California governor Gavin Newsom has launched an all-out push to counter Donald Trump ’s Texas redistricting with a midterms power grab of his own , and he’s exhibiting considerable gusto for the fight:

Newsom’s eagerness is understandable. At a time when Democrats in California and nationally want more combativeness from their politicians, Newsom is engaging in a personal clash with the 47th president with very high stakes that he claims he can win. If he does indeed succeed in giving Democrats five additional U.S. House seats to offset the five that Texas Republicans are in the process of purloining with a mid-decade redistricting, then he can arguably make himself the face of a Democratic comeback in the midterms at the very moment his own power is ebbing in Sacramento (he’s

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