The Nov. 4 special election is on Tuesday. California voters are deciding on Proposition 50, which would allow the state to redraw congressional maps ahead of next year\u2019s midterm election.<\/p>\n
Both supporters and opponents are making their final push for the measure, including Governor Gavin Newsom, who discussed prop 50 during a wide ranging interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker.<\/p>\n
In San Jose, elected leaders and labor leaders spoke at a rally Sunday to remind voters to get their ballots in.<\/p>\n
For most Californians, Prop 50 is the only thing they’ll see on the ballot.<\/p>\n
The measure would allow the state to redraw a number of congressional districts, in an effort to allow Democrats to pick up seats. Supporters say the goal is to counterbalance a similar Republican action in Texas.<\/p>\n
\u201cProp 50 gives us a chance to level the playing field to make sure that the votes in California are the same as votes in every other state in the union,\u201d said Senator Adam Schiff.<\/p>\n
In a wide-ranging interview with Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker, she asked Newsom if he thinks Prop 50 will pass Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m deeply confident, as long as we do everything that we set out to do in the next few days we don\u2019t believe in running the 90-yard dash we peak 110-yard dash. But the people I have spoken so far in historic ways it\u2019s a special election we\u2019ve seen unprecedented number of ballots already sent in,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n
Newsom has championed the ballot measure, but opponents of Prop 50 say even though Texas is redrawing congressional districts doesn’t mean California should follow suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a solid no this is bad governance for California the voters chose to have an independent redistricting commission and just because the Democrats have a super majority, they bum rushing this through,\u201d said John Dennis with the Board of Directors CA Republican Party.<\/p>\n
The polls open at 7 a.m. Tuesday and will be open until 8 p.m. Voters can also drop off their vote by mail ballot at a polling place or ballot drop box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nov. 4 special election is on Tuesday. California voters are deciding on Proposition 50, which would allow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-35302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-politics","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35302","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=35302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}