How ‘screw Trump’ messaging may help California’s Proposition 50 prevail

<p>Republican opposition to the effort to give House Democrats more safe seats may be no match for the fact that Californians really don’t like Trump</p><p>There are many ways to characterize Proposition 50, the single ballot initiative that Californians will be voting on this election season.</p><p>You could say it’s about redrawing congressional district lines outside the regular once-a-decade schedule. You could say, more precisely, that it’s about counterbalancing Republican efforts to engineer congressional seats in their favor in Texas and elsewhere with a gerrymander that favors the Democrats. You could, like the measure’s detractors, call it a partisan power grab that risks undermining 15 years of careful work to make California’s congressional elections as fair and competitive as possible.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/25/california-prop-50-trump-redistricting">Continue reading...</a>