Just a few months ago, newly elected California GOP Chair Corrin Rankin was focused on upping her party’s game in the deep-blue state to make inroads in the 2026 midterms and prevent Democrats from forging a path to the House majority through her state.
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Now Rankin is staring down the prospect of losing four to six Congressional GOP seats in one fell special-election swoop in early November. That’s when all the ballots will be counted in the special election California Gov. Gavin Newsom designed to gerrymander Republican House members out of their seats, decimating the current nine-seat California GOP delegation.
Language in the ballot initiative pledges that it will only redraw the lines temporarily, but opponents are more than skeptical that Democrats will relinquish that control once they have it.
The state’s nearly 6 million registered Republicans and the GOP House delegation are now looking to Rankin, along with several other state GOP leaders and billionaires, to stop Newsom’s power grab in his tracks and prevent the Republican bloodletting.
Clearly focused on a 2028 White House run, Newsom is trying to elevate his standing among his fellow Democrats by countering a brazen Texas mid-decade plan designed to help Republicans maintain their narrow majority in the House.
The Texas redistricting is an unabashed effort to insulate the House Republicans from losing majority control and prevent Trump from being impeached in 2027. In Texas, unlike California, however, pursuing these new congressional lines has the added benefit of complying with state law.
State law and previous voter-approved measures appear to be of little concern to Newsom. The governor, with the backing of several of the state’s largest unions, came up with a plan to “fight fire with fire” and further gerrymander California’s congressional maps and throw Republican representation into oblivion. In doing so, he convinced the super-majority Democratic-controlled state legislature to ignore the state Constitution language banning mid-decade redistricting to put the issue to voters in a special election, which is costing the state – already tens of billions of dollars in the red – $300 million.
Newsom’s Nov. 4 ballot initiative, known as Prop 50, would also wrest control of the map-drawing process from an independent Citizens’ Redistricting Commission and place it back in the hands of the Democratic state legislature – even though voters in California in 2008 and again in 2010 voted to de-politicize the issue by taking that power away from politicians.
Newsom is trying to elevate his standing among his fellow Democrats by countering a brazen Texas mid-decade plan designed to help Republicans maintain their narrow majority in the House………unlike California, however, pursuing these new congressional lines has the added benefit of complying with state law.
Il Duche the head of the RSP (Radical Socialist Party) doesn’t seem to care about another State’s laws. Slick only wants what Slick wants, just like a tantrum prone 2 year old.
Understand this is nothing new for the RSP who is destroying rational city planning with the idiotic and unconstitutional RHNA.
Getting it yet?????? read this and remember the only way to make this quote work is if RSP PARTY MEMBERS VOTED FOR IT…. ” even though voters in California in 2008 and again in 2010 voted to de-politicize the issue by taking that power away from politicians.”””””””
Slick is without ethics just like Il Duche was in Italy.