California Gov. Gavin Newsom is coming to Houston on Saturday for a rally, just days after the Democrat pulled off a key election night victory to counter Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans’ redistricting efforts.
The event is scheduled for noon on Saturday, but the location has not been released, according to an invitation to the event obtained by Hearst Newspapers.
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In confirming the event, Newsom’s campaign team said it is meant to “celebrate Texas legislators who have resisted Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2026 election.”
After Texas redrew its congressional map at Abbott’s behest to give Republicans five more winnable U.S. House seats, Newsom responded with a ballot initiative in California asking voters’ permission to draw a new map too that would give the state’s Democrats five more favorable congressional districts.
Though Newsom faced long odds when he first started the effort to blunt the GOP gains in Texas, he prevailed Tuesday night and used his victory speech to call out Abbott and President Donald Trump by name as the reasons California had to act.
“Tonight, after poking the bear, the bear roared,” Newsom said.
In that speech, he said his mission is now to get other Democrat-led states to similarly redraw their congressional maps to improve the chances of Democrats taking control of the U.S. House in 2026 to stymie Trump’s agenda.
This article originally published at Gavin Newsom holding a rally in Houston days after his redistricting win in California.