Maxwell Frost
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Exactly.
And I think people really understand just how important this is.
And what I told everyone at the Canvas launch that we did with Mayor Bass the other day, and I'll say to you guys, is this isn't just about California, right?
This is a response to what Donald Trump has said that he wanted to do in Texas and in other states.
And he knows that when they pass the big, ugly bill, which rips away health care from 17 million people,
You usually don't win elections when you do something like that, when you stage the greatest transfer of wealth from the working class and working people to the billionaires and mega corporations.
And so instead of undoing that, he knows that in order to win, he needs to cheat.
And that's why he told Texas, redraw your maps and give me four to five new seats.
That's why he is pressuring states across the country to give him more seats.
And what California is doing is responding to that through Proposition 50.
And, you know, the energy
was so high in this room, Ben.
I saw people, it was a multi-generational, multi-racial coalition.
But the thing that really got me too is there were people there who were actually in Los Angeles on vacation, but they know it's so important that they decided to show up.
And guess where they're from?
They're from the state of Texas, where they're seeing this happen, but not in a democratic way, where they're seeing politicians just doing it because Donald Trump told them to do it.
Exactly.
And the thing is that this redistricting thing that Trump is trying to do, which is to try to essentially rig the election and cheat with the election, it's not popular.
It's not popular with Republicans.
It's not popular with Democrats.