California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday sent a letter to President Donald Trump threatening to redistrict his state unless Republicans in red states agree to call off plans to redraw their congressional district maps.

Trump said in an interview with CNBC last week that Texas Republicans are “entitled” to redrawing their congressional district maps to give themselves five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives because California is gerrymandered in favor of Democrats.

White House spokesman Steven Cheung later called Newsom “a loser of the highest order” in an interview, adding that he will “never be president no matter how hard he prostitutes himself to the press.”

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