Gov. Newsom's proposed redistricting could put Valley Republican seats at risk

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- California's Republican legislature seats could soon beryllium successful the crosshairs arsenic Governor Newsom issues a challenge.

"We person got to combat occurrence with fire," Newsom said connected Friday.

He was flanked by Texas Democrats who were successful Sacramento to talk retired arsenic Texas Republicans see redrawing legislature districts to perchance summation much seats successful the House during the midterms for their party.

"The crippled has changed," Newsom said. "They don't adjacent privation to play by the aforesaid acceptable of rules."

Newsom said if Texas tips the standard for Republicans, California volition bash the aforesaid for Democrats.

"We privation to play the crippled connected the presumption wherever everybody is playing by the aforesaid acceptable of rules," Newsom said. "That's nary longer the case. We person to disenthrall ourselves that that's the case. Not with Donald Trump."

President Trump's docket hinges connected the equilibrium of powerfulness successful Congress, wherever Republicans successful the House person a razor-thin majority, a borderline of 7 seats.

"Typically, a president, erstwhile they spell done a midterm election, their enactment loses during that election," Blake Zante, the Executive Director of the Maddy Institute, said.

He believes redistricting could ripple done the Valley, wherever Congressmen Tom McClintock, David Valadao, and Vince Fong marque up 3 of the state's 9 GOP seats.

They are immoderate of the tightest legislature districts successful the country.

"Many of those districts could extremity up getting consolidated or, if Newsom pushes done his connection to effort to redraw immoderate seats to favour Democrats, we could spot those seats going away," Zante said.

With the Valley interaction looming large, Valley lawmakers could beryllium key.

"I don't deliberation it should beryllium a contention to the bottom," Fresno Republican Assemblymember David Tangipa said.

He is among the lawmakers successful the authorities legislature who would person to ballot connected Newsom's plan.

"I'll accidental this, gerrymandering 1 mode oregon the other, whether it's for Republicans oregon Democrats, is not thing I support," helium said.

California voters approved an autarkic redistricting committee successful 2010.

It is unclear however rapidly Governor Newsom's program could inquire them to reverse that.

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