California Gov. Gavin Newsom bluffed himself into a gerrymander war that Republicans won before he could even get a shot off. He threatened that California would “fight fire with fire” (poor choice of words, Gav) by offsetting the five new GOP seats in Texas with five new Democrat seats in California. But the threat was a bluff.

Newsom gambled that if he just made the threat, Texas would back down or the GOP-controlled House would step in and implement a national ceasefire. But they didn’t, and so Newsom accidentally dragged his whole Party into a $100+ million campaign funded, among others, by George Soros and labor unions to put the matter to a vote in a special election in California on November 4, 2025.

Prop 50 will amend California’s Constitution to suspend the non-partisan maps dr

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