Millions of dollars are expected in political television ads to begin to be broadcast on Tuesday in an effort to influence Californians to a November voting measure that seeks to send more Democrats to Congress and counteract President Trump and the Agenda of the Republican Party, according to the purchases of Television Air Time.
The Special Elections Voting measure, Prop. 50, will probably shape the control of the United States Representatives Chamber and will determine the fate of many of Trump's extreme right policies.
The opposition to the rare redistribution of districts from the middle of the California decade has reserved more than $ 10 million in air time for advertisements between September and 23 in the media markets throughout the state, according to buyers of the media that are not affiliated with any of the campaigns. The effort supporters have bought at least $ 2 million in ads as of Tuesday, a number is expected to grow exponentially, since they try aggressively to ensure time in the coming weeks in transmission and cable television.
“This early beginning is a bit stealthy by the No Side, but it has been used as a ploy in past campaigns to try to show early strength and obtain advantage when forcing to the opposite side to catch up,” said Sheri Sadler, a veteran Democratic political media agent who does not work for any campaign. “This promises to be an expensive campaign for a special choice, especially starting so early.”
Millions of dollars have already fluid in the nascent campaigns that were formed to the extent of voting special elections of November 4 that calls for voters to leave aside the limits of the congress extracted in 2021 by the Redistribution Commission of Independent Districts of California. The panel was created by state voters in 2010 to stop the protection of Gerrymandering and holder by both important political parties.
The campaign will be a sprint: the emails of multiple bright pages will reach the mailboxes of the Californians before the state legislature voted at the end of August to call the special elections. Voters will begin to receive tickets by early October.
The redistribution of districts, typically an esoteric process that takes place once a decade after the census of the United States, is receiving an unusual level of attention due to partisan efforts to incline the control of the congress in the medium -term elections next year. Republicans have a narrow advantage in the United States representatives, but the party that wins the White House control often loses seats in Congress in the following elections.
Earlier this summer, Trump asked the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott to reduce the districts of the Congress of his state to add five members of the Republican Party to the Chamber, digging up a arms redistribution career of weapons throughout the country. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, launched a campaign to re -draw the districts of the State Congress in an effort to increase the number of Democrats in Congress, denying Texas profits for Republicans, but must be approved by voters.
The coalition that opposes the effort is an intriguing mixture: former Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the rich Republican donor Charles Muager Jr., the former president of the Republican Party Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfieldfield, assemblyman Alex Lee (D-San José), president of the progressive legislative Caucus, and Gloria Chun Hoo, president of the League League of the League of the Messia).
Many partisans, in both political parties, opposed the redistribution of independent districts when he was defended by Schwarzenegger and Muger in 2010.
Jessica Millan Patterson, the former president of the State Republican Party who leads McCarthy's effort to oppose the new limits of Congress, turned when asked about dissonance. The voters, he said, made clear their choice at the polls about their preference for an independent commission to draw districts of the Congress instead of sacrament politicians.
“The people of California have spoken,” he said, adding that most voters agree that an independent commission is preferable to partisan politicians by drawing districts.
The Committee “Stop Sacramento's Power AAD” that Patterson leads the plans to focus on conservative voters and center law, and will be well financed, he said.
McCarthy was a prodigious fund collector, while in Congress and his old friend, the largest collector of Republican funds Jeff Miller, he is raising money to oppose the measure of the vote.
Schwarzenegger is not part of McCarthy's effort, but supports the good governance message of the Mungger team. Patterson argues that anything that the former governor does only attract more attention to his shared goal, even if he is not part of his effort.
“Governor Schwarzenegger is Governor Schwarzenegger,” said Patterson, pointing out an X publication of the global celebrity with a shirt that says “Finish Gerrymandering” while we worked on August 15. “He is a celebrity, a type of box office. He assures that reasonable people know that we do not want to put this power in which I put in the sacrament.
Schwarzenegger has long defended political reform. During his last year as Governor, he prioritized the measure of the vote that created a redistribution of districts of the Independent Congress. Since he left office, he made good governance a priority in his institute at the University of Southern California and campaigned for the redistribution of independent districts throughout the country.
“These are some of the things that are more popular than Congress: hemorrhoids, nickel, traffic jams, cockroaches, root duct, colonoscopies, herpes,” said Schwarzenegger in a 2017 Facebook video. “Even herpes could not beat herpes in the surveys.”
According to the reports, the former governor is supporting Munger's effort, son of a billionaire, who financed the measure of the electoral ballot that created independent districts of the Congress in 2010. Mumer has donated more than $ 10 million to an effort that was opposed to the measure of the November vote; The organization that financed has reserved more than $ 10 million in television places until September 23.
“These ads are the beginning of the effort of our campaign to communicate directly with voters about the dangers of allowing politicians to choose their voters and abandon our process of redistribution of districts directed by standard gold citizens,” said Amy Thoma, spokesman for the first voter coalition backed by Muger.
The supporters of the effort to re -draw the districts argued that the Republicans are trying to consolidate the control of the Republican Party of the Nation's policies.
“Trump compiled … are spending big to defeat [Prop.] 50 and help Trump handle the 2026 elections before a single person [has] Voted, “said Hannah Milgrom, a spokeswoman for the campaign.” They are spending great, and early, to deceive California voters to allow Trump to maintain total control over the federal government for two more years. ”
