Voters in former Republican strongholds are seeing red as their districts turn blue after Gavin Newsom and California’s voters passed Prop 50, paving the way to flip five House seats to the Democrats.
The proposition — which passed overwhelming with 63 percent of the vote — was a feat of calculated gerrymandering meant to offset a similar, Trump-backed scheme in Texas, theoretically balancing the scales in Washington.
Prop 50 eliminates five of the state’s Republican congressional districts by swapping the existing map — drawn by an independent commission — with one from Democratic state lawmakers until 2030.
But 2,000 miles away from the Capitol, conservative Californians feel their voice is being stripped away in the name of political gamesmanship.
“This is just Newsom reacting t

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