Highlights from Gavin Newsom's "Sunday Morning" interview: Proposition 50, opposing Trump, and 2028

Sunday Morning Highlights from Gavin Newsom's "Sunday Morning" interview: Proposition 50, opposing Trump, and 2028 .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-sunday-morning.jpg'); } By David Morgan Updated on: October 26, 2025 / 1:03 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google In an exclusive interview with Robert Costa for "CBS Sunday Morning," California Governor Gavin Newsom described the Democrats' redistricting in his state as an effort to ensure "the future of this republic" – and a necessary measure to counter President Trump's push to expand Republican gains in the U.S. House and secure its narrow majority.  The vote on Proposition 50 this November 4 was just one of the issues the Democrat discussed, including his own plans for the 2028 election. Proposition 50Newsom has been stumping across his state advocating for redistricting, in response to President Trump's redistricting push in Republican-controlled states, like Texas.Rather than gerrymander districts in the state legislature, as Texas did, California is putting a ballot initiative, Proposition 50, before the voters on November 4 in order to allow for redistricting in next year's midterm election. If Proposition 50 succeeds next week, Democrats will change the boundaries of U.S. House districts in California, making it easier for their party to win up to five more seats. (The state currently has 43 U.S. House seats held by Democrats, and 9 by Republicans.) Newsom is framing the effort as something about more than California's Congressional delegation, but about oversight of the Trump administration. "I think it's about our democracy," he said. "It's about the future of this republic. I think it's about, you know, what the founding fathers lived and died for, this notion of the rule of law, and not the rule of Don. This rule of popular sovereignty fundamentally, of co-equal branches of government, system of checks and balances.Newsom believes that if his pa...