Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure.

The Department of Justice announced Friday that it would deploy personnel to polling sites in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,” ahead of the state’s Nov. 4 special election.

In an interview with KQED’s Political Breakdown, Newsom said the move was a “setup” for the Trump administration to cast doubt on the potential victory of Proposition 50 — a plan to redraw the state’s congressional district lines to advantage Democrats.

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    18 hours ago

    My guy, the Republican Party is MAGA. There’s nothing to go back to. It has been irreversibly transformed.

    I’ll set aside other comments I want to make. But it’s important to realize that point.

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      No, the arent. And if you think that, really think that, youre a culture war moron thats had your brain rotted by the reddit echo chamber.

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          9 hours ago

          In name only. This place has been flooded with reddit pricks who got banned for being too fucking stupid not to wish death on people in a open forum, just because they happen to disagree on an issue.