Taking on President Trump isn't new for Governor Newsom, but imitating the President on social media is. Newsom's trolling the last few weeks has been extra spicy, timed around the launch of the campaign for an issue that's the opposite of spicy, redistricting.

The California governor is adopting a combative social-media persona as well as partisan gerrymandering to counter the president.

After Texas and California, the legislative action in a nationwide redistricting battle is set to move to Missouri and three other Republican-led states.

- California Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state's Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, Calif.,

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the proposed partisan redistricting that favors Democrats is a necessary counterweight to President Trump's threat to American democracy.