OAKLAND, Calif. - There's one topic currently dominating California's political landscape: Proposition 50, an effort to redraw the state's congressional maps in order to create five new Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The proposal, called the Election Rigging Response Act, is California lawmakers' response to Texas lawmakers enacting a similar change in their state earlier this year.

Texas legislators in August revealed redrawn congressional maps that gave the Republican majority five additional seats in Congress . The redistricting came at the urging of Donald Trump, who in July ordered Texas governor Greg Abbot t to carve out additional Republican-leaning districts in order to bolster the party's chances to maintain control of the House of Representatives a

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