Republicans split up for the role of Newsom in the redistribution of battle

From Alexey KossefCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

Ever since the first the person of a reassignment plan California Congress lines in favor of Democrats.

Now, as a country Make a special election on November 4 In which voters will decide whether to accept a new Gerrymandered card, opponents are struggling with how much to center Newsom in their campaign to win the proposal.

At the California Republican Party Convention in Garden Grove last weekend – aimed at mobilizing conservatives against the Newsom measure, known as the Proposal 50 – the Governor was a curious minor presence.

In strategic sessions and trainings, GOP leaders have largely looked beyond Newsom, whose slippery style, celebrity growth and undoubtedly liberal policy have been offering delicious foil to California Republicans for years. Even the tables of goods were missing their usual tariff depicting the governor as a dictator with Hitler’s mustache.

“I don’t think it’s about Gavin Newpom. She said the party would perform a voice extraction operation that teaches Republicans about how the new card would effectively deprive their right to choose who represents them.

“We will make sure that the fine seal is with bold letters and people see what they are voting for and that they are not fooled again by the Democratic Party,” Rankin said.

Do it for the card

During a presentation on Saturday afternoon about the legal challenges of the redistribution of Gambit, the chairman of the Republican Party of Orange Will O’Neal told the participants in his most effective conversation to defeat a proposal 50 was simply to show the voters of the new card.

The Newsom plan will throw away the congress areas withdrawn by an independent civil committee in 2021 and accept lines that Turn the guerrilla bow to five republican places As you reduce the advantage of democratic registration in five more districts of swinging. The GoP can remain with only four of the 52nd places in California in the House of US Representatives.

O’Neal told the delegates to find the most “absurd” changes in their communities and publish them on social media. He pointed out a proposed neighborhood around Lake Taho, which was compared to an elephant’s head because of the trunk -shaped blood, which embarks on the highly democratic suburbs of Sacramento, and a line drawn in the middle of a residential street in Viicho mission, dividing houses on both sides.

In order to win, O’Neal said in an interview, Republicans have to expand the election in order to relate to the pernicious effects of a proposal 50 and reach the huge majority of Californians who do not live in online hyper -party circles. Only 25%of voters in the state are registered Republican, compared to 45%, which are registered democratic and 22%, which have no preferences of the party.

“Whether the person likes Donald Trump or Gavin Newpom, it’s not really the problem,” O’Neal said. “If this is direct Republican against democratic elections, we lose.”

There is no avoidance of Newsom

For many voters, the proposal 50 will be a choice between Newsom and Trump. This is exactly how Newsom himself put it.

The Governor has begun Speaking of redistribution in JulyAfter Trump pressed the Republicans in Texas to convene a special session to redirect the state map of the Congress and to strengthen the narrow control of the GOP Chamber. The new lines in Texas will Probably flying five democratic places Republicans.

NEWSOM claims that California’s revenge was necessary to save democracy – it retains the chances of Democrats to win the house in the average time in 2026 and prevent Trump from dragging the United States into authoritarianism.

The president, who remains deeply unpopular in California, is everywhere in the Newsom campaign for a proposal 50, which he called the “Law on Responding to the Arrangement election”. This echoes the governor A successful strategy to defeat an attempt to download In 2021

But Newsom is also everywhere. He is a prominent place in One of the first campaign adswhich includes staff from a rally he held in Los Angeles last month to call on voters to “defend our democracy”.

And some opponents put Newsom at the head of the voters.

Former GOP chairman Jessica Milan Patterson leads one of the campaigns against the measure that took the name Not at 50 – Stop Power Grab on NewsomS She said in an interview that Newsom “turns out to be Republicans” who are disappointed with their belief that he treated his government as only a stepped stone in the White House.

This makes Newsom a powerful symbol of what Patterson called “corruption and those rear -room deals when Sacramento politicians have this type of power” to draw up their own areas, which in this case will leave huge parts of conservative californians without a representation in Washington.

“It’s a sense of justice. I think people really fire for it,” Patterson said. “We will make sure that the rest of the country sees that even the Californians do not fall for his lame vanity project here.”

Separate Campaign Strategy

Around the Convention, a member of the Assembly David Tangipa It was a rare voice proposal 50 for Newsom. He urged those present to ask everyone that they know one question: Is Gavin Newsom deserving more power?

Tangipa, a Republican from Freen, said he was expecting this issue to carry weight even in a highly democratic California, because enough people were awakened by the problems created by the liberal policies of the state. The voters, he noted, predominantly approve of the offense of a crime Last year, this Newsom fiercely opposed.

“He is not campaigning for a redistribution. He is campaigning to combat Trump,” Tangipa said. “They like that we want to get into facts and data and everything else, and they come into emotion.”

Not everyone is so convinced. Olivia Valentin, President of the Republican Assembly of Hottarn Loudeale Gardena, was in search of signs of doors and other materials she could use to reflect a proposal 50. She said she would refrain from breaking Newsom because he did not want voters to think he was a “guerrilla hack.”

“I don’t want this answer. I want them to understand why it will be bad for everyone,” Valentin said. “Everyone has to worry that their voice is being taken away. It’s scary.”

The principal about how much to turn on Newsom – which republicans seem equally convinced, uses the redistribution struggle to strengthen its prospects in Expected presidential running in 2028. – You can see everywhere in the campaign.

Charles Münger Jr., a longtime California Goad megadonor, who poured millions in the vote measure, which created the independent redistribution committee, conducts his own operation aimed at voters of liberal voters. Ads have a good government message about the inherent corruption of politicians who extract their own areas, avoiding the mention of Newsom and Trump.

Republicans also hope that former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the party’s last state office and another committee champion will unite independent against a proposal 50. Schwarzenegger has Spoken against the measurePublishing online in the T -shirt Turning Gerrymandering, but he has not announced an official role in the campaign.

The motivating factor: Justice

On Saturday morning, the California delegates from the northern state, a deeply conservative zone, which will be cut and redistributed in the areas of democratic clothing under the new congress map, packed in a small ballroom of the hotel.

Most are currently represented by Rep. Doug Lamalfa, a Republican of Chico, whose head of headquarters Mark Spanagel visited the session to discuss the bifourced strategy to win a proposal 50.

“What motivates our right center are not the littered things that will motivate our friends on the left,” he said. “So you have to talk to them differently and you have to motivate them differently.”

Then Johan Lasaga, chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Juba County, steps on the front to show a campaign sign that she made: black and yellow, including simple language (“Not 50: Protecting Elections for Fair”) without mentioning Newsom.

It had thousands of available delegates to buy and distribute around their communities. She asked if anyone had property on the highway where they would be ready to hang banners who could see drivers – even liberals who could be attracted to a deliberately non -partisan message.

In an interview, Lasaga said she was deeply worried about the loss of a member of Congress, which of course her rural communities. Her family rice and cattle farms and she does not believe that a democratic representative from a more city area would fight for them to get water.

But Lasaga said he was trying to lift people by focusing on what they could do to win. She trusts the “power of seven” – encourages everyone to tell seven people who know, vote against a proposal 50, and then made them pass the word to seven others. She has recently been talking to the dealer sellers where her husband bought a new car.

“We can’t sit and rotate in our self -pity,” she said. “The whole thing is a multi -stage marketing scheme without a product.”

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