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What to know about Prop 50, California’s redistricting ballot measure - Roll Call

Californians will decide the fate of their new congressional lines through a ballot measure known as Proposition 50.

Roll Call · Oct 29, 2025

Newsom 2024: could the California governor be a rival to Joe Biden?

Amid concern over the president’s poll ratings, Gavin Newsom appears to be running something of a shadow campaign

The Guardian - US · Nov 12, 2023

Vow of silence: why Biden is saying nothing about Trump’s indictment

Trump made history by becoming the first former US president to be criminally charged but his successor has studiously avoided the subject

The Guardian - US · Apr 8, 2023

Newsom, Bonta way ahead as California voters lean partisan, Times poll finds

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Voters will likely stick with their partisan preferences in two of California’s most consequential state primary races, giving Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta an easy leg up in the June 7 election, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 3, 2022

Does $6 gas make Californians want pricey High Speed Rail?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Backers of California’s beleaguered High Speed Rail project haven’t had much to cheer about with costs soaring and service scaled back, but a poll out Thursday shows a solid majority of voters still want to press ahead and finish the job.

Tribune News Service · Apr 15, 2022