Gov. Gavin Newsom is making a big gamble with his new special election campaign.

The proposal aims to temporarily scrap California’s independently-drawn congressional lines in favor of districts that favor Democrats.

If successful, the gambit could supercharge Newsom’s national political star. But a ballot-box flop would be brutal for both him and his party.

Deep in the badlands of defeat, Democrats have soul-searched about what went wrong last November, tinkered with a thousand-plus thinkpieces and desperately cast for a strategy to reboot their stalled-out party.

Amid the noise, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has recently championed an unlikely game plan: Forget the high road, fight fire with fire and embrace the very tactics that virtue-minded Democrats have long decried.

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