The national redistricting battle enters its next phase with California Democrats scheduled Thursday to pass a new congressional map for voters to consider in November that would create five more winnable seats for their party, a direct counter to the GOP Texas House members imposing a new map on their state's voters at the urging of President Donald Trump.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has engineered the high-risk strategy in response to Trump’s brinkmanship in Texas, where passage by the Republican-controlled state Senate and signature by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott are now all that’s needed to make the maps official. California by contrast has an independent commission and only a voter-approved ballot measure can override the current map.

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