Former President Barack Obama He said he agreed to the reaction of California Governor Gavin Newsom to change his state’s congressional map in an effort to promote Texas President Donald Trump, which aims to strengthen his Republic’s position in next year’s election.
“I believe Gov. Newsom’s approach is a responsible approach. He said this is responsible. We won’t try to maximize it completely,” Obama said during a fundraiser Tuesday at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, according to an excerpt obtained by the Associated Press. “We’re going to do that only if Texas and other Republican states start to pull these maneuvers, otherwise this won’t be enforced.”
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While he notes that “political gerrymandering” is not his “like,” Obama said that if Democrats don’t respond effectively, this White House and Republican-controlled state government would not stop nationwide.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will hold a press conference at its Google office in San Francisco on Thursday, August 7, 2025 to announce its new AI partnership. (via Anna Connors/San Francisco Chronicle)
The event raised $2 million for the National Democratic Constituency Commission and its affiliates, organizers said. Filing and support lawsuits In some states in the GOP-Drawn district. Also featured were former House Speakers Nancy Pelosi and Eric Holder, who served as Obama’s attorney general and led the group.
The former president’s comments come when Texas legislators return to Austin this week, updating the heated debate over a new Congressional map that will create five new potential GOP sheets. The plan is the outcome President Donald Trump’s outbreakThey are trying to stop a medium-term defeat that takes control of the House of Representatives. Texas Democrats delayed the 15-day vote by leaving the state in protest and taking enough members to steal enough members.
Spurring the situation in Texas, Democratic governors, including newspapers, have A thoughtful way Five years after the number of census that generally leads to such procedures, it could strengthen their party’s position by redrawing the district lines of the US home.
In California, the goal is to give voters in 2010 the Independent Committee the power to pull out the map of Congress, making the process partisan – Democrats have Proposals have been announced It is the dominant political party of the state. Parliamentary rule next year. if Approved by voters In November, the blueprint could almost erase Republican House members from the country’s most populous state, with Democrats planning to win 48 of 43 to 52 US home seats.
Republican lawmakers clash with Democrats and hearings over the measures were left to yell games Tuesday as committees vote along the party line and advance the new Congressional map. California Democrats don’t need Republican votes to move forward, so lawmakers approve the proposed map of Congress, Special election on November 4th By Thursday to get the necessary voter approval.
Newsom and the Democratic leaders say they’ll ask voters to approve the new map just for the next few elections. Obama praised that temporary timeline.
“And we’re looking to a long-term place so we’re going to do that temporarily,” Obama said, referring to Newsom’s views on the California plan. “I think that approach is a sensible, measured approach designed to address a very specific problem at a very specific moment.”
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