Seema, you get to take the story from there, okay?

The difference between Texas and California is that in California, Governor Newsom had to take it to the voters because California voters in 2010 created an independent commission to draw fairer maps.

And people largely praised the independent commission for their work.

And they spent a lot of time after every census drawing maps that represent communities of interest.

And so that's why, you know, Governor Newsom had to take Proposition 50 to the voters because he couldn't just unilaterally redrop the maps, even though there's a lot of questions in Sacramento about who drew the maps.

And then voters, the way they messed the pro-Prop 50, it was smart in terms of making it about President Trump and his efforts to, you know, hold on to control of Congress, a very tightly divided Congress.

And the anti-folks sort of try to make it about a good government issue.

Seema, is that happening in California? Are you writing about it?

Give me your sense of the biggest couple changes that you've seen in California politics since you've been covering the last generation.

There's a couple of different.

I mean, there's, first of all, ownership of our paper as well as other papers.

You know, we used to be owned by a family, the Chandlers, you know, that had owned it for, you know, I want to say more than a century.

I could be off on the number.

Then we were bought by or sold to a media company that put in some great editors at first, but then really started cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting.

And then we were bought by a billionaire who at first was really invested in the newsroom, but now has made a lot of cuts.

Leaving the earth.

And it's almost like there was no deep reservoir of support for him.

Right.

I mean, I think there's a couple things going on there.

I think there have long been, and people have talked about this, you know, in D.C., there have long been rumors about him, you know, being... perhaps inappropriate, you know, flirty with younger staff members, with younger people on the Hill.

But I think that the news that broke, you know, a couple of days before he dropped out of the governor's race was so much beyond what people had heard.

It wasn't just somebody being kind of like a lech.

It wasn't just somebody being overly flirty.

So I'm not going to say predict the unpredictable, but basically, is it fair to say that voters are now starting to pay attention?