{"id":2476973,"date":"2025-08-20T21:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-praises-newsoms-responsible-approach-to-california-redistricting-after-texas-efforts\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:54:51","slug":"obama-praises-newsoms-responsible-approach-to-california-redistricting-after-texas-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-praises-newsoms-responsible-approach-to-california-redistricting-after-texas-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama praises Newsom&#8217;s &#8216;responsible approach&#8217; to California redistricting after Texas efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-praises-newsoms-responsible-approach-to-california-redistricting-after-texas-efforts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2476973&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that former President Barack Obama has praised California governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s &#8220;responsible approach&#8221; to redistricting in response to Texas Republicans&#8217; efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nh-dem-blasts-pelosi-voting-reform-bill\/\" title=\"NH Dem Blasts Pelosi Voting Reform Bill\">redraw congressional districts<\/a> to benefit their party. Texas, backed by former President Donald Trump, aims to increase Republican seats in the U.S.House by five through partisan gerrymandering. In contrast,Newsom plans to put a redistricting measure before california voters to counter these moves,bypassing the state&#8217;s usual independent redistricting commission. Obama supports this effort, highlighting the need to combat partisan gerrymandering and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >ensure fair political competition<\/a>.He criticizes Republican tactics to manipulate district maps to undermine Democrats and urges for a future with genuine electoral contests based on ideas rather than manipulated boundaries. Obama&#8217;s public endorsement marks a more active involvement than is typical for former presidents and aligns with his previous warnings about threats to democracy posed by such partisan strategies. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Obama praises Newsom&rsquo;s &lsquo;responsible approach&rsquo; to California redistricting after Texas efforts<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2202990\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Barack Obama <\/a>on Wednesday praised California&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-who-claims-to-oppose-gerrymandering-funnels-300000-to-democratic-gerrymandering-group\/\" title=\"Pelosi, Who Claims to Oppose ..., Funnels 0,000 to Democratic ... Group\">redistricting efforts<\/a>, arguing that the state&rsquo;s move is necessary to combat &ldquo;partisan&rdquo; gerrymandering in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Texas <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3763487\/texas-house-gop-maps-redistricting-fight-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">launched an effort<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">earlier this year<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3763487\/texas-house-gop-maps-redistricting-fight-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>backed by President Donald Trump to redraw district lines to boost the number of seats Republicans hold in the House by five.<\/span> Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3498418\/newsom-advances-california-redistricting-bid-with-jab-at-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swiftly led<\/a> Democratic-led states in announcing retaliatory efforts designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3761124\/plan-launched-to-place-redistricting-amendment-before-voters-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">similarly boost<\/a> the party&rsquo;s power in Congress, leading national leaders such as Obama to endorse the effort.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3763190\/cornyn-paxton-senate-poll-texas-senate-primary-battle\/\">Cornyn nearly halves Paxton&#8217;s lead in competitive Senate primary battle: Poll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3761863\/byron-york-california-redistricting-fight\/\">Byron York notes California values &lsquo;on the shelf&rsquo; during redistricting fight<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3761753\/mike-rogers-michigan-democrats-out-left-each-other-israel-stance-senate-race\/\">Mike Rogers claims Michigan Democrats &#8216;trying to out-left each other&#8217; on Israel stance in Senate race<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Over the long term, we shouldn&rsquo;t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who&rsquo;s got better ideas,&rdquo; Obama said this week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But since Texas is taking direction from a partisan White House and gerrymandering in the middle of a decade to try and maintain the House despite their unpopular policies, I have tremendous respect for how Governor Newsom has approached this,&rdquo; the former president continued in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1958280898413031773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> to X. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s put forward a smart, measured approach in California, designed to address a very particular problem at a very particular moment in time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Newsom&rsquo;s &ldquo;smart, measured&rdquo; approach, as characterized by Obama, constitutes an effort to put redistricting efforts before voters on the state&rsquo;s ballot in a special November election, a move that would bypass an independent California commission that typically oversees redistricting efforts. <\/p>\n<p>Obama&rsquo;s statement of support for the effort on Wednesday marks a departure from the typically hands-off approach to politics espoused by his predecessors in the Oval Office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And it follows<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3501040\/barack-obama-redistricting-texas-gerrymandering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> previous pledges from Obama <\/a>to back Democratic redistricting efforts due to his warnings that such actions are warranted to prevent Republicans&rsquo; &ldquo;systematic assault on democracy.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The problem that we&rsquo;ve been seeing, not just recently, but this goes back a while, is that the Republicans increasingly recognize their ideas won&rsquo;t sell, so we&rsquo;ve got to fix the game a little bit, and by drawing maps that splinter Democratic voting blocs, by packing in Democrats into one district so that they don&rsquo;t have influence in other districts,&rdquo; Obama said during a recent video call with Texas House Democrats and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.&nbsp;&ldquo;My hope is that rather than have a race to the bottom where every district is predetermined based on how it&rsquo;s drawn, that over time, the American people, ideally with the help of the courts, realize that there&rsquo;s a better way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over the long term, we shouldn&rsquo;t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who&rsquo;s got better ideas. But since Texas is taking direction from a partisan White House and gerrymandering in the middle of a decade to try and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6YeqWg6Zv3\">https:\/\/t.co\/6YeqWg6Zv3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\/status\/1958280898413031773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>During remarks at a Tuesday fundraiser in Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard, Massachusetts, that raised $2 million for the NDRC and its affiliates, Obama continued his attack on Republicans for eyeing redistricting efforts favoring the GOP in Texas and elsewhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe that Gov. Newsom&rsquo;s approach is a responsible approach. He said this is going to be responsible. We&rsquo;re not going to try to completely maximize it,&rdquo; he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/obama-newsom-redistricting-texas-democrats-house-midterms-26ef7d0ccb44e57a5ddc36ff99f7de9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Associated Press<\/em>. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re only going to do it if and when Texas and\/or other Republican states begin to pull these maneuvers. Otherwise, this doesn&rsquo;t go into effect.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3488481\/gavin-newsom-november-special-elections-approve-congressional-maps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NEWSOM TO CALL NOVEMBER SPECIAL ELECTIONS TO APPROVE NEW CONGRESSIONAL MAPS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama&rsquo;s active involvement in the redistricting effort this month comes as Texas Republicans continue to advance measures to boost House margins in their favor. <\/p>\n<p>The Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-cooper-gop-absolutely-targeting-race-with-redistricting-their-number-one-goal\/\" title=\"Dem Rep. Cooper: GOP &#039;Absolutely&#039; Targeting Race with ... -- &#039;Their Number One Goal&#039;\">redrawn congressional map<\/a> that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama commends Newsom&#8217;s &#8216;responsible&#8217; redistricting amid Texas efforts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2476974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP10052502770.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[61196,3678,5315,61654,59764],"class_list":["post-2476973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-california-redistricting","tag-newsom","tag-obama","tag-political-praise","tag-texas-redistricting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP10052502770.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476977,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476973\/revisions\/2476977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}