By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Related Press Political Author
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama is getting into the struggle for U.S. Home management by showing in a 30-second advert urging California voters to approve a November poll proposal that might add as many as 5 Democrat-held Home seats in California.
Proposition 50 would dramatically reshape California’s congressional districts with the intent of including Democratic seats in Congress. It’s crafted to achieve Democratic Home management, geared toward offsetting President Donald Trump’s strikes in Texas and elsewhere to assist win extra Republican seats within the 2026 midterm election.
A pattern poll is pictured earlier than early voting begins in California’s statewide particular election, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photograph/Paula Ulichney-Munoz)
“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years,” Obama says within the advert, trying immediately into the digicam. “You can stop Republicans in their tracks.”
Republicans and different opponents say the proposal quantities to a Democratic energy seize that may put aside district traces crafted by an unbiased fee that was created by voters greater than a decade in the past.
The duel between California and Texas, the nation’s two most populous states, has unfold nationally. North Carolina Republican legislative leaders introduced plans Monday to vote subsequent week on redrawing the state’s Home district map, taking on Trump’s name to safe extra GOP seats nationwide and resist rival strikes by Democrats.
Republicans maintain a 219-213 majority within the U.S. Home, with three vacancies.
If authorized in California, it’s potential the brand new political map might slash 5 Republican-held Home seats whereas bolstering Democratic incumbents in different battleground districts. That might enhance the Democratic margin to 48 of California’s 52 congressional seats, up from the 43 seats the social gathering now holds.
Initially Revealed: October 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM EDT
