Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November

Updates to California Lifeline have gotten the attention of the Texas Republican, who alleged it “encourages unlawful entry and misuses taxpayer dollars.”

If Californians vote in favor of the measure on Nov. 4, the number of Republicans in California’s House — nine of 52 total members — would likely be cut in half.

Millions of Americans will soon head to the polls to cast ballots in local and statewide political races, in the first general election of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

Marc Elias, Founder of Democracy Docket and David Graham, Staff Writer for The Atlantic join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the growing support for Prop 50 in California as it seems Republicans in the state have accepted that it is likely to lead to redrawn maps favoring Democrats in the same way that the Trump Administration strong armed states with Republican state legislatures.

California's governor surged to the top of the Democratic pile by trolling Trump, but now comes the hard part of beating the president with voters.

California’s request echoed a similar letter sent by New Jersey Republicans asking the DOJ to dispatch election monitors to “oversee the receipt and processing of vote-by-mail ballots” and “monitor access to the Board of Elections around the clock” in suburban Passaic County ahead of the state’s governor’s race.

Munger, a multi-millionaire good-government philanthropist who backed 2008 and 2010 initiatives that established California’s independent redistricting process, has contributed $32 million this year to defend that system. His committee, Protect Voters First, was created soon after Newsom moved to put Prop 50 on the ballot.