Caucuses were briefed. Polls are being shared. And the push to swing California bluer is taking shape.
California’s Texas-thwarting gerrymander has swiftly transformed from fantasy to reality.
Democrats in the House and the state Legislature are coalescing around a plan to draw a half-dozen Republican incumbents into oblivion — and persuade California voters to approve the new congressional maps before next year’s midterms. Party leaders are closely tracking the dual-track developments in which lawmakers in Texas and California are moving, in partisan parallel, to shore up their respective party’s House majorities. California Republicans are casting about for a way to avoid extinction.
It all points to a high-stakes, big-dollar brawl thrusting California to the center of the political universe.
You’re playing chess. But every time you glance away, your opponent steals one of your pieces off the board. Your options are:
That’s the situation we’re in at this point.
Or:
You’re playing poker with someone, but every time you get a hand that’s good, they point a gun at you.
So you’re not playing poker. You’re just being robbed.