Calfornia Gov. Gavin Newsom speaking at California Democratic Party Headquarters in Sacramento after Prop 50 passed on Nov. 4, 2025. REUTERS/Fred Greaves

California Gov. Gavin Newsom blew a big chance Tuesday night to share a vision for America with a national audience.

Instead, the Democrat made his victory speech all about President Donald Trump.

In a way, that was no surprise: Newsom had campaigned for Proposition 50 — which sets aside California’s independent congressional map in favor of raw, partisan gerrymandering — as if it were a referendum on Trump, and not about California at all.

As of Wednesday morning, Prop 50 had won nearly two-thirds of the vote, a sign of the intensity of partisan loyalty among Democrats in the state — and of California Republicans’ despair.

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