Newsom’s Election Rigging Act Passes; CA Congressional Republicans Are on the Brink of Extinction
- California voters approved a plan that hands mapmaking to partisan operatives.
- Proposition 50 overturns the independent commission’s maps and targets Republican voters.
- Republican turnout lagged and leadership failed to mount an effective resistance.
- This change could shrink the California GOP’s congressional influence for years.
California’s Election Rigging Act, Proposition 50, passed and it does exactly what its name promises: it tosses aside the maps crafted by the state constitution-mandated independent redistricting commission and replaces them with maps drawn by Democratic operatives and the DCCC.
Newsom sold this as a defensive move against a supposed Trump power grab, but the truth is blunt — he expedited the measure before Texas finished its own redistricting decisions so he could reshape California politics on his timetable.
With the vote called quickly, Democrats can now boast of voter-approved gerrymandering that will likely decimate the state’s Republican congressional delegation and lock in partisan advantage.
Republicans promised a big fight: names like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin McCarthy, and Charles Munger Jr. talked about pouring money into opposition efforts, but the actual push never matched the rhetoric and much of that energy never materialized on the ground.
Schwarzenegger spent crucial campaign weeks abroad and never led a statewide barnstorm in opposition, a failing move critics say left the No on 50 campaign rudderless at a critical moment.
Voter integrity concerns lingered through the cycle, from transparent ballot return envelopes in some counties to alleged holes that could reveal votes, and many Republicans warned these issues would depress faith in the system long term.
Republican turnout never recovered to match Democrat enthusiasm; Elizabeth Barcohana noted millions of GOP voters didn’t cast ballots and blamed a failure of effort and urgency more than a numbers problem.
But California’s most popular Republican — and the last to have any real relevance in state politics — did little to make that case to voters. Instead of barnstorming the state in opposition to the measure on Tuesday’s ballot, Schwarzenegger spent a key stretch this fall cavorting across Europe, leading a life that one adviser likened to that of “a real-life Forrest Gump.”
The story isn’t over: legal challenges and federal scrutiny are on the table, and President Trump signaled that mail-in ballots in the state are “under very serious legal and criminal review.”
It is the night before Election Day
4 Million California Republicans still haven’t voted
Those 4 Million voters alone could have beaten the 3.3 Million Democrats who voted so far, but they surrendered. We don’t have a numbers or cheating problem. We have a laziness problem.
Democrat turnout took off on October 18th, while Republican and Independent turnout stayed shallow, almost flat, even after in person voting started on the 25th.
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