Obama’s comments appear in a new video supporting Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50 which would allow the California legislature to draw new congressional boundaries ahead of the midterms

Barack Obama has entered the political fray ahead of November’s special election in California, accusing Republicans of attempting to “rig the next election” in a new ad backing Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, a ballot measure that could reshape the state’s congressional map.

“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years,” Obama says in the 30-second ad, urging voters to approve the proposal. “You can stop Republicans in their tracks.”

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    I’ve been watching republicans do illegal things my entire life. Nobody has ever stopped them

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      Some judges have.

      Some people like the ACLU and Marc Elias have.

      Etc.

      Stopped all illegal things they do? No. But many real people have stopped many real things.

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    Reading the comments, it seems a lot of people here are totally fine to make good the enemy of perfect and repeat history all over again.

    Enjoy the fascism folks. We’re in it for the long haul it seems.

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      People want more people lime Zohran. Where is Zohran endorsment? Enjoy facism folks

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      Welcome to the left. A leftist’s favorite passtime is telling other people that they are not left enough. They’d tell Karl Marx he isn’t left enough if he lost his right arm. Drives me nuts.

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      The US requires a hard reset imo. The US political discourse is heavily biased towards the right causing the ratchet effect and muddies the pool of water of ideas. Liberals and progressives can’t get along because the term socialism in the country has been heavily demonized, that socialists and progressives alike have no choice but to side with the pseudo-left party that is the Democratic Party. The party exploits the lack of choice to be complacent and provide bread crumb policies. Meanwhile, conservatives and the right typically prefer order in spite of differences, so they tend to have stronger voting cohesion to elect the Republican party.

      The US requires a hard reset so that the two party system is rid of and political variety will blossom. Actually popular policies will be enacted and not demonized. Progressives could decouple from the Democratic party and finally call themselves socialists without the taboo. And moderate conservatives could dissociate themselves from the far right. However, this hard reset could mean a lead up to a civil war and the only people who would benefit from this are Russia and China.

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        No. I’m just now explaining that those who chose not to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

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    When are you going to endorse Zohran and new bloods of couragous young democrats trying to reshape the party?

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    Wheeew boy. I just spent some time in progressive politics and jeez. They literally say Obama is the SAME level of evil as Hitler and Kamala is FAR right. This place seems so much more realistic.

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    Quit trying to make Newsome happen

    It’s really fucking tone deaf to push a Zionist in the face of cratering support for Israel among Democratic voters.

    But then the Democratic party has a history of being tone deaf, like Biden picking Kamala “top cop” Harris for vp during the height of the George Floyd protests.

    Biden won, but these stunts often fail.

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      If someone isn’t capable of making the easy call to be against genocide, then they absolutely can’t be trusted to be defenders of democracy.

      We gotta quit pretending it’s about this one issue or that one issue. Over and over again we see that there are politicians committed to fighting for what’s right, and there are politicians who aren’t. That’s it. That’s the line. The politicians that sell out to AIPAC are selling out to big tech, to Wall Street, to the military industrial complex, etc.

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        Yes, Obama, who was okay, bombing people in the middle east, many of which were innocent, doesn’t care about the, innocent people, in the US.

        If they care, they should be in the front line protesting the shit show of the ICE. They are the one that cannot be touch by Trump and his government. He is the one who doesn’t fear losing his life nor does he fear losing his income.

        These people are out of touch, they hope Trump do as much damage so they can get voted in without the need to listen to their voters.

        It is like a divorce kid, where both parents are abuser. One of which doesn’t abuse you as much as knows that the other is worst.

        People and Unions should break this abusive cycle.

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    I like how it’s still “accuses” and is not “confirming” after all the actions taken by project 2025 ghouls to rig the election since orange man waddled back up to the white house

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    The voting machines now in Republican control are a give away that they will rig the elections. We should have the UN look at how the ballots are processed in this coming election just to be sure.

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    Until FPTP becomes Proportional Representation I will assume all current and previous us presidents have/are Rigging The Next Election.

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      I mean, you’re right, just for the wrong reasons.

      Elections are rigged through disenfranchisement, misinformation, and gerrymander. FPTP isn’t an issue when the people on the ballot are all corporate flaks.

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    I love how the majority of comments here didn’t even read the whole headline, let alone the article, before confidently spouting whatever they already thought.

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    Maybe it’s just me but it almost seems like OP was trying to make this title seem bad as if it’s not the truth.