California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is running for the nomination for the Democratic Party in 2028, has a redistricting plan. He is all hot and bothered about the fact that the Texas state Legislature is going to redistrict, which they are allowed to do by all available and applicable law in the state.

They’re not supposed to do this in California, however. The state constitution states they can redistrict every ten years along with the census, and also that there is an independent commission that is supposed to administer the redistricting.

But now, Gavin Newsom has decided it’s his “moment.”

Of course, he believes that it’s always his moment.

That’s the thing about Gavin Newsom. He has never not had a moment just in the last few months.

We had the Gavin Newsom moment over the fires — where he somehow blamed President Trump for the giant fires taking place in his state.

There was the Gavin Newsom moment over illegal immigration, where he claimed that President Trump was trying to fascistically take over the state of California.

This is the third Gavin Newsom “moment” in the past six months. He is now claiming that he is going to redistrict the state of California in order to fight back against those evil Texas state legislators who are attempting to redistrict and put the state more in line with its actual political proclivities.

The Wall Street Journal reported: 

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out a plan Thursday to redraw the state’s congressional maps to put Democrats in position to flip five seats in the 2026 midterm elections. He called for a Nov. 4 special election to put the maps before California voters.

“We’ll be asking for the people, on November 4th, a special election, coinciding with a lot of local municipal elections, to provide a temporary pathway for congressional maps,” he stated.

“We will affirm our commitment to the state independent redistricting after the 2030 census, but we’re asking the voters for their consent to do mid-term redistricting in 2026, 2028 and 2030 for the congressional maps to respond to what’s happening in Texas, to respond to what Trump is trying to excite.”

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You might be saying to yourself, “Wait, hold up. I thought that California was one of the states that has an independent redistricting commission in an attempt to prevent things such as what Gavin Newsom is doing right now.” They do. That’s true.

California does not have very many Republican seats in the first place. In fact, the state of California is split about 60-40 Democrats over Republican, but Democrats hold an extraordinary number of seats in the state of California.

Yet he wants to redistrict anyway. Why?

As a response to President Trump, Newsom suggested, “We have to fight fire with fire,” which is a bad metaphor for him to be using, considering his state is legitimately and literally on fire every couple of months, thanks to his forestation policies.

California currently has 52 congressional seats and 43 of them are held by Democrats. That’s a lot more than the percentage of the population of California that is actually Democrat. They’re going to fight “fire with fire” by doing more of what California has been doing all along.

Just to demonstrate, by the way, what a sham the Independent Redistricting Commission is in the state of California — because California is indeed highly gerrymandered — the independent redistricting commissioner, Sara Sadhwani, said the state should simply redraw the maps without any independent redistricting authority, which shows how independent she was in the first place.

Not that she’s a Democratic tool or something like that.

But there is a problem for the Democrats in California, and that is that the Californian voters are not particularly interested in doing any of this.

According to a new poll, by a 2 to 1 margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state’s House seats. Only 36% of respondents favor turning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.

So this is a problem for Gavin Newsom — if he cared.

He doesn’t. If he wants to take the California Democrats from 43 of 52 possible seats to 48 of 52 possible seats, and the California Constitution prevents him from doing it and the voters stop him, he can still say he tried his best. And that is the most important thing to him, because Gavin Newsom is interested in one thing and one thing only: running for president in 2028.

That’s why he continues to promote the lie that President Trump is going to run for an unconstitutional third term in 2028.

“I said in a moment, ‘Wake up, America, wake up. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will have a president who will be running for a third term. Mark my word. I wasn’t exaggerating when I said that I received in the mail a Trump 2028 hat from one of his biggest supporters. These guys are not screwing around. The rules do not apply to them. The most corrupt president in history.”

I think we need to send Gavin Newsom a Trump 2036 hat because obviously somebody sent him, as a joke, a Trump 2028 hat and he took it seriously.

Let’s go further than that. Let’s send him a Trump 2040 hat.

We need to make one and send it to Newsom because the dude cannot take a joke.

Maybe that’s because he is a joke.