(WND News Center)—Democrats desperately are trying to protect their minority numbers in Congress with several redistricting plans in states.

Analysts have concluded they’re unlikely to gain much, but in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom, an ardent opponent of President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again agenda, has gone so far as to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign to have voters authorize a new redistricting plan.

His intention is to take away a handful of seats that now are held by Republicans, even though that might not even make up what his party lost in a redistricting already finished in Texas.

California’s redistricting by law is supposed to be done by a nonpartisan committee, but Newsom’s plan would have voters authorize a bypass so Democrats could gerrymander even further, a process that party already has used for years.

But President Trump is pointing out a potential problem.

And he’s promising more information to come.

“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED. All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!” Trump said.

A report at the Gateway Pundit said the California vote, under way on Tuesday, is “Newsom’s power grab to eliminate five GOP congressional seats.”

Democrats in California, the report said, already have used “ballot harvesting, drop boxes, mail-in ballots without chain of custody and questionable ballot curing” to take 43 congressional seats, previously leaving the GOP only nine.

That’s even though Republican vote totals in the state routinely garner 40% of the vote.

And there already have been charges made that Newsom set up the voting by mail process so that a ballot opposing the redistricting could be identified without even opening the envelope, opening the door for ballot tampering.

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