{"id":49352,"date":"2025-11-02T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49352"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T03:54:00","slug":"newsom-accuses-trump-of-rigging-2026-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49352","title":{"rendered":"Newsom accuses Trump of ‘rigging’ 2026 midterm elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nov. 2 (UPI) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> on Sunday renewed his call for support of a ballot initiative that would redraw congressional voting maps in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposition 50 would change district boundaries to potentially favor Democrats, a reaction, Newsom has said, to a similar move by Texas Republicans that would benefit the GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview on\u2002NBC’s Meet The Press<\/a>, Newsom said “the rules of the game have changed,” criticizing President Donald Trump<\/a> for pushing the Texas initiative and accused him of “rigging” the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom said he is “deeply confident” that California voters will approve Proposition 50 at the polls in a Nov. special election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats have moved away from a pledge by former first lady Michelle Obama<\/a>, who said in 2016 that “when they go low, we go high,” in response to aggressive campaign rhetoric by then presidential candidate Donald Trump that leveled personal attacks against Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I would love to go back to that,” Newsom said in the interview. “But politics has changed. The world has changed. The rules of the game have changed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We want to go back to some semblance of normalcy, but you have to deal with the crisis at hand,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom, who has said he is considering a bid for the White House in 2028, has also been critical of Trump’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration in big cities across the country, including in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has\u2002claimed illegal immigration<\/a> is responsible for rampant crime in those cities, despite a\u2002lack of evidence<\/a> to back up his assertions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom signed on to an Oregon lawsuit to stop National Guard troops from patrolling Portland and has described the deployments as a “breathtaking abuse of power.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has also predicted the outcome of the Proposition 50 vote could shape the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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