California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has styled the “special election” he has called to approve gerrymandered congressional maps as a referendum on President Donald Trump. But it is really a referendum on Newsom.

If voters think that Newsom is right to spend $250 million on a partisan referendum when tens of thousands of people in cash-strapped California are still displaced by wildfires, they deserve what they get — or won’t.

A vote for Proposition 50 — the gerrymandering resolution — virtually guarantees that California will not see a single dollar of the $40 billion that Newsom has asked the federal government to provide for fire relief.

Since asking for that money months ago, Newsom has been attacking Trump in every way possible, even using his official press office social media account

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