Gavin Newsom strikes back against Trump’s Texas redistricting plan with his own move to claw back congressional seats

Gavin Newsom celebrated taking a giant step forward retaliation toward the Donald Trump-endorsed redistricting of Texas but going all out on his recent social media impression of the president.

In the past week, Newsom’s press office has consistently put out tweets aping the bombastic and singular style of Trump in an attempt to show some fight back from an increasingly unpopular Democrat Party.

A day after the Texas State House approved a redistricting plan Trump thinks will eventually lead to Republicans gaining 100 seats in Congress, Newsom signed a law allowing California voters to decide whether the blue state will do the same.

The governor celebrated by trotting out his new social media impression yet again.

‘WOW!!! MY MAPS (THE BEST MAPS EVER MADE) WILL SOON PASS IN THE GREATEST LEGISLATURE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (NOT JUST AMERICA),’ he wrote.

He joked that the maps are ‘BETTER THAN COLUMBUS, BETTER THAN GOOGLE MAPS, BETTER THAN APPLE MAPS (SORRY TIM, NO GOLD BAR FOR ME, BUT I STILL LOVE YOU!).’

‘PEOPLE ARE ALREADY SCREAMING ‘MAMA! MAMA!’ AND I SAY, ‘NO, I AM YOUR DADDY!!!’ THE GOLDEN ERA BEGINS IN THE GOLDEN STATE, ALL BECAUSE OF ME, THE PEOPLE’S GOVERNOR, THE CARTOGRAPHER-IN-CHIEF, WHO WILL NOW LET THE PEOPLE VOTE!!! THANK YOU, USA!!! — GCN’

California lawmakers voted mostly along party lines Thursday to approve legislation calling for the special election.

Gavin Newsom celebrated taking a giant step forward retaliation toward the Donald Trump-endorsed redistricting of Texas but going all out on his recent social media impression of the president

In the past week, Newsom’s press office has consistently put out tweets aping the bombastic and singular style of Trump in an attempt to show some fight back from an increasingly unpopular Democrat Party

Newsom, who has led the campaign in favor of the map, then quickly signed it — the latest step in a tit-for-tat gerrymandering battle.

‘This is not something six weeks ago that I ever imagined that I’d be doing,’ Newsom said at a press conference, pledging a campaign for the measure that would reach out to Democrats, Republicans and independent voters.

‘This is a reaction to an assault on our democracy in Texas.’

Republicans, who have filed a lawsuit and called for a federal investigation into the plan, promised to fight the measure at the ballot box as well.

California Assemblyman James Gallagher, the Republican minority leader, said Trump was ‘wrong’ to push for new Republican seats elsewhere, contending the president was just responding to Democratic gerrymandering in other states.

But he warned that Newsom’s approach, which the governor has dubbed ‘fight fire with fire,’ was dangerous.

‘You move forward fighting fire with fire and what happens?’ Gallagher asked. ‘You burn it all down.’

Trump celebrated victory in Texas in the early morning hours on Thursday as the GOP passed a new redistricting law that Trump says could put the party on a path to gaining 100 seats in Congress.

A day after the Texas State House approved a redistricting plan Trump thinks will eventually lead to Republicans gaining 100 seats in Congress , Newsom signed a law allowing California voters to decide whether the blue state will do the same. The governor celebrated by trotting out his new social media impression yet again

The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn maps that would give the GOP a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through what critics called a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats and a widening national battle over redistricting.

Trump not only celebrated the bill’s passing on Truth Social, but spelled out his game plan for further Republican victories nationwide.

‘Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself. Texas never lets us down,’ he wrote.

He then listed which states may go this route next: ‘Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing. More seats equals less Crime, a great Economy, and a STRONG SECOND AMENDMENT. It means Happiness and Peace.’

Trump said the next move is to, as he put it, ‘STOP MAIL-IN VOTING, a total fraud that has no bounds’ as well as instituting paper ballots.

‘If we do these TWO things, we will pick up 100 more seats, and the CROOKED game of politics is over. God Bless America!!!’

The maps, which would give Republicans five more winnable seats, are expected to to be approved by the GOP-controlled state Senate and signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Abbott celebrated the passing of the bill by giving it a familiar nickname to many Trump fans.

The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn maps that would give the GOP a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through what critics called a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of protests by Democrats and a widening national battle over redistricting

‘Congrats to the Texas House on passing the One Big Beautiful Map,’ he wrote. ‘It will make Texas, and Congress, a brighter shade of Red.’

But the Texas House vote had presented the best chance for Democrats to derail the redraw.

Democrats tried to resist by fleeing the state. In early August, 57 lawmakers skipped town, flying to Illinois and New York in a dramatic attempt to block the GOP’s map vote.

They then said that they were being treated like fugitives as they are threatened with arrest if they don’t show up to the house to vote during a bitter redistricting fight that could hand Republicans and Donald Trump five extra seats in Congress.

State troopers were ordered to shadow Democrats around the clock, even when they dropped their kids at school, to ensure they stayed for votes.

Their forced presence gave the Texas House a quorum, the minimum number of lawmakers required to move legislation forward.