Source: SFGate
“Arnold Schwarzenegger has spent the better part of the past decade out of politics, but California’s fight over redistricting has suddenly thrust the Hollywood star and former governor back into the arena as the Republicans clamor for his help. As California governor Schwarzenegger helped create a nonpartisan process in 2010 to draw ‘fair and equal’ congressional district lines that Gov. Gavin Newsom is now attempting to temporarily dismantle. Republicans are hoping the former bodybuilder can help convince people to vote against Newsom’s Proposition 50, the November ballot measure that asks voters to approve the new Democrat-favoring map, a last-ditch attempt to counter gerrymandering taking place in Texas. Schwarzenegger is, according to one poll, the most popular Republican in the country, and Republican strategists have said the former bodybuilder is ‘uniquely positioned’ to fight Prop. 50 and that ‘it would be huge’ to have Schwarzenegger directly on the campaign.” (09/13/25)