Caucuses were briefed. Polls are being shared. And the push to swing California bluer is taking shape.
California’s Texas-thwarting gerrymander has swiftly transformed from fantasy to reality.
Democrats in the House and the state Legislature are coalescing around a plan to draw a half-dozen Republican incumbents into oblivion — and persuade California voters to approve the new congressional maps before next year’s midterms. Party leaders are closely tracking the dual-track developments in which lawmakers in Texas and California are moving, in partisan parallel, to shore up their respective party’s House majorities. California Republicans are casting about for a way to avoid extinction.
It all points to a high-stakes, big-dollar brawl thrusting California to the center of the political universe.
California’s actions have nothing to do with keeping Texas from becoming less democratic. They are thwarting Texas’ attempt to help secure republican control of the US House of Representatives and maybe stopping or at least slowing down the fascist take over of the country.
If it helps take the House away from the GOP and limits the damage Trump can do in the following two years, I’m all for it. If blue states do nothing, then the GOP could end up securing an unassailable majority in the US House of Reps just like they’ve done in so many state legislatures.