It didn’t take long after polls closed on Tuesday night for the special election to be called in favor of the redistricting ballot measure .

It took, perhaps, even less time for those on the Proposition 50 opposition side, largely state Republicans, to begin pointing fingers at who was to blame for their side’s failure.

After all, the side that vowed to fight Proposition 50 at the ballot box back in August, when Gov. Gavin Newsom kicked off the redistricting campaign , went into Election Day far outfunded and out-energized.

California voters overwhelmingly backed Proposition 50, the effort meant to boost the number of Democratic-friendly congressional seats in California to offset similar mid-cycle efforts in other states to benefit Republicans.

Since the election, criticisms have

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