On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama called out President Donald Trump’s push to gerrymander congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections and endorsed the California ballot initiative seeking to counter Trump’s power grab.

Obama appeared on a video call with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to support that state’s Proposition 50, which would pause independent redistricting and instead allow lawmakers to draw congressional maps in response to Republican gerrymandering in other states.

“Our current president and his administration is explicitly saying that we want to change the rules of the game midstream in order to insulate ourselves from the people’s judgement,” Obama said.

Obama further noted that Republicans want to change the maps “before any election in which they

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