CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D) offered a truce on redistricting Monday, telling President Donald Trump in a letter that he would scrap plans to redraw the state’s congressional maps if Trump called off similar efforts in Republican-led states.
- Texas legislators are moving ahead with redrawing the state’s congressional districts to boost Republicans ahead of next year’s election, at Trump’s urging, prompting Newsom to threaten a round of tit-for-tat unusual redistricting.
- “You are playing with fire, risking the destabilization of our democracy, while knowing that California can neutralize any gains you hope to make,” Newsom said in the letter.
- The ...