And that’ll be 55 fewer electoral votes for the next democrat presidential candidate.
California should be at least divided in two and preferably three.
The Eastern part of the state would reliably produce Republican electoral votes. They end up being swamped since it's a winner take all vote currently.
A third state in the South would probably still go Democrat since Los Angeles is 80% Mexican now, but after a few years of relentless immigration enforcement that will change.
In which case the San Francisco Communists will find themselves isolated.
And we can always send in the 82nd Airborne to retake that part of California.