More than six in 10 Californian voters plan to support an upcoming redistricting plan, according to a new poll.
In the CBS News/YouGov poll released Wednesday, 62 percent of respondents said they would vote “yes” on Proposition 50 if the election happened on the day they responded, while 38 percent said they would vote “no.”
The California state Legislature in August approved a measure that is set to go on a November special election ballot as Proposition 50, a proposed constitutional amendment. Proposition 50 would allow for new congressional maps detailed in a separate bill, which could result in five Democratic pickup opportunities in the House.
The current congressional districts, created by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission during the last census, would be bypassed until the commission creates a new map in 2031.
The amendment proposal cites President Trump’s call for states led by Republicans “to undertake an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting of congressional seats to rig the 2026 United States midterm elections before voting begins,” the text reads.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who has seen her star rise as a prominent combative voice for the Democrats in recent months, praised California’s redistricting plan in a video from September and urged residents to back the push, which comes in the wake of Texas’s successful changes to its own congressional map that will help the Republican Party.
“California, you know we don’t back down from a fight. And this November, the fight belongs to you. Donald Trump is redrawing election maps to force through a Congress that only answers to him, not the people,” Ocasio-Cortez said, referring to Proposition 50.
Eleven percent of respondents to the CBS News/YouGov poll said the reasoning behind their Proposition 50 vote involved supporting Trump, while 51 percent said it involved opposing him.
The CBS News/YouGov poll reached 1,504 registered voters from Oct. 16-21, with a margin of error of around plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.