How badly do voters in California want to stick it to President Donald Trump? A special election next week is likely to provide an answer, as millions decide whether to temporarily gerrymander the state to help Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives in next year\u2019s midterms, escalating a national fight over redistricting.<\/p>\n
Democrats \u2014 led by California\u2019s governor and likely presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom \u2014 are supremely confident<\/a> that their ballot measure, Proposition 50, will pass<\/a>. Trump and Republicans, meanwhile, seem increasingly resigned to defeat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How badly do voters in California want to stick it to President Donald Trump? A special election next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,5402,9,8,10554,11272,4515,721,3155,12417,575,24125,18120],"class_list":["post-33388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-democratic-party","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-justice-department","tag-law","tag-new-jersey","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}