California should not have 53 House seats. Many states have one.
It’s past time to relieve California of all representation in the House and Senate. It’s far too extreme to be part of these United States. One of their reps wants to nuke citizens if they don’t give up their constitutionally guaranteed right to own firearms.
It’s the right thing to do. Put it on probation to get rid of its illegals and sanctuary cities.
We have 40 million people here. That is 12% of the US population.
How many should we have?
I don’t like what’s happened to my state anymore than any other conservative Republican, but like it or not, the Constitution provides that we have this many reps.
Do the math.
14 states now have all-Dem control (Gov, Senate, House)... and yet 23 states are still all-GOP controlled. (MN is the only state with split Houses... but 13 still have a different-party Governor.)
Governorships: the GOP lost 7, and gained 1... and are still ahead 27-23
The GOP Senate lost AZ and NEV (and maybe MISS... NOV 27 runoff)... and yet gained ND, IN, FL, and MO... +1 or +2 overall.
The GOP House lost 36 seats (maybe up to 40... lawyers are still finding magic ballots in 4 races)... which is about average... compare to Clinton's first midterm (-52) and Obama's first midterm losses (-63).... as well as Ford (-48), LBJ (-47), GWB2 (-30), Reagan1 (-26), Carter (-15), etc.
The House is now (at worst) 235-200.... yet the Dems had 254 for Obama's first 2 years, and had at least 242, and as many as 292, for almost four decades, from 1959 to 1995.
Outside of the West Coast (CA 42-2, OR 4-0, and WA 6-1) and the Northeast Corridor (greater NYC 16-2, MD 9-1, CT 5-0, RI 1-0, VT 1-0, NH 2-0, ME 2-0, MASS 9-0, NJ 11-1, DEL 1-0), it's at worst 117-193
There will be at least 104 new faces out of the 435 in the 116th Congress... about 1/4 of all of of the seats... a pretty big victory for those who wanted to "Drain the Swamp"