Californians go to the polls Tuesday in a ballot likely to further tilt the liberal state towards the Democrats, as the party seeks to neutralize gerrymandering ordered by President Donald Trump.

Governor Gavin Newsom and his allies want voters to approve a temporary re-drawing of electoral districts that would give the Democratic Party five more seats in the scramble for control of the US Congress in next year's midterm elections.

They say they are only doing it to level the playing field after Texas Republicans pushed through their own redistricting -- under White House pressure -- to help maintain a narrow Congressional majority that has so far given Trump carte blanche.

Republicans say it is a naked power grab that will disenfranchise the party's voters in California, a state where

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