California voters approved new voting maps Tuesday that could net Democrats as many as five new seats in Congress, handing a major victory to Gov. Gavin Newsom in a nationwide redistricting race urged by President Donald Trump.

California's Proposition 50, which drew nationwide attention amid several states weighing mid-decade changes to their voting maps, was on track to pass comfortably, with the "yes" vote leading 64% to 36% as of early Wednesday and more than 8 million votes tallied. The race was quickly called by election experts and news organizations even as millions of late-arriving mail ballots likely remain to be counted across California.

California voters have been casting vote-by-mail ballots for weeks in the special election that concluded Tuesday and will play a substant

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