in red states for decades now. Hard to believe there’s much more to squeeze from it. Blue states however…