The marketing campaign arm for Home Democrats despatched the California Legislature proposed new maps for the state’s congressional districts.
The brand new, partisan maps come on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s launch of California’s redistricting marketing campaign on Thursday, an effort he touted as meant to favor Democrats in California within the upcoming midterm elections as a counter to related efforts in Republican-led states elsewhere within the nation.
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The proposal from the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee isn’t ultimate. State legislators nonetheless must approve the maps, which might then be determined by voters in a particular election in November. And the redistricting effort is just “triggered,” Newsom has stated, by related partisan gerrymandering in purple states.
Nonetheless, that is an early image of what adjustments may very well be made to California’s congressional districts for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections — ought to that in the end occur.
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Underneath this proposal, solely 4 of the state’s 52 congressional districts would come with a majority of registered Republican voters. Now, 9 districts have extra registered Republican voters than Democrats, in keeping with the newest knowledge from the California secretary of state.
“Our proposed map was created utilizing conventional redistricting standards, in step with pointers laid out by the California’s Citizen Redistricting Fee,” Julie Merz, the DCCC’s government director, stated in a letter to California legislators, obtained by the Southern California Information Group. “It permits for extra compact districts than within the present Fee-drawn map, retains extra communities and neighborhoods collectively, splits fewer cities and makes minimal disruptions to the Fee-drawn map in order to influence as few residents as attainable.”
In the meantime, a spokesperson for the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee, the marketing campaign operation for Home Republicans, blasted the proposal, saying, “Out of contact Washington Democrats simply hand-delivered their gerrymandered wishlist to Sacramento. Backroom offers in broad daylight, and so they’re bragging about it.”
Check out the proposed maps — and extra of what the DCCC instructed the state legislature — beneath.
