California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) hopes to turn a special election in November on his gerrymandered congressional map into a referendum on President Donald Trump, rather than on his own partisan ambition.

That is the clear picture emerging from his fundraising sources — and from the media, who are falling into line.

Newsom signed bills to place a new congressional map in front of voters in a special election. The new map sets aside the one drawn by a nominally “independent” commission, whose authority was created by the voters in a referendum in 2008, in favor of a map that is explicitly designed to eliminate Republican seats.

The new map would give Democrats at least four additional seats, bringing their total to at least 47 out of California’s 52 seats. Republicans would have fewer t

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