Governor condemns Texas effort to redraw maps to pick up more seats and says Democrats should respond in kind
Seeking to offset a Republican plan to pick up congressional seats in Texas, California Democrats say they are prepared to redraw the state’s 52 congressional districts in a longshot and controversial effort to pick up Democratic seats.
Governor Gavin Newsom, seen as a likely presidential candidate in 2028, has been leading the threat in recent days. And Democratic members of California’s delegation in the US House appear to be on board.
“We want our gavels back,” Representative Mark Takano, a California Democrat, told Punchbowl News. “That’s what this is about.” Democrats hold 43 of California’s 52 seats and reportedly believe they can pick up an additional five to seven seats by drawing new maps.
Better yet, divide into North and South California to win the Senate
Or how about 20 States the size of New England States?
A whole bunch of those end up red
Not if gerrymandered correctly.
As long as it’s net blue we’re good.
Don’t be fooled into falling into this red vs blue gamified bullshit. It’s all a big club and you ain’t in it. Don’t play the same game that gets the maga fucks hating their neighbors.
To wit: if we can get more candidates like Mamdani, it’ll be a game-changer.
The maga fucks hate their neighbors because they’ve got cheese between their ears. They are legitimately insane.
So have you if you think that somehow means democract politicians are coming to save us.
According to an old CGPGrey video, this requires an actor of congress, except for in Texas, where they have a special privilege to subdivide themselves when they feel like it.
I dunno, i think the current congress is stupid enough to think breaking up california is a win for the republican party
Ok, here’s the plan. No legislation needed and the courts can’t stop it. Alright, we divide the population of New York City into ten parts. The first part stays in the city to keep New York state. The other nine parts each move to the nine least populated states. We might have to put together some sub plans for the nine states so that we can pick up house seats along with the Senate seats.
Good luck getting NYCers to leave NYC, we live here cause we love/hate it too much to leave
Three. San Diego can be South California, Los Angeles can be Central California, and the Bay Area can be North California.
And all the rednecks north and east of Mendocino? What’s to be done with them?
The Bay Area will balance them out.
By population, but not by land area. That’s why California reliably goes blue, even though a look at the district map has a Whole lot of red.
They can work in the tree mines