LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday entered the national battle over U.S. House control, urging voters to reject a California ballot proposal to rejigger districts that he said would erode democratic principles and allow politicians to “take the power away from the people.”
“It is insane,” the former Republican governor and action-movie star said of Democratic-backed Proposition 50, a November ballot initiative intended to add five Democratic U.S. House seats in California to offset President Donald Trump's moves in Texas to gain five Republican districts before the 2026 midterm elections.
“It doesn’t make any sense to me that because we have to fight Trump, to become Trump,” Schwarzenegger said. “Two wrongs don’t make a right.”
The proposal championed by Democratic Gov.