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Trump Just Awoke a Sleeping Giant - Californias Governor Gavin Newsom Just Flipped The Script on GOP After Major Bluff Was Called on 'The Don' Redistricting District Maps

California Bluffed Its Way Into Flipping The Script on Republicans And Donald Trump - Redistricting Its District Maps in Response to Texas Redistricting.
But It Started Off As a Bluff

MSRAW 24 AUG 2025







How California bluffed its way into a redistricting war with Trump, in which the outlet quotes nearly 50 people involved with the effort who shared details about the tightly guarded process



When word got out that Texas might undertake an extraordinary mid decade redistricting at Donald Trumps behest, a handful of top California Democratic operatives floated an idea to Rep. Zoe Lofgren.. Could California respond in kind according to the weekend report. Lofgren, the chair of Californias 43 member Democratic delegation, consulted in June with a trusted data expert who dismissed it as absurd

- A foolhardy end run around the states popular redistricting panel with no guarantee of yielding enough blue seats to fully offset Texas. Deterred by those misgivings, California Democrats instead spent weeks putting up a front, dangling the threat of a countermove without making any real plans to do so.

The piece quotes Lofgren as saying, It seemed to me worth a bluff... If the Texans and Trump thought they'd go through all of this and they'd end up not gaining anything, maybe they would stop

She then added, But they didnt stop... They just doubled down


However, the bluff soon met reality....So did California Democrats, especially Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a matter of weeks, they bluffed themselves into the marquee political contest of Trumps second term, a high voltage fight to shape the outcome of the 2026 midterms, to benefit Trump and the remaining years of his presidency, according to the outlet.

Summing up, the reporters wrote, In the end, 87 of 90 Democrats voted to put the maps on the ballot a display of consensus that Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said was made possible by the California under siege mentality that had been building up ever since Trump re-took the White House

Its Whac a mole. We've been trying to play defense, Rivas added. But we finally just threw up our hands and said....

We've got to flip the script



Newsom Signs Redistricting Plan Vowing to FIGHT TRUMP WITH FIRE





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmsLTN6A0k
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