Gavin Newsom’s Redistricting Gambit Could Fail

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is threatening to match Texas’s partisan redistricting move with one of his own.

If Texas Republicans push ahead with a mid-cycle redraw that could net them up to five additional House seats, Newsom is promising Democrats will respond in kind — by redrawing California’s lines to claw back five seats for the left.