Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced Thursday plans to order a special election in November for voters to decide whether to approve new congressional maps to redistrict California House seats in favor of Democrats.
The strategy comes as a retaliatory rebuke to Republican-led Texas’s recent proposal to redraw the political maps in an effort to flip five House seats held by Democrats. Amid the push in the Lone Star state to keep Republicans in control of the House after the 2026 midterms, California members of Congress met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) earlier this month to discuss conducting similar efforts in a bid to boost Democrats’ presence in the lower chamber.
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