Sacramento, California (AP) – it is either a plan to save democracy from President Donald Trump’s attempts, to prepare elections, or a power business of governor Gavin Newsom and California Democrats.
The race for the urge of Newsom to make the California congress card with about five weeks before 2026 until the voters can start filling early ballots for proposition 50. The prevailing story could determine which party has been checking the US house from Trump’s second term in the past two years.
Days after the campaign started, supporters and opponents each brought more than 10 million dollars. This is a fraction of the over $ 100 million, which is expected to be issued for voters by November 4. The competition also draws some top-class politicians from the state, including the actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the former US house spokesman Kevin McCarthy.
Here is a look at the campaigns and how they appear.
A national redistribution fight
The California election question is part of the unusual redistribution of Republicans in Texas with Trump’s instructions last month. Through the dration of GOP-led states to create the borders of the congress district in favor of the party, the President hopes to prevent the Democrats from taking control of the US house in the 2026 elections.
Democrats need a net profit of only three seats to regain the majority of the House of Representatives, which would give them the authority to invite Trump, to examine his administration and to block his legislative agenda.
The Republican legislator of the state in Texas passed a legislative template to win five democratic congress seats for the GOP. Republican governor Greg Abbott signed it in the law on Friday.
The democratically controlled legislator in California reacted to benefits in kind. Last week, the legislature approved a plan that quickly signed to ask the voters to approve new borders of the house, support the shaky democratic districts and collect up to five GOP hero seats.
Mobilize newsoma and democratic allies
According to a spokesman for the campaign of around 400,000 miniature donations of at least 12 million US dollars, Newsom and its democratic allies have collected. They also rely on wealthy donors and influential interest groups that are brought into harmony with Democrats. The California Teachers Association and the House majority PAC, an independent spending group that supports democratic home candidates, each received at least 3 million dollars.
Newsom contributed 2 million US dollars from its own campaign fund, while the Service Employees International Union and the California Labor Federation each gave 1 million US dollars. Other top donors are Business and Technology Manager Bill Bloomfield, Paul Graham, John Pritzker and Andrew Hauptman.
The move is necessary to reset Trump’s aggressive agenda, said Newsom and added that he is convinced that Trump will not leave the White House after his second term, even though there is a constitutional ban on the services of more than two office hours. The campaign expressly connected the redistribution to the fate of American democracy.
“Wake up, we lose this country in real time,” said Newsom. “This is not blueed. This is not an exaggeration. It happens.”
The Republicans are building up their threats of war
On the other hand, several groups have shown themselves against the measure, each with a different approach.
Stop Sacramentos Power -Grab, led by McCarthy and Jessica Millan Patterson, a former State GOP chairman, Frames Newsoms Initiative of Democrats to raise their own influence.
Patterson said the group wanted to be sure that “people who believe that power belongs to the people and does not belong to Sacramento politicians, trained and selected.”
Another group, Protect voters First, is the plan of Newsom as an attack on the California -approved independent redistribution commission approved by the voters. Charles Munger Jr., a productive donor in California who spent millions of dollars to support the creation of the Commission, contributed 20 million US dollars and signaled that he is open to the expenses for the achievement of voters.
Schwarzenegger, one of the most remarkable masters of this commission, will continue to speak against the GERRYMANGERING efforts. The Republican has not committed to formal campaigns and does not plan to found his own committee, his representative said.
Mailers from opposing groups already reached voters this week. An organization from Mung’s organization cites criticism of the unusual redistribution of some Democrats and supporters of the good government like the league of the voters.
TV and digital ads from both sides are expected to go live as quickly as this weekend. Campaigns also plan the efforts to achieve undecided voters.
If the voters approve the new card, this would replace the existing one by the independent commission and remain elections by 2030. The Commission would then resume its authority to draw new borders using 2030 vols counting data.
Other states can join
Both parties look for the US card to see where else they can bring their advantage. The Republicans in Indiana, Missouri and Florida will win the profits. Democrats see potential in Maryland, New York and Illinois.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe, a Republican, called for a special meeting on Friday next week to think about a redistribution and wanted to add another GOP-friendly district.
The previous movements in Texas and California were confronted with legal challenges. The Supreme Court of California rejected two complaints submitted by the Republican legislators, but the opponents said they would further question the card.
The US MP Kevin Kiley, a Republican whose district becomes more democratic when the new card survives in California, hopes that voters ignore what happens in Texas and in the White House. The question of the voters only affects California and his elections, he said.
“It makes no sense to say that if another state does something that we do not like, then also with the deeds,” said Kiley, who opposed the Texas redistribution plan and recently introduced legislation in order to prohibit all the efforts of the Midcycle redistribution nationwide. “That doesn’t do the test of kindergarten logic. Two mistakes do not make a right.”
Democrats in Washington are confident that forceful candidates are willing to operate in the newly achievable California districts if the voters agree.
In addition to Kiley, the proposed California map is also directed against the Republican Doug Lamalfa, which mainly represents rural areas of Northern California, and Ken Calvert in the suburban inland Empire in Southern California. Your districts would be much less conservative.
The democratic map also aims at Republicans David Valadao in the Central Valley and Darrell Issa agricultural region in San Diego.
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Cooper reported by Phoenix.
