Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday officially revealed his controversial gerrymandering plan to grab five or six U.S. House of Representatives seats now held by California Republicans and deliver them to Democrats in a bid to counter a similar move by Republicans in Texas that President Donald Trump pushed.

Newsom touted his plan to create more Democrat-dominated districts shortly after about a dozen armed and masked U.S. Border Patrol agents in military-style fatigues appeared outside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles where he was to speak, a move the governor called “pretty sick and pathetic.”

Maps detailing the redistricting would be released in the next few days, Newsom said. He said he believed he would have the two-thirds vote in both houses of the state legislature n

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