California Governor Gavin Newsom told Donald Trump today that the president had missed the deadline to pull back from creating “illegal crooked maps” in red states to manipulate coming elections.
As a result, Newsom indicated the nation’s most populous state would “redraw the maps in California to offset the rigging of maps in red states.” He further promised that the results would be “historic as they will end the Trump Presidency” and result in the Democrats “taking back the House.”
On Monday, Newsom went public with a letter to Trump that laid out his demands.
“I am writing to ask you to call on the governor of Texas and other red states, who are acting on your request to draw new congressional maps through an unprecedented, mid-decade hyper-partisan gerrymander to rig the upcoming midterm elections, to stop those efforts.”
The governor then issued a series of all caps warnings to Trump on social media over the next 24 hours, all of which ended with the president’s own signature line, “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Newsom several times promised a “very important press conference this week with a major announcement,” again mimicking one of Trump’s favorite flourishes.
