California Governor Gavin Newsom is betting everything on his biblical, eye-for-an-eye campaign to offset Texas’s proposed congressional redistricting with an equally gerrymandered map of his own—his presidential ambitions, the potential future of the party, and a whole lot of money. The statewide ballot initiative is expected to cost at least $200 million, according to multiple political operatives. “The cost of the initiative will be exponentially greater than the cost if all sides played in those districts in 2026,” said a Republican who works on House races, citing the high number of expensive media markets that blanket the state. “You’re going to see cycle-wide spending on an initiative one year before the actual election cycle.”