New polling of California voters shows strong support for temporarily changing the state’s process of drawing congressional boundaries in order to diminish the effects of a nationwide Republican gerrymandering scheme.

At the behest of the Trump administration, several GOP-led states have either started or completed redistricting processes to give their party added advantages in next year’s midterm elections. Traditionally, the party opposite of the president’s fares much better in such elections, but the plan by federal Republicans aims to lessen potential losses by increasing the number of U.S. House seats the GOP will likely win in November 2026.

In response to the GOP scheme, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed a new ballot measure this past summer, Proposition 50 , that aim

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