Gov. Gavin Newsom has raised roughly $70 million in less than two months for the California ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional lines, with the family of prominent Democratic financier George Soros recently kicking in $10 million, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising.

And it comes at a moment when President Donald Trump has explicitly called for Soros and his son Alex to be investigated as part of an escalation of his efforts to clamp down on political opposition.

Newsom has cast the measure, Proposition 50, as a way for Democrats to counter efforts by Trump and his allies to squeeze more safe districts out of red states before the 2026 midterms. Texas has already approved new gerrymandered maps that deliver as many as five new Republican seats

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