California Democrats were set Thursday to pass a redistricting map to add up to five blue congressional seats after Texas Republicans rubber-stamped President Trump’s mid-decade gerrymander plan that would give the GOP a similar edge in the Lone Star State.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is championing the aggressive high-stakes Democratic effort to strike back at Trump’s Texas power grab as the two parties jostle for a political advantage in next year’s midterms and beyond.

The likely Democratic 2028 White House contender tweeted “Triggered?” at Trump after the president accused him of “destroying the great state of California” in a post on his social media site.

California Democrats were poised to use their legislative supermajority to approve the new congressional map , which Newsom could t

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