With less than 40 days until voters decide the fate of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to redraw California’s election map, major fundraisers on both sides of the ballot measure have raised more than $112 million in total, drawing political donations from Silicon Valley billionaires as well as Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C.
So far, Newsom’s Yes campaign has outraised its two main fundraising opponents 2-to-1. Proposition 50 supporters reported hundreds of thousands of individual donations, while the No camp has relied primarily on a single wealthy donor.
Newsom’s gerrymandering proposal explicitly seeks to flip five seats held by California Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives by persuading voters to approve new maps tilted in favor of his Democratic Party. Th