Republicans brace for redistricting 'catastrophe' in California

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

09/07/2025 10:00 AM EDT


GARDEN GROVE, California — Republicans wield almost no power in California. But as a moribund state party gathered here over the weekend, it confronted an even grimmer reality now suddenly settling in: If the state gerrymanders its congressional map, they’ll practically be an endangered species. “It’s a guillotine,” said Dale Quasny, a party delegate and real-estate broker from suburban Los Angeles County. “We won’t be able to pick up the pieces and move forward. I mean, we were making a little headway, but this would be a catastrophe.”

Long locked out of power in Sacramento, one thing that Republicans here and nationally have counted on for years from California was influence in U.S. House races — and the ability to help deliver Republican majorities by winning battleground races in the state’s Central Valley and Orange County.

Now they’re on the brink of losing even that — a consequence of the redistricting wars that could cost the GOP as many as five House seats in California.

It is in part the Republican president, Donald Trump, who got them here. The GOP base in the state is as ardently MAGA as anywhere. But it was Trump’s push for a Republican gerrymandering in deep-red Texas that sparked a national battle over redistricting, provoking Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic leaders to respond with a Nov. 4 ballot measure to gerrymander California’s lines.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/07/california-republicans-brace-for-redistricting-wars-00548906

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[NCDem47]

1. Cry harder California Republicans

Thank your party in Texas.

God I hope this passes.

[the nelm]

12. "You reap what you so" seems quite apt here. n/t

[SSJVegeta]

2. Maybe they shouldve pushed harder tos top the Texas bill

...too little too late. Good riddance.

[Hekate]

3. My heart just bleeds for them

[OldBaldy1701E]

21. Oh, mine as well.

Those poor idiots. One has to feel for people as completely brainwashed and cruel as these rethugs.

Not!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. They jolly well should brace themselves! They got themselves into this mess. FAFO. n/t

[sheshe2]

5. Boo Hooo 😢

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
You Made Your Bed, Now Lie In It.
You reap what you sow.


FAFO!

[Seinan Sensei]

14. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

[Mawspam2]

6. They can cry all they want. This is the ultimate outcome...

...of Pete Wilson's anti-immigrant Prop 187 from 1994.

What Trump is doing now will result in a permanent Trumpublican rump status a decade from now. Eat shit Karl Rove!

[Alpeduez21]

7. Fuck you repukes

You did in North Carolina. You did it in Texas. Getting ready to do it in Mississippi. Go right to fucking hell you pieces of shit

[maxsolomon]

24. dont' forget Ohio.

the district boundaries are absurd.

https://act.represent.us/sign/ohios-worst-gerrymandered-districts-and-why-they-look

[MLAA]

8. FAFO!

[Skittles]

9. take it up with your fellow Trump humpers in Texas

and go fuck yourselves while you're at it

[Cha]

10. You Own This, GOP.. Guardians of Pedophiles.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. This will be fun to watch

[Fil1957]

13. Go cry on Greg Abbot's shoulder. You'll get no sympathy here...

[orangecrush]

15. Adios fuckers

[BigmanPigman]

16. MAGA asshole Munger is spending big $$$$ on ads on YouTube

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20617746

"Charles Munger Junior Is Crypto MAGA"

[Zorro]

17. Here's hoping we'll see the last of Darrell Issa this next election

He's a carpetbagger who moved into the district when it became apparent he would lose the election in his home district.

Before him it was Duncan Hunter, Junior -- convicted criminal.

And before him it was Duncan Hunter, Senior -- he was MAGA before MAGA was around.

[not fooled]

20. I used to live in that district

Still remember that when Duncan Hunter fils ran for the first time, to fill the seat formerly held by his retired father, the ads continued to state simply "Duncan Hunter." I'm sure they effectively fooled a lot of the rubes living back in the hollers of East SanDiegotucky county, who didn't realize that they were now voting for the son.



My already low opinion of a lot of the voters there was confirmed when they elected Issa, to fill the seat that became available after D. Hunter fils got sent to the hoosegow for stealing campaign funds. Here's a recap of some of the gamier allegations against him plus bonus support for Trump idiocy, from Hunter's Wikipedia page:

On June 24, 2019, federal prosecutors submitted a court filing alleging that Hunter used his campaign funds for extramarital affairs with five women, including three lobbyists, a congressional aide, and one of his staffers [166] between 2009 and 2016.[5][167] Ahead of a court hearing in November 2019, Hunter expressed support for President Donald Trump's downward sentence modification for convicted war criminal Eddie Gallagher, but refused to answer reporters' questions about his case.

[travelingthrulife]

23. I live there now. You are right. They didn't know it was the son, although

he was military so he would have been given a pass anyway. I landed back under Issa after the last census. I wish the DNC would take Issa out. An old criminal who only talks to rich people.

[Karasu]

18. Fuck them and fuck their fascist party. Got a problem? Take it up with Trump and Abbott, you fucks.

[cstanleytech]

19. Completely avoidable if Texas Republicans had decided to not obey Trump's order to gerrymander their State.

[travelingthrulife]

22. Good. Maybe the rest of them will move out.

My neighbor, who moved to Arizona, said he would kill himself if Newsom were elected. I was hoping, but he moved instead.