Gov. Gavin Newsom joined statewide Democratic leaders in downtown Los Angeles Thursday to announce a Nov. 4 ballot measure that would redraw California’s congressional districts to add more Democrat seats in the U.S. House — countering a similar move in Texas aimed at bolstering the GOP’s hold on Congress.

The highly anticipated announcement, which was hyped by the governor himself with a series of social media posts this week taunting President Donald Trump, became more of a spectacle when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a raid outside the Little Tokyo venue where Newsom was speaking.

“You think it’s coincidental?” Newsom asked the partisan crowd at his news conference. “Donald Trump and his minions … decided coincidentally or not that this was a location to advance

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