Sacramento, California (AP) – California voters will decide in November whether they will agree to the re -drawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win seats in the US House of Representatives next year, after the Republic of Texas advanced their re -drawn map to provide the majority of their home with the same number of seats in urging President Donald Trump.
California lawmakers often voted by the party on Thursday to agree to legislation calling for special elections. The governor of the Democratic State Gavin News, who led the campaign in favor of the map, then signed it quickly-is the latest step in a battle that reaches fashion.
“We do not want this battle and do not choose this battle, but with our democracy at stake, we will not escape from this battle,” said Mark Berman, a member of the Democratic Society, Mark Berman.
Republicans, who filed a lawsuit and called for a federal investigation into the plan, promised to continue its fight.
California member James Gallagher, the leader of the Republican minority, said that Trump was “wrong” to pay for new Republican seats elsewhere, claiming that the president was only responding to democratic penetration in other states. But he warned that the NewSom approach, which the ruler called “fighting fire with fire”, was dangerous.
“You are coming forward to fight fire with fire and what is happening?” Gallaghar asked. “You burn everything.”
In Texas, the Senate was scheduled to vote for the Republican, which was controlled by Republicans on a map of Thursday night. After that, the signature of the Republican ruler Greg Abbott will be all required to make the map responsible. It is part of Trump’s efforts to avoid the expected loss of the majority of the Republican Party at the American House in the mid -term elections.
A battle for control of the American house that was launched by re -dividing the circles
At the national level, partisan makeup is placed for the current democratic regions in three seats for the majority. The current president’s party usually loses Congress seats in the middle of the period.
The President pushed other states controlled by Republicans, including Indiana and Missouri, to also review their maps to add more Republican Party seats. It was already decided by Ohio Republics to review their maps to make them more partisan.
The US Supreme Court said that the constitution is not prohibited from partisan partisan, only using the race to redraw the boycott lines. Republicans in Texas embraced that when the House of Representatives acknowledged it on Wednesday. “
Representative Todd Hunter, the Republican who wrote the draft law that declined Texas maps, said that the primary goal of this plan is directly the front: Improving Republican political performance.
On Thursday, California Democrats noticed Hunter’s comments and said they had to take extremist steps to confront the Republic step. “What do we do, just sit down and do nothing? Or are we fighting?” Democratic Senator Senator Lina Gonzalez said. “This is the way we fight and protect our democracy.”
Democrats sought a national committee to re -divide the circles
Republicans and some Democrats defended the 2008 polling scale that established the California Re -Divide Division Committee, along with 2010, which extended its role in the Congress maps.
Democrats sought a national committee that would draw lines for all states, but they were unable to pass the legislation of this system.
In a short mid -period, Trump’s trick transformed Democrats.
This was evident in California, where newsoms were one of his party members who supported the preams of the initial re -distribution committee, and where the Parliament member Joshua Lental, whose father, MP Alain Lonetal, was another democratic hero of the non -party committee, on the passage of the association’s package of the state.
Former President Barack Obama, who has also supported a non -party approach worldwide, has also supported the news of the California map, saying it is a necessary step to avoid Texas’s move to the Republican Party.
“I think this approach is an intelligent and scale,” Obama said, noting that California voters will eventually be on the map.
California plan temporary
The California map will continue until 2030 only, when the state committee will set a new map of the normal fall, once after the decade to seize the boycott lines after the US census. Democrats also reopen Maryland and New York maps for a review in the middle of the nodes.
However, the states run by more than democracy have commission systems such as the borders of California or other limits of re -dividing the circles of Republicans, leaving the Republican Party with a free hand to quickly draw maps. For example, New York cannot draw new maps until 2028, and even then with the consent of the voters.
In Texas, the Democrats, whose number exceeded unusual steps to try to delay traffic, has turned the state to delay the 15 -day vote. Upon their return, they were appointed police control around the clock.
Republicans in California did not take such dramatic steps, but they complained bitterly from the Democrats who assembled the package through the state’s house and harmed what Senator Tony Strickland described as the Republican Party as partisan organization.
“What you seek is the previously defined elections,” said Strickland. “You take the sound away from the inhabitants of California.”
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The story has been updated to correct that partisan makeup of the current areas puts Democrats in three seats for the majority, instead of the Republicans controlling the United States Council with three votes. The first name of the Republican minority leader at the California Association was corrected to James, instead of Mike.
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Ricardi mentioned from Denver. The Associated Press Gim Vertono correspondent in Austin, Texas.