Texas redistricting prompts Newsom risk to redraw California maps

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding that President Donald Trump abandon a GOP-led redistricting push in Texas following a Democratic walkout that blocked the vote within the Lone Star State over a Republican effort to redraw congressional maps.

The Democratic governor warned the partisan battle dangers spiraling right into a nationwide redistricting "arms race" and urged Trump to "stand down."

After days of aggressive forwards and backwards between the 2 leaders, Newsom tweeted from the official web page of the Governor Newsom Press Office , mocking Trump in what was ostensibly meant to imitate the president’s idiosyncratic type of utilizing all-caps and superlatives for a lot of of his posts.

DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST SAYS PARTY LACKS 'MORAL AUTHORITY' ON TEXAS REDISTRICTING FIGHT

California Gov. Gavin Newsom requires a brand new method for California to redraw its voting districts throughout a information convention In Sacramento, Calif., Friday July 25, 2025 (AP Picture by Wealthy Pedroncelli)

"DONALD ‘TACO’ TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, ‘MISSED’ THE DEADLINE!!! CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE ‘BEAUTIFUL MAPS,’ THEY WILL BE HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!). BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR ‘MAGA.’ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GN," the tweet learn.

Newsom’s hyperbolic, Trump-mimicking tone steered that California will likely be retaliating within the ongoing redistricting battle except purple states like Texas abort their partisan map plans.

The governor appeared to double down on feedback on X from Monday during which he posted a video together with the caption:

" Donald Trump : It’s time to name Greg Abbott and inform him to face down. You aren't ‘entitled’ to five congressional seats. If you don't name your lapdogs off, CA will act rapidly and swiftly. We'll go to the poll. We'll neutralize no matter beneficial properties you make. We won't stand by when you gentle Democracy on hearth."

J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, left, and State Consultant Gene Wu, a Democrat from Texas, throughout a information convention on the Democratic Celebration of DuPage County workplace in Carol Stream, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. ( Photographer: Talia Sprague/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

CALIFORNIA LAUNCHES REDISTRICTING FIGHT TO ‘NULLIFY’ TEXAS GOP PLAN, WITH DEMS POISED TO GAIN 5 SEATS

The publish coincided with a letter to Trump from Monday accusing the president of "taking part in with hearth."

The governor stated he's ready to do no matter it takes to fight any beneficial properties that the republicans might obtain by way of efforts in Texas.

"You're taking part in with hearth, risking the destabilization of our democracy, whereas understanding that California can neutralize any beneficial properties you hope to make," Newsom advised Trump within the letter.

"This try and rig congressional maps to carry onto energy earlier than a single vote is solid within the 2026 election is an affront to American democracy," Newsom stated.

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Newsom stated he was in favor of leaving the choice to unbiased commissions, and that he would "fortunately" stand down if different states adopted swimsuit within the redistricting effort.

In one other snarky, all-caps tweet meant to imitate Trump’s social media type, Newsom’s workplace summarized the letter: "DONALD TRUMP, IF YOU DO NOT STAND DOWN, WE WILL BE FORCED TO LEAD AN EFFORT TO REDRAW THE MAPS IN CA TO OFFSET THE RIGGING OF MAPS IN RED STATES. BUT IF THE OTHER STATES CALL OFF THEIR REDISTRICTING EFFORTS, WE WILL DO THE SAME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"

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Newsom’s risk may mark a dramatic reversal of California’s voter-approved unbiased redistricting course of and doubtlessly require legislative motion or perhaps a statewide poll measure.

Whereas that is solely meant as a political counterpunch, the transfer has sparked debate amongst Democrats’ and Republicans’ about whether or not the social gathering dangers sacrificing its ethical excessive floor on truthful maps.