California Gov. Gavin Newsom told Donald Trump on Tuesday that the president had missed the deadline to pull back from creating “illegal crooked maps” in red states to manipulate coming elections.
As a result, Newsom indicated the nation’s most populous state would “redraw the maps in California to offset the rigging of maps in red states.” He further promised that the results would be “historic as they will end the Trump Presidency” and result in the Democrats “taking back the House.”
On Monday, Newsom went public with a letter to Trump that laid out his demands.
“I am writing to ask you to call on the governor of Texas and other red states, who are acting on your request to draw new congressional maps through an unprecedented, mid-decade hyper-partisan gerrymander to rig the upco