As reported at The Hill, according to a recent Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey California voters overwhelmingly prefer to keep the state’s independent redistricting commission as opposed to Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to gerrymander the current California state map. Newsom is doing this in reaction to Texas redistricting and his grandstanding for a future 2028 Presidential run.
California voters widely prefer keeping the state’s independent redistricting commission, new polling shows, as Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) threatens to bypass it to counter GOP gerrymandering in other states.
A Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found 36 percent of California voters support returning congressional redistricting authority to the state Legislature, compared to 64 percent who back the independent redistricting commission.
To counter would-be Republican gains, Newsom has proposed putting forward a ballot measure that would bypass the independent redistricting commission for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 election cycles, before reverting to the existing system.