The debate over California’s Proposition 50 essentially boils down to one question: do California voters dislike President Trump so much that they disregard their own opposition to blatantly partisan gerrymandering?

Gov. Gavin Newsom certainly thinks so, and he is risking an immense amount of political capital in the process.

Indeed, as Newsom sees it, this fight against Trump is existential. Last Tuesday, the governor said that if the ballot measure does not pass, “we’ll lose this republic, we’ll lose this democracy.”

Put another way, as Politico reported, Newsom and California Democrats are relying on “internal polling” which “found that voters are more likely to support the issue if its framed in partisan terms as a pushback to Trump.”

Whatever one feels about redistrict

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