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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dismissed current Gov. Gavin Newsom’s argument that the proposed redistricting in the state was temporary, calling the notion “total fantasy.”
“I think when he — when they say this is temporary, there is no such thing. I mean, the longest programs are government programs that are temporary. Okay, just remember that if this is a tax program or if it is the redistricting program, anything that is temporary with government is permanent,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” responding to a clip of Newsom touting his Proposition 50 legislation that would reshape congressional seats.
Newsom issued a response to those who oppose Proposition 50 and said, “Spare me the moral high ground.”
Schwarzenegger called the redistricting efforts cheating, and said Democrats needed to outperform Trump.
“What the Democrats should do is they should outperform Trump. To me, it‘s all about competition creates performance. And so what they do is with the redistricting commission is that they‘re going to go and try to draw the district lines in such a way that they get voted in, no matter if they work well or not for the American people. So the American people get cheated on this whole thing. That is really the problem here,” he said.
The former Republican California governor said that he understood Republicans and Democrats needed to “fight” about it, but argued that Americans were being cheated.
“I think that if you want to really fight for democracy, why would you go in, destroy the Constitution in California, tear it up and redo it, do the whole thing? So to me, it just doesn‘t make any sense at all,” he added.
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