Gavin Newsom Invokes Abraham Lincoln As He Teases Counter Plan To Trump's Texas Redistricting Push

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During a press gaggle on Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) quoted President Abraham Lincoln when talking about his plans to counter a plan by President Trump to redistrict Texas's congressional maps.

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00:00I'm happy to answer any questions.

00:06We have no need to move forward.

00:15There's two paths, we're kicking it, it's the right question.

00:18There's two paths.

00:19There's the cleanest path to be candid as it relates to asking the voters that

00:24enacted this in the first place to consider the new conditions.

00:29I'm reminded of, I think it was the 1865 speech of Lincoln, who said the case is

00:35new, so we must think anew, but most importantly, we must act anew, to act the

00:43voters of the state of California to reconsider on the basis of the case being

00:47anew here in California.

00:50But the legislature is kicking the tires and we're working with the legislature on

00:55that alternative path as well.

00:56So we're just we're we're in the process of a deliberative process, very

01:02intentional process of looking at different pathways and looking at

01:06different possibilities.

01:07But it is predicated on Texas moving forward.

01:10So our message is that we're going to let Californians figure out California, we're going to

01:32use every tool at our disposal in the state of Texas to confront this very illegal

01:38redistricting process that is going to be done on the backs of historic African

01:42American and Latino districts.

01:45So we were coming to share the state of play in the state of Texas, but we have no

01:51influence, nor do we want to even suggest how California should perceive.

01:55We leave that in the capable hands of Governor Newsom.

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