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Former president Barack Obama On Wednesday, he said he respected the California -Gavino Newsom in the middle of his redistribution plan to add further democratic seats in the Blue State.
“I believe that Governor Newsom’s approach is a responsible approach. He said that this will be responsible. We will not try to maximize him completely,” said Obama in a fundraiser on Tuesday via Marthas vineyard in Massachusetts, according to the excerpts that have been received by the Associated Press.
“We will only do it if and when Texas and/or other republican states start to pull these maneuvers. Otherwise this does not come into force,” he added.
Obama praises Democrats who have fled from Texas to implement the vote as “inspiring”.
Former President Barack Obama speaks on December 5, 2024 in the Democracy of the Obama Foundation in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File) (AP Photo / Erin Hooley)
In a Wednesday post on X, Obama said that gerrymanening should not be part politicsBut instead only a “fair struggle” between Republicans and Democrats based on the competition of ideas.
Texas and California have enough house seats and changes in both cases could shift control over the congress in 2026. Some analysts say that the Democrats in California could collect up to five additional places in California if the newsoma plan is successful and possibly cancel the Republican profits in Texas.
Newsom’s plan should counter a move of Texas via the redistribution of the congress before the intermediate elections of the next year.
In Austin, the GOP-dominated representative House of representatives resumed in the middle of a second special meeting of the conservative republican last week Governor Greg Abbott.
However, the Republicans in the Texas house were prevented from keeping voices on a new card for two weeks, as dozens of representatives of the democratic state fled the state to refuse the GOP a quorum in the Texas house.
Accompanied by California and Texasal legislators, California Governor Gavin Newsom, the advance will be discussed during a press conference in Sacramento in order to re -plan a special elections to the electoral district of the Californian Congress. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
“Since Texas took in the middle of a decade from a partisan -white house and a gerrymanderering to maintain the house despite its unpopular guidelines, I have enormous respect for how Governor Newsom Word addressed, “wrote Obama about X.
The former commander -in -chief said that Newsom Out Forward said an “intelligent, measured approach”, which “should tackle a very specific problem at a very specific point”.
Newsom has to hold a special election this year in order to receive the approval of the voters in order to reverse the constitutional changes that created the refund commission FOX News Digital previously reported.
Governor Greg Abbott speaks during a legislative template that is signed on April 23 in Austin, Texas in which State Capitol. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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The governor has held a special election this year to reverse the constitutional changes from which the referee redistribution commission was created. California Republicans The legislator has sworn to fight against it.
Paul Steinhauser from Fox News Digital and Jasmine Baehr and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
