By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Related Press Political Author
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama is coming into the combat for U.S. Home management by showing in a 30-second advert urging California voters to approve a November poll proposal that would add as many as 5 Democrat-held Home seats in California.
Proposition 50 would dramatically reshape California’s congressional districts with the intent of including Democratic seats in Congress. It’s crafted to achieve Democratic Home management, aimed toward offsetting President Donald Trump’s strikes in Texas and elsewhere to assist win extra Republican seats within the 2026 midterm election.
“Republicans need to steal sufficient seats in Congress to rig the subsequent election and wield unchecked energy for 2 extra years,” Obama says within the advert, trying straight into the digital camera. “You possibly can cease Republicans of their tracks.”
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has framed the election as a referendum on all issues Trump, who’s unpopular in liberal-leaning California outdoors of his conservative base. Voting on the proposal is underway and concludes Nov. 4.
Republicans and different opponents say the proposal quantities to a Democratic energy seize that will put aside district strains crafted by an impartial fee that was created by voters greater than a decade in the past.
The duel between California and Texas, the nation’s two most populous states, has unfold nationally. North Carolina Republican legislative leaders introduced plans Monday to vote subsequent week on redrawing the state’s Home district map, taking over Trump’s name to safe extra GOP seats nationwide and resist rival strikes by Democrats.
Republicans maintain a 219-213 majority within the U.S. Home, with three vacancies.
If authorised in California, it’s attainable the brand new political map might slash 5 Republican-held Home seats whereas bolstering Democratic incumbents in different battleground districts. That might increase the Democratic margin to 48 of California’s 52 congressional seats, up from the 43 seats the occasion now holds.
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