Los Angeles – Arnold Schwarzenegger participated in a national fight against U.S. House control on Monday, urging voters to reject California’s voting proposal to revoke what he said, saying he would erode democratic principles and allow politicians to “take power from the people.”
“It’s crazy, a November voting initiative to add five Democratic Democratic seats to offset the president,” the former Republican governor and action movie star said of Democratic support claims 50. Donald Trump’s Texas moved to five Republican districts in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“It doesn’t make any sense to me because we have to fight trump card,become trump card” Schwarzenegger explain. “Two mistakes have no right.”
The proposal, championed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, will temporarily shelve the districts formulated by the Independent National Commission and replace them with a huge reshaping district drafted by the Democratic Party and aims to benefit the party’s candidates.
If approved, the new political map could strengthen Democratic incumbents in other battlefield areas in the 2026 midterm elections, while cutting five Republican-owned home seats. This could increase the Democratic margins to 48 of California’s 52 congressional seats, which the party now has 43 seats.
Speaking at the University of Southern California Schwarzenegger It has been repeatedly stressed that the proposal would shelve the maps he drew in public proceedings as the independent committee for the promotion of the governor and replaced them with a closed-door partisan map, blessed by “politicians.” He never directly criticized Newsom or the democratic majority in the legislature, which endorsed the proposal.
Schwarzenegger A signal sent last month that he will actively oppose the voting proposal, posting photos of himself lifting weights on social platform X on a t-shirt with slogans, “End Gerrymandering” and a lewd obscene film designed to “politicians.”
“I’m preparing for the fight for Gerrymandering,” he wrote.
But it is unclear how the wealthy former governor and a bodybuilding champion will be on the campaign, where he can fund advertising and use his global celebrities to influence voters. SchwarzeneggerThe centrist is a long-time critic of Trump, who believes the parties need to get out of the extremes to break the Washington deadlock.
Still, he remains a powerful political presence after leaving the office 15 years later.
“I don’t think you want to meet Arnold SchwarzeneggerBill Whalen, a researcher at Stanford’s right-leaning Hoover Institution, said.
California and Texas – two of the most populous states in the United States – have become the center of the House of Representatives’ partisan turf war, which is entering other states, as well as courts involved in the proxy war ahead of the 2026 election.
Newsom takes the game as trump cardjust as Republicans seek to maintain the party’s slim House majority.
“We can’t back down and watch this area where democracy disappears,” said Newsom, of the 2028 presidential contender. Los Angeles Rally last month. “Donald Trumpyou have poked the bear, we will call it back. ”
