'They Know What Donald Trump Knows. He's Going To Lose': Newsom Trashes GOP Midterm Prospects

During a rally on Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) predicted that the GOP would lose congress in the 2026 midterms.

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00:00So we're here in that light and I'm grateful to have remarkable partners in

00:04the legislature. It's a tall task. We're asking them for two-thirds of a

00:08legislative consent, but this is the difference. This is the difference

00:11between what's happening in Texas and what's happening here in California. We

00:16didn't receive a phone call from the President of the United States to then

00:20quietly go in the back room and start drawing maps and legislatively try to

00:24jam them through against the consent of the people. We're doing precisely the

00:29opposite. We're working through a very transparent, temporary, and public

00:36process. We're putting the maps on the ballot and we're giving the power to the

00:42people. This will be the first redistricting that's ever done that. That's the

00:46difference. We tried to raise the standards and these guys are not playing by any set

00:56of rules. So this time requires us to act anew, not just think anew. And so I'm

01:04grateful to all of the remarkable leaders that have stepped up this unifying effort

01:08here in the state of California. And we'll be asking for the people on November

01:124th, a special election coinciding with a lot of local municipal elections, to

01:18provide a temporary pathway for congressional maps. We will affirm our commitment to the

01:25state independent redistricting after the 2030 census. But we're asking the voters for

01:30their consent to do midterm redistricting in 2026, 2028, and 2030 for the congressional maps,

01:39to respond to what's happening in Texas, to respond what Trump is trying to excite. And

01:46we'll do so in a way that also affirms our desire as a state to level the playing field all across

01:52the United States. We believe in a national independent redistricting framework. And we

01:58believe that's the right goal and the right thing to pursue. And I will just state for the fact,

02:03Zoe Lofgren, who runs our California delegation, she authored the bill. Democrats, Democrats unanimously

02:11supported that national independent redistricting commission. Republicans were nowhere to be found.

02:18They want to rig these elections, and they want the power that gerrymandering provides, because they

02:24know what Donald Trump knows. He's going to lose the midterms. He knows de facto his presidency ends in 17 months,

02:34when Speaker Jeffries is back in office. He knows it. Why else, why else would you try to rig the system?

02:43Why else would you make the phone call?