California candidates are changing areas of new Prop cards. 50

From Maya K. MillerCalmness

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Governor Gavin News plan to redirect California Congress Card launches a game of music chairs, as candidates evaluate which areas will enter and see new opportunities to jump in areas that have not been competitive before.

Some have already announced plans to switch the areas if the voters approve the new cards in November.

“The chaos gave birth to politics and we are currently experiencing,” says Katie Meryl, a veteran democratic political strategist and a campaign consultant. “Essentially opens more doors than it closes.”

Voters in November will be asked to approve Newsom’s proposal to dispose of Congress cards, drawn up four years ago by the independent citizen redistribution committee in California and temporarily accept guerrilla cards, which Gerimander regions in favor of the Democrats. Newsom’s terrain came in response to President Donald Trump’s request that Republican countries redirect their cards to harden the uncertain Republican majority in the House in 2026. If GOP loses the Chamber, Trump will face significant obstacles to his daily order.

Marnie von Wilper, a democratic member of the San Diego Municipal Council, who transferred the most conservative area of ​​the city in 2020, dives with his head through one of these newly opened doors. The 42-year-old former employee of the Chamber’s Work Committee has recently announced that he will challenge the Republican Republic of Darrell Isa, the 11th acting, in the new proposed 48.

“When the lines were diverted, it opened a valuable opportunity,” von Wilpert told Calmatters. She said that a more LGBTQ Democrat like her had a much stronger chance of taking Isa under the proposed cards, which add more registered Democrats to the voter pool.

Several democratic hopes of the congress, and at least one Republican, have signaled that they will also change areas if voters accept new cards. Democrats Brandon Ricker, Anui Dixit and Abel Chavez, who have been asking them to run against the longtime Republican Republican Republic reporter Ken Calvert, have announced that they will be focused against Isa if the voters approve of the cards in November.

Dixit, lawyer for voting rights, Declared on social media that he will struggle to cross the Newsom redistribution plan and challenge Isa.

Ricker, an entrepreneur who previously runs for Lieutenant Governor Vermont in 2016, chose a less outright pro-Prop. 50 Languages ​​and instead is committed to managing any area containing its home base from Palm Springs.

“Both Calvert and Isa vote against families in California and avoid their voters,” Ricker said in a statement. “No matter where the boundaries fall, I joined this race to present my community at Palm Springs,” he added. “If we don’t stop Trump’s madness, the Californians will suffer.”

Ricker said he would continue to actively campaign in both areas until the voters arrange the cards in November. Chavez, a former teacher and now president of the local school board in Nuevo, similarly defended his decision to switch the regions as a choice of presenting his home community and refrain from any pro-prop. 50 language in his Social Media messageS

Even Republican Kevin Lincoln looks at the regional swap if voters approve of new cards.

Lincoln, The Former Mayor of Stockton, Has Already Launched a Rematch Campaign Against Democratic Incumbent Rep. Josh Harder, to Whom He Lost in 2024. But IF Voters Embrace The New Maps, Lincoln Has Indicated He Might Instead Challenge The More Vulnerangle Democratic Rep. Adam Gray, Whose District Under the New Maps Is Gerrymandered to Capture Part of Stockton’s Downtown Core.

Prop. 50 delay is a grace for Democrats

Instead of waiting for a final sentence for support 50, candidates continue forward with the commitment of voters and raising funds as much as they can, even without guarantee that the new cards will prevail. This is the right strategy for the Democrats, said Meryl, the democratic strategist, given that there will be enough time to raise funds and approval after November 4.

“Everyone has to pop up there and start the race,” Meryl said. “They have to bet on their ground so that they freeze other candidates to jump. They send signals to approving groups and donors for what they intend to do.”

The fight for support 50, which is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, which could otherwise be directed to individual candidates – in fact, it can benefit from the Democrats, although it slows down their ability to raise funds and raise approvals.

Merrill noted that Mabourmy House’s Pac, Super Pac, brought to the House’s home management, has already contributed $ 5 million to the yes. 50. But, Meryl noted, if the group could extract five new democratic places from California, this investment decreases compared to what would otherwise be multimillion -dollar battles in each of the competitive regions of the country.

“For them, this is the most effective use of the money you can think of,” Meryl told Super Pac

But for the Republican competitors who will encounter an even bigger battle, if the voters approve of the processed cards, the expensive support 50 fights risks overcoming key funds that would otherwise go to candidates.

“We need money today, not tomorrow, because money gives birth to money and inertia gives rise to inertia,” said Sam, a consultant on the Republican campaign, which works with the Lincoln campaign, as well as with the current Republican reporter Young Kim.

In 2020 and 2022, Oh helped Kim and former Republican representative Michelle Steel to explode in two places for the swing of Orange County. The new proposed maps are far more democrats in these areas to increase support for vulnerable repetitions. Dave Min and Derek Tran, which beat the steel in 2024 to turn the blue seat.

If they want racing competitions next November, said O, Republican donors should give the candidates directly in addition to the support of anti-profit. 50 campaign.

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