Deep in the wasteland of failure, Democrats soul-searching on what went wrong last November, patched it with more than a thousand ways of thinking, and desperately cast a strategy to restart the stagnant party.
In the noise, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently advocated an unlikely game plan: forgetting the highway, putting out the fire with fires, and accepting tactics long-condemned by the U.S.-German Democrats.
Can the dark art of politically picky lift democracy out of things in Trump’s increasingly authoritarian impulses? Essentially, it’s news to pay tribute to California voters through his bold new special campaign.
As Texas Democrats dig out the redistribution drive and the power that beat him to consolidate power, Newsom hopes to remake California’s own congressional district in support of Democrats.
His goal is to fight back against Trump’s motivation to drive more Republican housing seats with his own strength.
This is a gamble of border elimination and will undoubtedly achieve Newsom’s political star in the short term. Long-term glory may be even more grand, but only if he makes it stand out. The ballot box slippers are cruel to Newsom and his party.
The charming California governor, who was called a resignation in 2026, has no secret to his 2028 presidential ambitions.
But in some parts of California, the unique scent of his hometown will be hard to completely shed, and California is synonymous with fool left-handed, murder business regulation and out-of-control homelessness crisis. Needless to say Newsom’s bad luck dinner at an elite restaurant in Napa violated Agreement 19, a failed recall attempt and still plagued the governor’s national reputation.
The re-divided gambit is a large drama that can redefine how voters across the country view Newsom.
Democratic strategist Steven Maviglio said that the strategy could be news magazine’s 2028 ambitions at the moment Democrats are eager for leaders. But it’s also a lot of dice from Newsom and the country he leads.
“If this goes by, it’s a great politics for him,” Maviglio said. “If it fails, he’s dead in the water.”
The path forward (which can determine the 2026 Congress control) has almost no direct shots.
Newsom named his voting measures, the “Election Manipulation Response Act” will temporarily repeal the state’s voter-approved congressional district Independent redistricting committee.
Under the proposal, Democrats can take five seats currently in the Republicans, while strengthening incumbent representatives of the vulnerable Democrats. Adam Gray, Josh Harder, George Whitesides, Derek Tran and Derek Tran and Deve Min, which will save the party millions of dollars in expensive battles.
But first, the Democratic-led state legislature must vote to put the measure in the Nov. 4 vote and then must be approved by voters.
If passed, the program will have a “trigger”, which means that unless Texas or another Republican-led state works with its own energy, redrawing of maps will not take effect.
“I think what the Governor’s News Agency and other Democrats do here is the right thing we need to do,” Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin said Thursday.
“We won’t bring pencils to the tool. We’re going to bring the bazooka into the tool fight, right? This isn’t your grandfather’s Democratic Party.” Martin added that they shouldn’t be the only set of rules that no longer exist.
For Democrats like Rep. Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), they started working with Newsom to temporarily put their commitment to re-dividing independence for a while is “heartbreaking.” But she and others were awakened at the need to stop the president from “willing to rule the election in the middle of the journey.”
Friedman said she was hearing overwhelmingly positive reactions from proposals from various local democratic groups.
“The response I got was, ‘Finally, we were fighting. We had a fight back that was tangible.’
Nevertheless, despite the state’s democratic voter registration advantages, the victory of the voting measures is hardly guaranteed. Over the past two decades, two rallies of California voters have been re-divided independently in the ballot box, and many may have difficulty giving up these beliefs.
one Politico-Citrin Center-Prablesibility Lab Poll Discover Voters prefer to put independent groups in place to attract regional lines with nearly two-to-one profits, and independent re-divisions are widely popular in the state.
(Newsom’s Media Office debate The poll was poorly worded because it was asked to get rid of the Independent Commission completely and return the marking power to the legislators permanently, rather than just temporarily replacing their work for several cycles until the Independent Commission next draws a new line.
However, California voters should not expect to see a special election campaign focused on reconfiguring details of the state’s congressional area.
While many opponents may attack the change, as the will of California voters weakened the will of California voters who overwhelmed the weeding politics in the regional eradication process, News Agency used the campaign as a referendum on Trump and him to give Republicans control over Congress’ efforts.
Newsom adopted a similar strategy when dismantling the Republican-led recall movement in 2021, which the governor described as a “life and death” battle with “Trumpism” and far-right anti-vaccine and trans activists. This information proved to be very effective among California’s Democratic voters.
“Wake up, America,” Newsom said Thursday at a rally in Los Angeles, launching the campaign for reallocation measures. “Wake up what Donald Trump did. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up, wake up, attacking institutions, knowledge and history. Wake up his war on science, public health, public health, war against the American people.”
Democratic strategist Kevin Liao, who has worked in national and statewide campaigns, said his DC and California political group chat has been exploding in recent days about the moment Newsom created for himself.
Most of Liao’s group chat feed involves the output of Newsom’s digital team, which has promoted the trolls to its official @GovPressOffice art form on social media site X.
These omissions largely mimic the president’s own social media patois, exaggeration, small insults and a great reliance on the “cap lock” key.
“Donald is over – he is no longer ‘Hot’. First, the hand (so small), now I – Gavin C. Newsom, has taken his “steps”,” a post read last week was faithfully reposted by the governor himself.
Some information also ends with Newsom’s abbreviation (an impromptu on Trump’s signature “DJT” signature) and is scattered in key Trump callbacks such as “Liberation Day,” or Newsom’s Smiling Mien’s Liberation Day or the cover of This Dishered Time magazine. The account has gained 150,000 new followers since the beginning of this month.
Shortly after Trump took office in January, Newsom took a thin line between criticizing the president and his policies and more diplomacy, especially after California wildfires – hoping to call on any sympathy and presidential responsibility Trump has.
Newsom attempted to reshape California in the first few months of the new administration – Trump’s narrative that dominated the president’s first term and got rid of his party’s previous brand of “resistance”.
Those proposals for reconciliation coincide with Newsom’s embrace of more general postures, hosting Maga leaders on podcasts and playing a role in trans athletes’ participation in women’s movements that conflict with the Democratic orthodoxy.
Newsom insists that he participated in these conversations to better understand his political views, especially after Trump’s victory in November. However, there is an ambitious politician who tries to expand his national appeal by moving away from his reputation as a West Coast liberal.
Newsom is reluctant to read Trump’s resistance to the mantle as the president sends the California National Guard into Los Angeles amid protests sweeping in June and ensuing immigration. Newsom said the actions revealed Trump’s unrestricted fighting spirit and lack of morality and honor.
Recently, Newsom defended the teenage tone of his media aide, mocking Trump’s own full hat and questioning why critics would laugh at his parody rather than the president’s own unbounded social media rhetoric.
“If you have questions about what I’ve launched, you’re sure Hell should be concerned about his launch as president,” Newsom said last week. “So, to some extent, it’s caught people’s attention and I’m glad.”
In an unwieldy economy, half of the battles stand out, these postal services shine with unapologetic swagger. They clearly show that Newsom is joking.
“For some people who operate under the old rules, it can be seen as, ‘Wow, that’s really weird.’ But I think they’re counting people Democrats want to play under the new rules established by Trump.
The moment the denouncing after the Democrats were still defeated and the vision of quarantine boarded, Newsom came up with something similar to the plan from the swamp.
He is willing to bet on the house with the will of fire fighting in his deep blue state.
Times staff workers Seema Mehta and Laura Nelson contributed to the report.
