DNC Enters Campaign to Help Gavin Newsom Steal California Congressional Seats

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DNC Enters Campaign to Help Gavin Newsom Steal California Congressional Seats

Joel B. Pollak 19 Sep 2025

The Democratic National Committee is entering the campaign for Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to gerrymander the California congressional map to flip five Republican seats to Democrats.

Politico reported Thursday:

    The Democratic National Committee is jumping into Gavin Newsom’s redistricting campaign in California for the first time with an initiative to target Latino voters, a crucial voting bloc that helped Republicans make significant gains in California and across the country last year.

    The DNC on Thursday announced a bilingual organizing effort designed to push Latino voters to back Prop 50, the redistricting measure. The organizing team includes 41,000 volunteers to make calls, send texts and knock on doors in English and Spanish.

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    It’s a modest intervention. But the organizing and ad campaigns mark the first official support from the DNC for Newsom’s effort with less than two months until November’s election — a sign of the national stakes of this year’s redistricting wars. The California Democratic Party has assisted in organizing and fundraising, while House Democrats’ largest super PAC has contributed millions to the measure so far.

The special election will cost the state up to $250 million, and an additional $200 million will be raised by Democratic donors, along with a somewhat equivalent amount on the Republican side.

While more than half a billion dollars, public and private, will be spent, tens of thousands of Californians remain displaced by wildfires. Many will struggle to rebuild their homes due to a lack of money, even if they have insurance.

Newsom has described his effort as a necessary response to redistricting in Texas, which will undo several Democrat-held majority-minority districts that the Department of Justice says are unconstitutional, given recent jurisprudence.

However, California voters amended the state constitution in 2008 to require that an independent redistricting commission draw the map.

Newsom hopes that a referendum will give him legal authority to undo the commission — though the effort likely faces court challenges, given that he and the state legislature usurped the power of the commission to draw the map that they are placing before the voters.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/19/dnc-enters-campaign-to-help-gavin-newsom-steal-california-congressional-seats/

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Soros drops massive donation into Newsom's redistricting effort to counter Trump: report
Billionaire donor's contribution builds California governor's war chest to $70M for Proposition 50
 By Emma Colton Fox News
Published September 19, 2025 9:44am EDT

Billionaire left-wing donor George Soros contributed $10 million to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's ballot initiative to redistrict the state, The New York Times reported Friday.

Soros, who has helped fund left-wing campaigns stretching from district attorneys to federal elections, contributed the single largest donation amount to Newsom's effort to redraw the state's congressional lines, according to the outlet, which cited two sources with direct knowledge.

Soros is the founder of the Open Society Foundations, which is a massive $25 billion nonprofit. His son Alex succeeded him as chair of the board of directors of the Open Society Foundations in 2022.

The donation has helped build Newsom's war chest for a redistricting effort to roughly $70 million, according to the Times. Newsom launched the redistricting effort, Proposition 50, earlier in 2025 to counter the Trump administration's promotion that Republicans in states such as Texas redistrict their own lines.

"We are talking about emergency measures to respond to what’s happening in Texas, and we will nullify what happens in Texas," Newsom said in August of Proposition 50.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/soros-drops-massive-donation-newsoms-redistricting-effort-counter-trump-report

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Texas started it ...

[Fishrrman]

RINO posts:
"Texas started it..."

What started in Texas, and has spread to California and also Missouri (I believe) may become "the wedge" that splits the country into two or more pieces.

It's not going to stop with just these states.

We're going to eventually see all the blue states gerrymander to the point where next-to-no congressional districts will be able to elect a Republican (even in former "red" areas of those states).

Conversely, we may see the red states respond in kind, doing a "one-eighty" and redistricting to lock out dem-communist and black candidates.

If the Supreme Court overturns that portion of the (awful) Voting Rights Act that enables "majority-minority" districts, all hell may break loose.

Where will this eventually end?
It will "end" when nearly ALL the states (or perhaps all 50 of them) have so gerrymandered their districts that almost no Congressional seats will remain "competitive" between the two parties.

Once this happens, one party may be locked out of governing simply by rote.
Candidates will no longer matter -- only whether a person has a "d" or an "r" next to their names. Cheating won't be required when it's impossible for one side to lose.

What will happen to the Congress (and Senate) when this point is reached?

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Texas started it ...

Uh, no.  California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland started it.

California - 40% Republican, GOP holds 17% of seats.
Illinois - 44% Republican, GOP holds 18% of seats
Maryland - 34% Republican, GOP holds 12% of seats
Massachusetts - 36% Republican, GOP holds 0% of seats

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Uh, no.  California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland started it.

California - 40% Republican, GOP holds 17% of seats.
Illinois - 44% Republican, GOP holds 18% of seats
Maryland - 34% Republican, GOP holds 12% of seats
Massachusetts - 36% Republican, GOP holds 0% of seats

Exactly that’s why when that pr*ck Noisome starts up with his bullshit and the DNC run their lying ads I just want to puke. As a life long Californian I have watched their gerrymandering over the years to squeeze out republicans.