Convincing California voters to approve his “fight fire with fire” plan to draw up new congressional district maps might prove a heavy lift for Gov. Gavin Newsom.

A poll conducted by Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab found that just 36% of state voters support putting redistricting back in the hands of the state Legislature. That compares to 64% favoring the independent redistricting commission.

The pollsters conducted interviews with 1,445 registered voters in English and Spanish from Monday, July 28, to Tuesday, Aug. 12, and the poll has a modeling error estimate of 2.6 percentage points.

Back in 2010, when Californians approved having the commission — not the Legislature — draw congressional boundaries, 61.3% of voters said yes to Proposition 20.

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