Obama calls California’s re-division plan “responsible approach” | Barack Obama

Barack Obama Wading in a rare mid-term re-division effort, saying he agrees with the California governor Gavin NewsomPlan to repaint your own state map through hard work and Create a more democratic and friendly regioncalled it a “responsible method”.

“I believe the Governor’s News Agency’s approach is a responsible approach,” Obama said during a fundraiser Tuesday at Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. “He said it would be responsible. We’re not trying to completely maximize it.” “If and when, we’ll just do it,” Obama said. Texas and/or other Republican states begin to take these actions. Otherwise, this will not take effect. ”

Obama also called Newsom’s strategy “measurement” because it is only granted temporarily California The Legislature remakes maps over a decade.

Obama said when pointing out that “political pickiness” is not his “preference” that if Democrats “don’t respond effectively, state governments across the country will not stop, but they don’t seem to believe in the idea of ​​an inclusive, broad democracies.”

According to organizers, the event raised $2 million for the National Democratic Redistributive Commission and its branches, one of which File and support a lawsuit Several states that drew the area in Republicans. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Eric Holder also serves as Attorney General Obama and leads the group.

The former president’s comments came after Texas lawmakers approved plans to redefine the state’s congressional district and passed a new map on Wednesday Donald TrumpBefore the 2026 midterm elections, we hope to tilt the map of the US house.

Voting is 88 Agree, 52 Oppose.

The map could offer Republicans five new home seats in 2026 and took more than two weeks after Democratic lawmakers strike amid what they call a “power grab.” Several lawmakers traveled to states run by Democrats, and the protests eventually laid the foundation for the redistribution battle now taking place nationwide.

In the case of Texas, Democratic governors including Newsom Ways of thinking To strengthen partisan positions by redrawing the U.S. House area, five years from the census number, such procedures have often led to.

In California – In 2010, voters were given the power to map the Congressional map to the Independent Commission with the aim of reducing the process partisanship – Democrats already A suggestion was made This could allow the state’s main political parties to add five U.S. Houses to win the fight Control Congress next year. if Approved by voters In November, the Blueprint could remove Republican House members in almost the most populous states of the United States, with Democrats planning to win 48 of their 52 U.S. House seats, up from 43.

A Republican lawmaker clashed with Democrats and a hearing on the measure turned into a shouting game Tuesday, with the committee voting along the party to advance a new Congressional map. California Democrats can move forward without any Republican vote, and lawmakers are expected to approve the proposed Congressional map and announce Special elections on November 4 By Thursday, get the required voter approval.

Newsom and Democratic leaders say they will require voters to approve their new maps only in the next few elections and return map mapping power to the commission after the 2030 census, and only the Republican state moves forward with a new map. Obama praised that temporary timetable.

“We’re going to do this for the time being because we’re always focusing on where we want to be in the long term,” Obama said. “I think this approach is a clever, measure approach that aims to solve a very specific problem at a very special moment.”

The Associated Press contributed the report