Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers face an uphill battle to convince Californians to redraw congressional maps before the midterm elections next year, according to a poll released Aug. 14.
Nearly two-thirds of Californians surveyed by the Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab disagreed with changing the state’s current nonpartisan redistricting system.
In response to Texas’s congressional redistricting plan, which would potentially help Republicans grow their currently slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Newsom announced a plan on Aug. 14 that would allow the state’s Democratic Party leaders to adopt favorable “temporary” congressional maps to give their party five more seats in the U.S. House by turning over five seats currently held by the state’s Republican representatives….