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It’s Arnold Vs. Gavin: Schwarzenegger Vows To ‘terminate’ Gerrymandering

SACRAMENTO, California — Arnold Schwarzenegger is joining the growing list of California Republicans getting off the bench to help in the fight against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting gambit.

The former governor has been teasing a return to politics for the redistricting campaign, as POLITICO reported exclusively earlier this month, but in a post on X Friday, he made his position on Newsom’s plan abundantly clear.

Schwarzenegger wrote that he was “getting ready for the gerrymandering battle” while hitting the chest press machine in a shirt that read, “F*** THE POLITICIANS TERMINATE GERRYMANDERING.”

The post comes as the state awaits a formal proposal for newly drawn congressional maps to create more Democratic districts.

Seemingly every Republican in California is jumping into the fight. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is leading the fundraising effort and hype machine against Newsom’s campaign, as POLITICO reported Thursday.

Alongside former state Republican Party chair Jessica Millan Patterson and operative Tom Ross, McCarthy said he’s planning to raise more than $100 million for the opposition campaign. That will be in addition to a reported $30 million pledge from Charles Munger Jr., a champion for the state’s independent redistricting commission.

That redistricting commission exists in large part because of Schwarzenegger. Over a decade ago, he pushed for two constitutional amendments that created the commission before campaigning for similar ones in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio.

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It’s Arnold Vs. Gavin: Schwarzenegger Vows To ‘terminate’ Gerrymandering

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