Gov. Gavin Newsom officially launched his campaign to redraw California’s congressional districts — meant to favor Democrats in the state as a counter to similar, Republican-led efforts elsewhere in the country — with a rally largely focused on immigration.

Newsom, flanked by California’s Democratic leaders at the Japanese American Museum’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in downtown Los Angeles, said California voters would be tasked with approving new congressional maps for next year’s midterm elections with a special election in November.

Standing behind a podium labeled “Election Rigging Response Act” in red and white, Newsom made good on his warning to President Donald Trump that the nation’s most populous state won’t sit idly by while Republicans in Texas, a

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