Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: Newsom’s Redistricting Ploy Makes a ‘Jigsaw Puzzle Look Proportional’

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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California’s Prop 50 could completely erase Republican representation in elections. The measure would hand Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration the power to redraw California’s congressional districts. Supporters say the measure simply mirrors what Texas has done to strengthen Republican representation, but Hanson argues this is a blatantly partisan effort to cement Democrat control and eliminate what […]

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0:50.9	in California, Prop 50. It involves redistricting congressional districts that would
0:56.9	empower Gavin Newsom's administration to draw up new congressional districts. And the gist of it is
1:04.2	that the Democrats say it's in reaction to what Texas has done. Texas is going to pick up more Republican seats than it had before.
1:13.6	And Gavin Newsom, who was running for president in 2008, has thrust himself into the controversy.
1:19.7	And so what am I saying? We're going way beyond nonpartisanhip that wasn't nonpartisan.
1:24.7	We're going into extremism with just five, four, five Republican
1:29.8	Congress representatives out of 52 seats. It makes jigsaw puzzles look proportional.
1:36.3	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.
1:50.8	It's a very controversial ballot measure here in California, Prop 50.
1:56.7	It involves redistricting congressional districts in a special ballot mandate that would empower
2:06.6	Gavin Newsom's administration to draw up new congressional districts.
2:12.6	And the gist of it is that the Democrats feel that in the next midterms, they want to get at least five or six more congressional Democratic seats.
2:27.4	They say it's in reaction to what Texas has done.
2:31.8	Texas has redistricted, and it is going to pick up more Republican
2:38.2	seats than it had before. And Gavin Newsom, who was running for president in
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