Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday laid out a case against a congressional redistricting initiative led by current Gov. Gavin Newsom ahead of a November special election.

Schwarzenegger, the only Republican to serve as California's governor in the 21st century, has long opposed the idea of gerrymandering. During a talk with USC Interim President Beong-Soo Kim for International Day of Democracy 2025 on Monday, he made his most public and stern statements against the initiative yet.

"It doesn't make any sense to me at all to go back with our principles," he said.

After his election victory in 2003, the former bodybuilder and actor championed Prop 11, which created an independent commission to draw the State Assembly and State Senate districts. In 2010, the power of

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