'It's all at stake': As Prop. 50 fight intensifies, Newsom, partisan influencers rally their bases

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and a slew of political influencers held an hours-long virtual rally Tuesday afternoon, urging Californians to support Proposition 50 in the Nov. 4 special election. California’s congressional districts are drawn by a voter-approved independent commission once a decade after the U.S. census. AdvertisementCohen argued that people like him had been “begging” Democrats to fight Trump. And now elected officials had done their part by getting Proposition 50 on the ballot, he said, urging viewers to donate to support the effort. “They want to get rid of it under the auspices of we have to fight Trump,” Schwarzenegger said.