AOC makes appeal for Democrats' California gerrymander

Source: Politico

09/23/2025 10:00 AM EDT


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is bringing bicoastal fire power to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting push.

The New York Democrat is the latest party figure to put her seal of approval on the Nov. 4 ballot measure to redraw California’s congressional lines, further nationalizing a campaign that Newsom hopes to make a referendum on President Donald Trump.

The representative commonly known as AOC is featured in a direct-to-camera video, accusing Trump of initiating a mid-decade redistricting push “to force through a Congress that responds only to him.” “If he gets away with it, all bets are off — for our health care, our paychecks and our freedoms,” she says in the video. “With Prop 50, we can stop him.”

Ocasio-Cortez also appears in a Spanish-language spot touting a similar message. The campaign plans to run the ads on broadcast television as well as digitally.

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