On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom was held alongside six Democrats in the Texas legislature and joined them by accusing President Trump and Les Républicains of having tried to “fake” the elections to keep the seats of the Congress next year.
“They play by a set of different rules and we could sit down and act as if we had moral authority and watch this 249, 250 -year -old experience,” said Newsom about the history of the nation. “We are not going to allow this to happen.”
The legislators of Texas and the Governor spoke with journalists after meeting the governor’s manor in Sacramento in private to discuss a national political struggle on electoral cards that could modify the outcome of mid-term elections and the balance of power in the congress.
At the request of President Trump, the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, made his state legislature this week this week to a special session which includes a call to redistake the only state of the state to help the Republicans to take seats at the Congress.
This decision is part of a gerrymandering effort pushed by Trump to prevent the GOP from losing control of the House of Representatives next year. If the Democrats take the Chamber, they could derail the president’s agenda, which has so far included a repression against undocumented immigrants, prices on imports, the cancellation of efforts to combat climate change and undervalue state protections for the LGTBQ +community, among other political priorities.
Newsom threatened to reflect Trump’s tactics and said he was in talks with the leaders of the California legislative assembly to redraw the districts of the State Congress to promote the election of more democrats and fewer Republicans.
The Democrats of Texas, who declared that they went to California to meet the governor and explain the play of play in Texas, promised to do everything in their power to repel Trump’s plan.
“We will use all the tools at our disposal of the State of Texas to face this very illegal redistribution process which will be made on the back of the African-American and historic Latin American districts,” said the representative of the State of Texas Rafael Anchía.
Another group of Texas legislators should meet the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker in Chicago.
Changing the cards for the benefit of Democrats is a massive difference in California’s work over the past decade to eliminate political partisanry from the redistribution process.
Voters from California in 2010 gave an independent commission for citizens of redistribution of the power to determine the limits of voting districts for the Chamber of Representatives of the United States instead of leaving this authority with state legislature.
To redirect before the environment, the most legal option is that the legislators of the State send a constitutional amendment to voters who seek to authorize the modifications to the map of voters outside the limits of the independent redistribution process of California. Voting should occur during a special election before the June primary.
Newsom said he also explored a potential legal escape that could allow the California legislature to redraw the cards of the congress themselves with a two-thirds vote.
The Governor’s office said that the state law accused the redistribution committee of manufacturing new cards after a census, which takes place every 10 years. But they say that the law is silent on everything that is happening between this period.
Newsom lawyers believe that it may be possible for the legislator to redirect the seats in the congress in mid-December without going to the ballot.
The governor’s call to fight Trump using his own Gerrymandering tactics attracted a mixed response.
Newsom maintains that Democrats will continue to lose if they remain the only party that respects the rules. But others are concerned about the integrity of the electoral results across the country if the political parties of each state use a naked political game to take control.
Texas Republicans have long been accused of making political cards to dilute the power of black and Latin American voters, which led to an in progress trial from 2021. Newsom efforts in California would actually seek to increase the share of Democrats in the districts of the Republicans.
Rediscuping experts in California say they restart the cards in the Golden State could create the potential for democrats to return at least five of the seats held by GOP holders.
Democrats can have the potential for larger gains in Gerrymandering, especially in places like California that have attempted to practice non -partisan redistribution, compared to states such as Texas, where cards are already drawn in favor of the Republicans.
“It should not be surprising for anyone who covers Texas that every decade since 1970, Texas has been noted as discriminating people in color in its redistribution process,” said Anchía.
“By trying to do it, it will create a lot of trouble, not only for the people we represent, for the voters of the State of Texas, but also potentially for all Americans,” he said about Trump’s plan.
It is common for the party to control the White House to lose seats on a national scale during the first elections after a presidential competition. Republicans have majorities in the Senate and House, and losing the power of Democrats could harm Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s employment approval note Fallen at a lower level of 37% In a Gallup survey conducted earlier this month. The decline is just above its lower approval note of 34% at the end of its first mandate.
Trump publicly said that he thought it is possible for republicans to redistany and collect five seats in Texas, with the potential of gains in other states that redraw their cards.
