Gavin Newsom

And I was trying everything.

It wasn't working.

It wasn't breaking through.

Democratic Party writ large wasn't breaking through.

And we decided the only way to address Trump is quite literally to fight fire with fire.

I did an initiative, Prop 50, in California.

It was to reflect the fact that Donald Trump called an American politician and said in the middle of the decade to the governor of the state of Texas, I am entitled.

Greg Abbott, to five seats.

And I need you to redraw district lines, mid-year redistricting, to rig the 2026 election before one vote is cast.

What the Trump administration expected we were going to do, as good Democrats do, we might write an op-ed.

And we may all go out and just say, this is just so wrong.

And all of us would be applauding and say, yes, yes, as he's consolidating power.

Instead, we went out and we redraw our maps.

And we also drew a line in the sand.

And I think that's what's required at this moment.

And he cesses out weakness like no one else.

That's his great strength.

That's his gift.

But you punch back.

You fight fire with fire.