House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) condemned California Democrats’ redistricting efforts, calling it Governor Gavin Newsom’s “latest attempt to disenfranchise” voters.
“Unlike other states, California must shred its own Constitution to succeed in its desperate gambit to ‘end the Trump presidency,'” he wrote on social media. “Voters in California and across the nation see through this partisan stunt.”
“Gavin Newsom should spend less time trampling his state’s laws for a blatant power grab, and more time working to change the disastrous, far-left policies that are destroying California. Newsom obviously wants to launch a presidential campaign on the backs of disenfranchised California voters, but it will not work,” Johnson decried, going on to state that Democrats have “played politics” through redistricting for decades.
“Republicans who are following state and federal laws will not be lectured by people who abused the system,” he added. “I have instructed the NRCC to use every measure and resource possible to fight the California Democrats’ illegal power grab. I will continue to lead efforts to defend our House Republican incumbents and grow our majority so that we can continue to deliver on our commonsense, America First agenda.”
Newsom announced the outline of a proposed constitutional amendment called The Election Rigging Response Act, which will go before Californians in November. The amendment “retains California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission and declares state policy supporting the use of fair, nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide” and “temporarily adopts new California congressional districts for use in congressional elections through 2030,” the governor’s office said.
According to the Election Rigging Response Act’s website, President Trump will “seize total power for two more years.”
The measure “draws fair maps that represent California’s diverse communities and ensure our voices aren’t silenced by Republican gerrymandering in other states,” the website claims.
