The proposition that led to California’s enacting of the “fair” redistricting was originally funded by conservatives who wanted to improve their chances, and came somewhat as a response to discussion around Texas’ 2003 redistricting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Texas_redistricting

At the time that California’s redistricting amendment was being discussed, as the obvious Republican “trick” to benefit them in California, many called out the hypocrisy of only advocating for it where it’d help, and explicitly fighting where it’d hurt them. (Hilariously, after the California amendment drew up new “fair” districts, in the next election that used them the Republicans still lost seats in California, just due to them being so generally hated at the time).

So yeah, their hypocrisy on this matter has been called out many times. But they are shameless, and frankly cannot win long-term with a “fair” electoral system.

Possibly many polled Sliwa supporters actually voted for Cuomo instead, to try to prevent a Mamdani win.

Wait, do you mean that ballroom that is $500m?

Only the proper candidates win, as a rule

Was Trump winning an example of that rule, or a counterexample?